What's the difference between clank and clanking?

Clank


Definition:

  • (n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
  • (v. i.) To sound with a clank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.
  • (2) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."
  • (3) Muller then slides a ball into the area for Muller, who breaks clear with only Romero to beat, but lets the ball clank off his shin and towards Romero.
  • (4) In Houston, on any given day, entomologists can be found clanking open manhole covers, wading into ditches or walking through backyards of obliging residents.
  • (5) 78 min: That could have made things at least a little bit interesting: A clever reverse ball by Benzema releases Grosso down the left-hand side of the Rangers box, but the World Cup winning left-back lets the ball clank hopelessly off his shins and out of play.
  • (6) The ball clanks off the middle of the left-hand post, in super slow-motion technicolor, Rene Houseman hacks clear, and 51 seconds later, the referee blows the final whistle.
  • (7) The fourth season of Game of Thrones is looming like an armour-clanking phalanx, ready to maraud into your social life from 7 April onwards.
  • (8) 8.05pm BST 4 min: ... clank an idiotic effort straight into the wall.
  • (9) Giroud meets the set piece, but clanks a header well wide.
  • (10) It's not a great effort, but it clanks into the legs of Giroud, and the striker - just onside when the shot was taken - is suddenly one on one with Stockdale!
  • (11) The sound of their clanking on the metal floor of the blocks in Camp Delta is still fresh in my mind.
  • (12) The home team won 8-2 in an eerie atmosphere where foul balls clanked around empty grandstands and mammoth home runs were received in silence.
  • (13) Cameron and Clegg were more brutal and direct – in keeping with the clanking sounds emanating from the factory floor.
  • (14) Inside, however, the tiny store smells like smoke and echoes with the electronic clank of four video slot machines that occupy about a third of the floor space.
  • (15) Then, the wealthiest citizens clanked champagne flutes to their own good fortunes, while the majority of the population struggled in the proverbial alleyways.
  • (16) A deeper conundrum is that while crowdfunding is happy-clappy on the outside, inside beats the libertarian free-market clank of the Silicon Valley culture in which it was forged.
  • (17) Juan Mata's delivery is poor and enables Yayya Toure to go on one of his clanking runs down the pitch.
  • (18) Out of the corner of my eye I saw the motorbike clank over and skid a long way.
  • (19) They would be increasingly propelled into a world system already clanking away at full speed.
  • (20) The rain was pattering against the old windows, the steam heat was clanking in the old radiator, and I felt at peace.

Clanking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clank

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.
  • (2) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."
  • (3) Muller then slides a ball into the area for Muller, who breaks clear with only Romero to beat, but lets the ball clank off his shin and towards Romero.
  • (4) In Houston, on any given day, entomologists can be found clanking open manhole covers, wading into ditches or walking through backyards of obliging residents.
  • (5) 78 min: That could have made things at least a little bit interesting: A clever reverse ball by Benzema releases Grosso down the left-hand side of the Rangers box, but the World Cup winning left-back lets the ball clank hopelessly off his shins and out of play.
  • (6) The ball clanks off the middle of the left-hand post, in super slow-motion technicolor, Rene Houseman hacks clear, and 51 seconds later, the referee blows the final whistle.
  • (7) The fourth season of Game of Thrones is looming like an armour-clanking phalanx, ready to maraud into your social life from 7 April onwards.
  • (8) 8.05pm BST 4 min: ... clank an idiotic effort straight into the wall.
  • (9) Giroud meets the set piece, but clanks a header well wide.
  • (10) It's not a great effort, but it clanks into the legs of Giroud, and the striker - just onside when the shot was taken - is suddenly one on one with Stockdale!
  • (11) The sound of their clanking on the metal floor of the blocks in Camp Delta is still fresh in my mind.
  • (12) The home team won 8-2 in an eerie atmosphere where foul balls clanked around empty grandstands and mammoth home runs were received in silence.
  • (13) Cameron and Clegg were more brutal and direct – in keeping with the clanking sounds emanating from the factory floor.
  • (14) Inside, however, the tiny store smells like smoke and echoes with the electronic clank of four video slot machines that occupy about a third of the floor space.
  • (15) Then, the wealthiest citizens clanked champagne flutes to their own good fortunes, while the majority of the population struggled in the proverbial alleyways.
  • (16) A deeper conundrum is that while crowdfunding is happy-clappy on the outside, inside beats the libertarian free-market clank of the Silicon Valley culture in which it was forged.
  • (17) Juan Mata's delivery is poor and enables Yayya Toure to go on one of his clanking runs down the pitch.
  • (18) Out of the corner of my eye I saw the motorbike clank over and skid a long way.
  • (19) They would be increasingly propelled into a world system already clanking away at full speed.
  • (20) The rain was pattering against the old windows, the steam heat was clanking in the old radiator, and I felt at peace.

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