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  • //klɪŋk//

The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.

sustantivo

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    The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.

    You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.

    1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.

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    Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

Etimología

From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (“to sound; resound”)), from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound”). Cognates include Middle Dutch klinken and German klingen. Related to cling (sound) and clang. May be further related to call. Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.

verbo

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    To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

    The hammers clinked on the stone all night.

    The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, / Unlifted was the clinking latch, / Weeded and worn the ancient thatch / upon the lonely moated grange.

    Never you mind if I / Don't tell strangers passing by / If I don't brag / If I don't brag or boast / Clink my glass and say a toast / About my love for you / How it runs so deep and true

    Driftwood chimes made by Deirdre clinked their music in the breeze, and neatly tended beds—kept so by me—brimmed with flowers and herbs in the surrounding garden.

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    anticuadoTo rhyme.

sustantivo

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    anticuadoA prison.

    If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.

Etimología

From the Clink prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.

verbo

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    To clinch; to rivet.

Formas

plural
clinks
pasado
clinked
participio
clinked
gerundio
clinking
3.ª persona del singular
clinks
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