Tinkle vs Knock - What's the difference?
tinkle | knock |
To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
* Dodsley
(intransitive, informal, juvenile) To urinate.
To cause to tinkle.
To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
* Dryden
A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) , ch. 2:
(UK, informal) A telephone call.
(informal, euphemism) An act of urination.
An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood
An impact.
(figurative) criticism
* 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
(cricket) a batsman's innings.
(automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition or the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
(dated) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
(dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
* Shakespeare
(ambitransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
(colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
(soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
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As verbs the difference between tinkle and knock
is that tinkle is to make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell while knock is (dated) to rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.As nouns the difference between tinkle and knock
is that tinkle is a light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes while knock is an abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.tinkle
English
Verb
(tinkl)- The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
- The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
- The butler tinkled dinner.
- And his ears tinkled , and the colour fled.
Noun
(en noun)- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. . . . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
- Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
knock
English
Noun
(en noun)- I heard a knock on my door.
- He took a knock on the head.
- Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.
- He played a slow but sure knock of 35.
Verb
(en verb)- Knock on the door and find out if they're home.
- Master, knock the door hard.
- I knocked against the table and bruised my leg.
- I accidentally knocked my drink off the bar.
- "The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go."
- Don't knock it until you've tried it.
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