Word Meanings - JANGLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Producing discordant sounds. "A jangling noise." Milton.

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• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• JANGLERESS
  A female prater or babbler.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• 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.
• JANGLERY
  Jangling. Chaucer.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• NOISELESS
  Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
• NOISEFUL
  Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
• JANGLE
  or German origin; cf. D. jangelen, janken, to whimper, chide, brawl, 1. To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune. 2. To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer. 3. To quarrel in words;
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• PRODUCTRESS
  A female producer.
• PRODUCER'S SURPLUS; PRODUCER'S RENT
  Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.
• NOISETTE
  A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses
• JANGLING
  Producing discordant sounds. "A jangling noise." Milton.
• PRODUCT
  The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• REPRODUCE
  To produce again. Especially: To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. To cause to exist again. Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• CHINOISERIE
  Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.