verb
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To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.
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To give out a clang; to resound.
noun
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A noise that clangs.
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A mode of speech (or writing) characterized by compulsive association of words based upon sound rather than meaning.
Examples of clanging in a Sentence
You can sing but you will be a clanging cymbal.
The sounds and scents of battle were thick in the air, from clanging of metal to cries of the injured to the smell of heated bodies.
When the MRI machine is scanning, the child hears loud clanging and whirring noises.
The old count's troyka, with Dimmler and his party, started forward, squeaking on its runners as though freezing to the snow, its deep-toned bell clanging.
The barge docked with a rusty clanging noise that caused an undulation in the tarpaulin covering the deck.
Tongues were, he felt, to cease whenever the perfect should come; and the believer who spoke with the tongues of men and of angels, if he had not love, was no better than the sounding brass and clanging cymbal of the noisy heathen mysteries.