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# tinkle

«tinkle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a light, high ringing sound, like small bells** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (tinkles); verb (tinkle, tinkles, tinkled, tinkling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tinkle is a light, high ringing sound, like small bells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinkle/#m1)

2) To tinkle is to make such a sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinkle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales golden bells or coins make a pretty tinkling sound

### examples

- The loveliest tinkle of golden bells answered him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinkle/#x1)
- The coins tinkled in my pocket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinkle/#x2)
- I heard a tinkle of bells in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinkle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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