English Dictionary

clang

/klæiŋ/

noun

A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other. / Quality of tone. / The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.

I heard a loud clang coming from the kitchen.

意味（1）

A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer

Came down upon her head

Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer Came down upon her head Clang, clang, Maxwell's silver hammer Made sure that she was dead

意味（2）

Quality of tone.

意味（3）

The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.

意味（4）

(psychology, psychiatry) A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.

For much of this day, Mrs Y. wrote in her diary, covering page after page in a rapid scrawl full of paligraphic repetitions, puns, clangs, and violent, perseverative crossings-out […]

意味（5）

(music) Alternative form of klang