Metallic vs Jangle - What's the difference?
metallic | jangle |
A color
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To make a rattling metallic sound.
To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound.
* Shakespeare
To irritate.
To quarrel in words; to wrangle.
* Shakespeare
* Carlyle
A rattling metallic sound.
* Longfellow
(obsolete) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
As nouns the difference between metallic and jangle
is that metallic is a color while jangle is a rattling metallic sound.As a adjective metallic
is made of, appearing to be made of, resembling, or related to metal.As a verb jangle is
to make a rattling metallic sound.metallic
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Alternative forms
* metallick (obsolete)Derived terms
* intermetallic * metallically * metallicityNoun
(en noun)citation
jangle
English
Verb
- Like sweet bells jangled , out of tune, and harsh.
- The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.
- Good wits will be jangling ; but, gentles, agree.
- Prussian Trenck jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
Noun
(en noun)- the musical jangle of sleigh bells
- (Chaucer)
