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# clanging

«clanging» in Mova's school dictionary: **making a loud ringing sound of metal hitting metal, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (clang, clangs, clanged, clanging) — -ing form; adjective (clanging); noun (the clanging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Clanging is making a loud ringing sound of metal hitting metal, like a bell, a pan or a gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/#m1)

2) A clanging sound is loud, harsh and ringing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/#m2)

3) (idiom, informal) A clanger or a clanging mistake is a big, embarrassing mistake (from «drop a clanger»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, clanging bells, gates and pans set the scene: a clanging fire bell, a clanging prison door. In science lessons about sound, metal objects clang when they vibrate. It tells the reader the noise is loud and metallic. Phrases: «clanging bells», «the clanging of pots», «clang shut».

### examples

- The fire engine came clanging down the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/#x1)
- The iron gate was clanging in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/#x2)
- I heard the clanging of pots and pans in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/#x3)
- The school bell was clanging loudly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/#x4)
- The heavy door clanged shut behind the prisoner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/#x5)
- The clanging of the hammer on the metal hurt my ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/#x6)

### note

Clang is an onomatopoeia (a word that sounds like its noise), like bang and ding. Regular verb: clanged, clanging. «Drop a clanger» (UK) means make an embarrassing mistake.

### In the corpora

- [Paul wrote that without love a person is only «a clanging cymbal», however great their gifts and knowledge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/20-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love/15/)
- [Praise Him with the loud-sounding cymbals; praise Him with the clanging cymbals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2695/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clanging» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clanging/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.