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Clatter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
  • (v. i.) To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
  • (v. t.) To make a rattling noise with.
  • (n.) A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
  • (n.) Commotion; disturbance.
  • (n.) Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now Michael, what was the word I just said?” I told her the word was “Monday” and, with no more ado, she returned to her desk and clattered something out on her computer.
  • (2) 2.23am GMT Thoughts on the refereeing... Adam Large (@largeam) @ busfield Useless MLS referee.Letting Houston foul at will and things are already getting out of hand.I'm not a KC fan, but seriously... November 8, 2012 Updated at 2.23am GMT 2.22am GMT 12 mins Beautiful little flick by Kamara down the left, before he's clattered by Garcia.
  • (3) Richard Dunne clatters into him late, the goalkeeper goes down and several France players swarm around Dunne to voice their displeasure at the Ireland defender.
  • (4) 20-odd seconds: Suarez goes for a loose ball down the inside-right channel and clatters into the back of Ferdinand, who in turn wallops Evra.
  • (5) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
  • (6) A doltish young buck, hairless and pouting, will clatter through the doors of an annoying boutique.
  • (7) He's also clattered, allowing Toure the chance to belt a fierce shot at goal from out wide.
  • (8) Beyond the clattering of cameras and some polite pleasantries about the families, it was impossible to tell exactly what the monarch-in-waiting learned from the commander-in-chief – but he seems to be picking up some lessons on US political campaigning at least.
  • (9) 5.06pm BST 4 mins: Talking of Webb and his decisions, Fernandinho clatters Charles Aranguiz after the ball's gone and gets away with it because it's a little too early for yellow cards.
  • (10) After the own goal, the game’s full-blooded, directionless nature was epitomised when Ashley Williams, the Wales captain, clattered into Jonny Williams, leaving them both in need of treatment.
  • (11) He clatters into Kirm again, and is lucky to escape a booking.
  • (12) Williams, however, was starting to find her groove and despite giving Mattek-Sands hope with a break back at 5-3, two clattering returns helped her break again at 6-5 to clinch the set and level up.
  • (13) He's now clattered clumsily into the back of Matuidi.
  • (14) As the train clatters downtown, I allow myself to feel feisty, and just a little bit fond.
  • (15) The former clatters, accidentally, into the latter.
  • (16) Winchell's quick-fire radio and TV shows, where he delivered news and gossip, accompanied by clattering telexes, gave him enormous power, and he perfected the use of slang to avoid legal disputes, promising his listeners each week the lowdown on celebrity and politics, "the very very low low down down".
  • (17) We hear only noises – a burst of gunfire and the clatter of broken glass: she could be watching Harrison Ford fight back against the hijackers in Petersen’s Air Force One .
  • (18) Webb, in truth, had been given no choice in a contest that bristled from the opening exchange, when Robin van Persie flew in late to clatter Sergio Busquets behind the Spaniard's right knee.
  • (19) My pace was slow; a mountain biker whizzed past me, his spokes clattering as small stones ricocheted off.
  • (20) Aggrieved that Colback, already booked for going in late on Muniesa, had escaped a yellow card for clattering into Victor Moses a couple of minutes earlier, Stoke’s bench looked far from amused.

Click


Definition:

  • (n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
  • (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
  • (v. t.) To move with the sound of a click.
  • (v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
  • (n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.
  • (v. t.) To snatch.
  • (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
  • (n.) The latch of a door.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
  • (2) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
  • (3) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
  • (4) On the basis of recorded ABR data, sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive values were estimated for click intensities which could be used for single-intensity ABR screens.
  • (5) suppress the response to the second of a pair of clicks delivered at a 0.5 s interval.
  • (6) Similar responses were obtained with gated noise bursts and by pauses in a series of clicks.
  • (7) However, the data suggest that this area may actually represent two separate projections to the cortex, since a small subarea characterized by longer response latencies was located posteriorally and laterally within the click field in the majority of animals investigated.
  • (8) Based on initial auscultatory findings, patients were divided into: (1) single or multiple apical systolic clicks with no murmur (n = 99); (2) single or multiple apical systolic clicks and a late systolic murmur (n = 129); and (3) single or multiple apical clicks and an apical pansystolic murmur or murmur beginning in the first half of systole (n = 63).
  • (9) Results showed that embryos stimulated by clicks began breathing about nine hours in advance of unstimulated controls and hatched about 23 hours in advance.
  • (10) Various parameters of the ABR were compared at the two click rates in the control and experimental states to see if the higher click rate was more effective in detecting pathology in the nervous system.
  • (11) No consistent pattern of relationships between reported and recorded clicking sounds and single factors obtained by the questionnaire or clinically recorded variables could be found.
  • (12) Nonejection systolic and diastolic clicks appeared when a Swan-Ganz catheter was positioned in the proximal portion of the right pulmonary artery.
  • (13) Click to enlarge and debate the strip below the line.
  • (14) Synovitis plays a major role, as demonstrated by the frequency of clicking fingers (45%), and requires synovectomy that allows thoroughly exploring the carpal tunnel and removing a highly aggressive element against tendons.
  • (15) Four cats, classically conditioned to a flashing light paired with food reinforcement, were tested for amplitude changes of click-evoked potentials during increasing hours of deprivation.
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  • (17) The cochlear summating potential (SP) preceding the auditory nerve compound action potential (AP) was elicited by broadband alternating condensation and rarefaction clicks and recorded by noninvasive electrodes from the external auditory meatus (EAM) of 60 volunteers of both sexes, 12 to 67 years old, who had normal hearing for age.
  • (18) I've had two or three serious relationships, I haven't been married, I haven't had that ultimate relationship where something clicks and I'm like, 'I get it now!'
  • (19) Potentials were evoked with bilaterally presented click stimuli and with electrical stimulation of the ventral and dorsal divisions of the medial geniculate body.
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