(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.
Plank
Definition:
(n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.
(n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.
(n.) One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.
(v. t.) To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.
(v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.
(v. t.) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
(v. t.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, gene diffusion in energy space is described by the Focker--Plank's equation.
(2) They didn’t want to think of themselves as having a kind of reliance on the state … It became a fundamental plank of the kind of ‘British values’ culture.” Between 1979 and 2013, 1.6m council homes were sold, numbers of new homes plummeted and council housing went from an inbuilt part of the post-war settlement to something pushed to the social margins.
(3) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
(4) Tsipras, who made an official visit to Moscow in April to discuss the project, has made improved ties with the fellow Orthodox state a central plank of his two-party coalition’s foreign policy – much to the consternation of the EU.
(5) The Ukip leader said he was making immigration the central plank of his campaign and wants the the chance to grill David Cameron on the issue at the leaders’ television debates later this week.
(6) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
(7) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(8) A central plank of the Conservative campaign for the local elections later this month – that its councils guarantee lower levels of council tax – has been challenged by new figures which show that the Tories are responsible for the highest increases.
(9) In a central plank of plans to cut the deficit, the government is capping the annual bill for tax credits and housing benefit to £119.5bn this year – despite forecasts that millions of people face rocketing rent charges and low wage rises.
(10) The tactic is a key plank of police planning to ensure the Games are not disrupted.
(11) The results provide two planks of support for Woodworth's hypothesis.
(12) That means shaking up the mutual's board, which is made up of 20 members elected from all corners of the co-operative empire and regarded as a key plank of the group's claim to be a democratic organisation.
(13) Zinke also differed from many in his own party by insisting: “I’m absolutely against transfer or sale of public lands.” Many Republicans have long pushed for the federal government to transfer ownership of public lands to the states, and this was included as a plank in the party’s platform.
(14) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
(15) You can build your own with a few planks of wood, or cut the bottom off an old bin.
(16) The decision quashed a key plank of UK asylum policy.
(17) In collaboration with other leading economists, he has championed a state-backed investment bank to boost lending to small and medium-sized businesses as a major plank of a growth package.
(18) The notion that sterling is a shared asset has been a key plank in Salmond's case that Scotland has a clear moral and legal case to have a formal currency zone, but it has been challenged by senior economists, who say a currency is only a system of exchange or a liability.
(19) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
(20) Unlike many crony capitalists who troll the halls of Congress looking for favors, the Kochs have consistently lobbied against special-interest politics.” Touching on a key plank of his attempted appeal to liberal voters , Paul continues: “[The Kochs] have always stood for freedom, equality and opportunity.