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Definition: Clanking |
ClankingAdjective1. Having a hard nonresonant metallic sound; "clanking chains"; "the clanking arms of the soldiers near him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clanking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of coliginious junk (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf) | |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Clanking bell. | | Keys clanking together; wooden chair sliding against a linoleum floor. |
| Three reverberating, jangling tones; clangor; clanking. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He stepped on the starter and the clanking flywheel turned over, the engine caught and died, and caught again |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Clanking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 70.27% of the time. "Clanking" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 70.27% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.92% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "clanking": clink-clanking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clanking | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clanking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | kalske (clatter). (various references) | |
German | klirrend (chinking, clanging, clashing, jingling, rattling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csörgő (clanky, globular bell, rattle, rattling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankingclay.(various references) | |
Romanian | zornãitor, zornãit (Bicker, chink, jingle), zãngãnit (chink, clang, clangour, clank, clash, clatter, rasp), zãngãnealã (clashing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clanking": clankingly. (additional references) | |
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"Clanking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clankings, Claonaig, Clarkin, clencing, clening. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clanking" (pronounced kla"ngking) |
| 6 | -l a" ng k i ng | blanking, flanking, planking. |
| 5 | -a" ng k i ng | banking, cranking, franking, nonbanking, ranking, spanking, tanking, thanking, yanking. |
| 4 | -ng k i ng | blinking, debunking, drinking, flunking, honking, junking, linking, plinking, plunking, reinking, rethinking, shrinking, sinking, stinking, unthinking, winking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flicking, flocking, forking, forsaking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, plucking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shucking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tasking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-k-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: ankling, calking, lacking, lancing. | |
-2 letters: caking, calkin, caning, lacing, laking. | |
-3 letters: acing, algin, align, clang, clank, cling, clink, kiang, liang, ligan, linac, linga. | |
-4 letters: agin, akin, anil, cain, calk, clag, clan, gain, gink, glia, ilka, kail, kain, kiln, kina, king, lack, laic, lain, lang, lank, lick, ling, link, linn, nail, nick. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ani. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-k-l-n-n" | |
+1 letter: crankling. | |
+2 letters: blackening, clankingly, slackening, uncloaking. | |
+3 letters: blackenings, linebacking, unshackling. | |
+4 letters: linebackings. | |
+5 letters: acknowledging, stickhandling. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Sounds 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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