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# din

«din» in Mova's school dictionary: **A loud, long, unpleasant noise, often from many sounds…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a din, uncountable in general)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A loud, long, unpleasant noise, often from many sounds together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/din/#m1)

2) (verb, rare: din, dins, dinned, dinning) To din something into someone means to make them learn it by repeating it again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/din/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday life a din is the noise of a busy playground, a building site or a crowded canteen; it tells the reader the place is noisy and hard to think in; phrases: «make a din», «above the din», «what a din!», «din it into someone».

### examples

- The children made a terrible din in the dining hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/din/#x1)
- We could hardly hear the teacher above the din. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/din/#x2)
- What a din! Turn that music down! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/din/#x3)
- The din of the traffic kept me awake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/din/#x4)
- The parrots made a great din at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/din/#x5)
- Mum dinned it into us to look both ways before crossing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/din/#x6)
- The din of hammers came from next door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/din/#x7)

### note

Usually «a din» or «the din»; no plural in normal use. Short and old word. Not the same as «dinner»; and «din-dins» is baby talk for dinner.

### Trees and pragmatics

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