Word Meanings - CLANG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLANG)

• Babel
• Hubbub
• confusion
• clamor
• jargon
• din
• discord
• clang
• Crash
• Jar
• clash
• resonance

Related words: (words related to CLANG)

• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• JARGON
  Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.
• CRASH
  To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.
• HUBBUB
  A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar. Milton. This hubbub of unmeaning words. Macaulay.
• CLANGOR
  A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.
• DISCORDOUS
  Full of discord.
• DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
  State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.
• CLASH
  1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent
• CLASH GEAR
  A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.
• DISCORDANT
  discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
• JARGONELLE
  A variety of pear which ripens early.
• CONFUSION
  1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• JARGONIC
  Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.
• CLANGOROUS
  Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
• JARGONIST
  One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.
• CLASHINGLY
  With clashing.
• CLANG
  Qualyty of tone. (more info) 1. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together. The broadsword's deadly clang, As if a thousand anvils rang. Sir W. Scott.
• CLANGOUS
  Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound.
• INCONFUSION
  Freedom from confusion; distinctness. Bacon.