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Definition: Clanging |
ClangingAdjective1. Having a loud resonant metallic sound; "the clangorous locomotive works"; "a clanging gong". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clanging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonym: ClangingSynonym: clangorous (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: clang association (medicine). |
Crosswords: Clanging |
| English words defined with "clanging": clangorous. (references) |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Clanging of a metal pot falling to the floor . | | Clanging cow bell. |
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Nancy Grace | What Corinthians said is, Without love, you are nothing. That is plain and simple. All the noise and the yelling and the clanging cymbals I've heard comes from right over there. And what I want to do is calmly go through the evidence with you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Clanging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.86% of the time. "Clanging" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 64.86% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.62% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clanging | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clanging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | klirrend (chinking, clanking, clashing, jingling, rattling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | zengő (clangorous, resounding, rich, ringing), kongó (clangorous, plangent, ringing, tinkling), csengő (clangorous, clanking, clapper bell, ringing, sheep bell, tingling, tinkler, tinkling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | angingclay zãngãnitor. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Clanging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Claonaig, clening, cliging, Llangian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clanging" (pronounced kla"nging) |
| 4 | -a" ng i ng | banging, ganging, hanging, haranguing. |
| 3 | -ng i ng | belonging, bringing, clinging, flinging, longing, mudslinging, overhanging, prolonging, ringing, singing, slinging, springing, stinging, stringing, swinging, upbringing, winging, wringing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: glancing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-g-i-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: angling, lancing. | |
-2 letters: caging, caning, gingal, lacing. | |
-3 letters: acing, aging, algin, align, clang, cling, liang, ligan, linac, linga. | |
-4 letters: agin, anil, cain, clag, clan, gain, gang, giga, glia, laic, lain, lang, ling, linn, nail. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ani, can, cig, gag, gal, gan, gig, gin, inn, lac, lag, lin, nag, nan, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-g-i-l-n-n" | |
+2 letters: changeling, clangoring, congealing, ganglionic, glancingly. | |
+3 letters: anglicising, anglicizing, challenging, changelings, clangouring. | |
+4 letters: conglobating, unchangingly. | |
+5 letters: acknowledging, challengingly, encouragingly, glycerinating, preganglionic, rechallenging, unchallenging. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 61 6E 67 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. .- -. --. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l a n g i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0061 006E 0067 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3778678073758073 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | német, neamţ |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | Ungar, magyar, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumäne, román, român |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, angol, englezesc |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Sounds | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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