CLANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clang mean? 

• CLANG (noun)
  The noun CLANG has 1 sense:

1. a loud resonant repeating noise

  Familiarity information: CLANG used as a noun is very rare.

• CLANG (verb)
  The verb CLANG has 1 sense:

1. make a loud noise

  Familiarity information: CLANG used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loud resonant repeating noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

clang; clangor; clangoring; clangour; clank; clash; crash

Context example:

he could hear the clang of distant bells

Hypernyms ("clang" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

clang (make a loud noise)

• CLANG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they clang    ... he / she / it clangs   
Past simple: clanged   
Past participle: clanged   
-ing form: clanging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a loud noise

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

clang; clangor

Context example:

clanging metal

Hypernyms (to "clang" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence examples:

Cars clang in the streets
The streets clang with cars

Derivation:

clang (a loud resonant repeating noise)

clanger (a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate)

clangor (a loud resonant repeating noise)

 Context examples 

In his hand he carried what appeared to be a stick, but as he laid it down upon the floor it gave a metallic clang.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The metallic clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bell clanged and the car pulled out, leaving Martin wondering as to the nature of the crinkly, greasy wad he clutched in his hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The world is given to them, and it resounds with the clang of their hammers and the ringing of their church bells.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly the silence was broken by a sharp, metallic clang. She screamed, jerking her eyes back to the table. The plate had fallen down.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Then there came the sound of many feet tramping and dying away in some passage which sent up a clanging echo.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then, when he sprang out upon it, it would transform itself into an electric car, menacing and terrible, towering over him like a mountain, screaming and clanging and spitting fire at him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I had risen from my seat and was knocking out the ashes of my pipe when I suddenly heard the clang of the bell.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I discerned in the course of the morning that Thornfield Hall was a changed place: no longer silent as a church, it echoed every hour or two to a knock at the door, or a clang of the bell; steps, too, often traversed the hall, and new voices spoke in different keys below; a rill from the outer world was flowing through it; it had a master: for my part, I liked it better.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

One by one he took out a succession of beautiful rifles, opening and shutting them with a snap and a clang, and then patting them as he put them back into the rack as tenderly as a mother would fondle her children.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)