What's the difference between clanger and cymbal?

Clanger


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Children will also be catered for with an adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s book Stick Man and festive editions of revived TV classics The Clangers and Danger Mouse.
  • (2) The comments stunned green Tories, with energy and climate change ministers shifting from talk of "world leadership" in the morning to "realism" in the afternoon, and party activists saying Osborne had dropped a clanger.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Clangers come on at the end of the CBeebies day, narrated by the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin.
  • (4) It’s better to get out before you reach your sell-by date.” Wince Philip: Prince's most famous comments and clangers Read more When was the right time?
  • (5) Here was the dullest of games with the liveliest of endings, thanks to clangers from each goalkeeper in the last 10 minutes of the match.
  • (6) When asked last month for her thoughts on another Clinton clanger – claiming that she and her husband, former president Bill, were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2000 – Warren reportedly “paused for a full 19 seconds” before saying: “Um, I was surprised.” Asked whether Clinton could plausibly speak on behalf of America’s poorest in a political fight against inequality, Sagrans said: “Obviously Hillary has been out and promoting her book, and promoting her, and doing a lot of these speeches.
  • (7) The 70s are sometimes referred to as the decade that style forgot, and some of the cliched clangers are present and correct in the final season on Sky Atlantic .
  • (8) Decision to "go early" may have been on legal advice but more and more looks like a clanger.
  • (9) The Duke of Edinburgh has shocked and sometimes delighted the public with his outspoken comments and clangers.
  • (10) Louis van Gaal dropped a clanger after Manchester United’s win over CSKA Moscow by getting Chris Smalling’s name wrong … again.
  • (11) ITV yesterday apologised for a clanger almost as big as England goalkeeper Robert Green's after 1.5 million fans watching the World Cup clash with the USA on the broadcaster's HD channel missed Steven Gerrard's fourth minute goal because of a "transmission error".
  • (12) Of course, MacMath couldn’t have timed Sunday’s clanger any worse, coming just hours after the official announcement of Howard’s signing.
  • (13) The pace slows, there are fewer multicoloured dinosaurs, and instead, you have the steady, lulling voice of Michael Palin narrating Clangers – about a family of pink, mouse-like creatures who live underground on another planet – followed by the unchanged, vital staple of In the Night Garden.
  • (14) a) Let sleeping Dallas lie b) I can’t wait for the new Clangers c) I pine for Bagpuss d) I miss gathering round the wireless Results Mostly a) Chill out, Flash Gordon.
  • (15) It was Ospina, though, who dropped the most nightmarish of clangers and it shone a harsh light on Wenger’s decision to persist with him in this competition at the expense of Cech.
  • (16) Whatever, he says, he made one of the great clangers in history.
  • (17) US writer Helen Boyd , author of My Husband Betty, lists 35 classic clangers, including: trans woman putting on makeup (two shots for reverse camera shot into mirror); showing "before" photos; any reference to genital surgery that includes "finally becoming a woman"; and anything with a trans woman sitting in an above-the-knee skirt, "posed so you can see what great gams she has".
  • (18) Despite Brown dropping a clanger in 2007 by abolishing the 10p tax rate, followed by the 2008 financial tsunami that hit our shores due to the earthquake of US sub-prime debt, it was Brown and Obama who engineered the fiscal stimulus.
  • (19) Being at the junction of the Eurasian, North American and African tectonic plates, the Azores are a geological hotspot: when seen from its highest point, each island is a Clanger-land of chimneys and craters where you could believe entire civilisations of sprites and elves live among the fat, dappled cows.
  • (20) And there’s the huge spanner that the euro crisis has thrown into the Scottish works – an even bigger clanger come 2017 if you think of Scotland pushing hard to join the EU just as England votes to leave.

Cymbal


Definition:

  • (n.) A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.
  • (n.) A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.
  • (n.) A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
  • (2) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
  • (3) Augmented by drummer Baby Jeff White, the sound is as loud as a landing 747 - each cymbal-crash a clean shot to the head.
  • (4) Where Blakey had stretched the rhythmic role of bop drums by intensifying the scattered offbeat patterns sown against the steady hi-hat and ride-cymbal pulse, Jones was dispensing with the "accompanist" role altogether, and envisaging a drum part as enhancing the playing of others and being a developing musical statement itself.
  • (5) His exclamatory sock-cymbal sound, often played at the turning point in a theme, or at the close, appeared to be struck with a dismissive blow like a boxer's right cross, and would be all the more arresting for its contrast with Jones's general demeanour of happiness in his work, smiling fit to bust, unleashing a stream of effusive - and highly rhythmic - chortles and grunts, sometimes eyeballing his partners with baleful amiability from the drum stool while intensifying the pressure, as if baiting them into bigger risks.
  • (6) For one, Jones appeared not to locate the focus of the beat in any single part of the kit for long, or use the steady ride cymbal pattern of the conventional jazz drummer or the steady, clapping snare-drum backbeat of the traditional rock player.
  • (7) It’s quite a jolly, memorable melody, punctuated with a lot of cymbals, which lock the melody down.
  • (8) The couples were of north African origin, and the Muslim tradition was there in the joyful beating of drums and cymbals as they emerged from their civil ceremonies.
  • (9) This is interesting, because these days we think of Radiohead as a largely electronic unit, yet Alt-J employ enough non-electronic instruments (the drummer, for example, uses a saucepan instead of a cymbal) for it to be appropriate to think of them as, in a way, a modern folk band.
  • (10) Wondering when Alfie and Kat will finally get together has been like waiting for an absent-minded percussion player to find his second cymbal.
  • (11) The Guardian’s photographer delightedly pointed out an element of the music he had never heard before, rattled out on the bell of a cymbal.
  • (12) Disclosure sound pretty great with their laptops and cymbal combination.
  • (13) He made enough of an impression to get himself recruited to the BBC Light Programme as presenter of the Records Around Five show in 1960, where he first introduced his familiar signature tune, At the Sign of the Swinging Cymbal, written by Brian Fahey.