What's the difference between clack and plack?

Clack


Definition:

  • (n.) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
  • (n.) To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.
  • (v. t.) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • (v. t.) To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.
  • (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
  • (v. t.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
  • (v. t.) Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clack was also a keen sportsman, and represented the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and his battalion at rugby.
  • (2) The church panels that inspired the petitions’ design can be seen in a dimmed room at nearby Yirrkala art centre, where it’s rumoured you can also see the typewriter that clacked out the petition in English and Yolngu – another seminal achievement.
  • (3) Earlier that day, my husband had driven to Indianapolis on business, so Molly and I sat in my living room with our dogs and our laptops, drinking tea and clacking away for hours.
  • (4) "Lieutenant Clack not only made the ultimate sacrifice doing a job he loved, but he did so serving his country, defending the security of the United Kingdom and its people."
  • (5) Photograph: University Museum of Zoology Cambridge “It does appear that if there had been a ‘gap’ it was much smaller than previously thought, and might have affected some groups less severely than others,” Clack told me, talking about the disappearance of many species at the end of the Devonian.
  • (6) Davis gives her character a bone-clacking, head-wobbling walk; she is fragile as well as brittle, pulling rank on the help one minute and clinging to "Mummy" the next.
  • (7) A British officer killed by a Taliban bomb outside the gate of his base in Afghanistan has been named as Lieutenant Daniel Clack of 1st Battalion The Rifles.
  • (8) There was an extinction event for many fish species, but no-one is really sure what caused it.” Clack and her co-authors found evidence in their rock cores that fires burned throughout the Tournaisian, challenging previous theories that low atmospheric oxygen during the time period caused extinctions.
  • (9) Then a four for Fleming with a crisp clack through mid wicket.
  • (10) There are two [animals with five digits] that we know for certain: Pederpes , and an isolated foot found by our project,” Professor Jenny Clack, Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge, explained the evolution of limbs and digits to me.
  • (11) Defence secretary Liam Fox added: "I was very saddened to learn of the death of lieutenant Daniel Clack, a young man who, it is clear from the tributes paid, was an officer of great quality, both liked and respected by his men.
  • (12) Clack studied at Exeter University and worked as a driver for a ski firm in Switzerland before joining the army in 2009.
  • (13) Only one species, Pederpes finneyae , was previously named from this time period, but Clack and colleagues have named five new species, and found many more fossils too fragmentary to formally identify.
  • (14) Click, clack, pluckity ball from plinth, cheer, parp, wavity flag, cheer.
  • (15) Mary is running late, so on the tape you can hear Melanie and I chit-chatting about obscure French knitwear labels and nibbling the cookies she has brought along and cooing over Walter, Mary and Melanie's schnoodle (poodle-schnauzer cross – black, of course), and then suddenly in the background there is the unmistakable clack-clack-clack of someone hurrying in high heels and the noise of a door bursting open – all so exaggerated and theatrical it sounds, on the machine, like a radio play – and then Mary's booming, head-girl tones as she cuts off our conversation, shouting, "Lies!
  • (16) Clack, 24, was leading a 10-man patrol to meet locals in a nearby village in Helmand province when he was hit by an improvised explosive device.
  • (17) References Clack JA, Bennet CE, Carpenter DK, Davies SJ, Fraser NC, Kearsey TI, Marshall JEA, Millward D, Otoo BKA, Reeves EJ, Ross AJ, Ruta M, Smithson KZ, Smithson TR, Walsh SA.
  • (18) She talks to me over the loud click-clack of printing machines, and the chatter of around 40 campaigners, working the phones – as befits an operation located on a trading estate, this is truly industrial electioneering.
  • (19) I´m following your min by min report from an internet cafe in Montevideo bus station (no TV), while trying to send emails, and prepare myself for watching England in a bar full of Uruguayans," says Neil Clack.
  • (20) With a click-clack of studs on concrete, the teams walk out on to the pitch.

Plack


Definition:

  • (n.) A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are in group "A" 23 cases with 48 placks, in group "B" 14 cases with 23 placks.
  • (2) Likewise, difference can be found of the presence of placks partly in the two groups, partly in the point of view of the stages of Fontaine.
  • (3) Furthermore the stenosis--plack were analysed according to the severity of the lower limb artery disease.

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