What's the difference between tingle and tinkle?

Tingle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.
  • (v. i.) To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.
  • (v. i.) To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Symptoms include numbness, tingling and pain in the anterolateral thigh.
  • (2) There is a reason for this and it is not merely the deeply ingrained tribal loyalty of a boy who still remembers the thrill of his first visit to the Stretford End or the tingle of excitement when offered a job as a paperboy by a former United star (in those days retired footballers had to work for a living).
  • (3) A spine-tingling roar rolled off the Kop after an eighth consecutive league win lifted Liverpool above Manchester City and Chelsea with perfect timing.
  • (4) The patient developed subacute symptoms over a 1-month period consisting of progressive pain, tingling, and weakness of the lower extremities.
  • (5) But I reckon Laura Tingle is dead right on the substantive challenge - the statement just shows the country can no longer coast.
  • (6) During the study, patients were asked about subjective neurologic symptoms such as tingling and numbness.
  • (7) Following routine inferior alveolar nerve block anesthesia, time is allowed for subjective signs of "tingling" of the lower lip.
  • (8) Similarly, the prevalence of numbness and tingling in the hands and fingers in the three exposure groups was 84%, 50%, and 17%.
  • (9) Side-effects with delmopinol were transient tingling and numbness of the tongue in some subjects.
  • (10) Another agent was benzocaine, a local anaesthetic used by dentists that produces a tingling sensation in the nose akin to that produced by cocaine.
  • (11) Among the exposed workers, the members of paediatric surgical staffs reported a higher rate of neurological complaints (tingling, numbness, cramps) and tiredness than the members of the other surgical staffs.
  • (12) A 62-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of tingling numbness in the trunk and upper extremities.
  • (13) Complaints of weakness and tingling in hands and feet, together with low-grade changes in nerve conduction, suggest the possible influence of agents with a neurotoxic esterase-type activity independent of cholinesterase activity.
  • (14) A good answer on hot flushes and "irritability, anxiety, depression" was obtained by Trazodone, while Veralipride showed to be more active on all neurovegetative symptoms (hot flushes, sweatings, tinglings, palpitations, astenia).
  • (15) The sensory changes include burning pain, numbness, tingling, and loss of sensation, while the motor changes range from weakness to complete paralysis.
  • (16) The commonest symptoms were numbness or tingling in the legs and feet and gait disturbance.
  • (17) The most common sensation was a numbness and tingling in the ipsilateral arm when the chest was being treated.
  • (18) The pain intensified and numbness, tingling and paraesthesia developed over 24 hours.
  • (19) The academic Ross Garnaut, who advised the former Labor government about climate policy, responded to a call for concrete ideas from participants from the summit moderator, Australian Financial Review journalist Laura Tingle, by suggesting Australia could adopt an economy-wide carbon price and use the revenue raised to repair the budget deficit.
  • (20) With subcutaneous sumatriptan (4-8 mg) similar events were observed, but certain distinctive symptoms variously described as heaviness, pressure sensation, tingling, feelings of heat or warmth, were more common and affected various parts of the body.

Tinkle


Definition:

  • (n.) The common guillemot.
  • (v. i.) To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
  • (v. i.) To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  • (v. t.) To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
  • (n.) A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (2) Look out for peregrine falcons and ravens riding the cliffupdraughts, and in spring listen for the tinkling songs of redstarts.
  • (3) The short teaser film, accompanied by that familiar tinkling soundtrack, showed no gameplay footage at all.
  • (4) Nonetheless, this is the first time I think I've seen it framed in such a "female" way and, as we are usually the ones being told not to "leave it too late", I have to admit that I almost cackled (young women have delicate, tinkling laughs, but feminists cackle, obviously).
  • (5) Cycle alongside Lake Shore Drive in the early morning and you will pass black church groups jogging, Asians playing cricket and the tinkling of masts in the marina.
  • (6) I knew I had to rethink everything.” Joining the Royal Court in 1957, he made his London directing debut with NF Simpson ’s A Resounding Tinkle, and scored an early success with John Osborne ’s Epitaph for George Dillon, which transferred to Broadway.
  • (7) His first play to be produced was A Resounding Tinkle (1957), which in its original two-act form won third prize in an Observer playwriting competition organised by Tynan and was produced as a Sunday night "without decor" production at the Royal Court.
  • (8) The muses holding up the balcony tittered and the huge chandelier, only just out of reach of Dodd's enormous tickling stick, tinkled with delight.
  • (9) But what other institutions could do with the tinkling of shattering glass?
  • (10) While passengers at Tiburtina, one of Rome’s main train stations and just a 10-minute ride from the Colosseum, tinkled on the station’s piano or stopped off for an ice cream, outside there were more urgent matters at hand.
  • (11) The tinkle of the flagpoles is about the only sound on the tarmac.
  • (12) The first few minutes of tense conversations and snow-shrouded Swedish landscapes are accompanied by wintry drones and tinkling bells.
  • (13) Despite this non-specific lust, he does have a girlfriend of sorts: the grotesque Margaret, whose "tinkle of tiny silver bells" laugh will freeze the heart of any would-be coquette.
  • (14) Inside, Lea and Alice lean on the desk, Magic FM tinkling on the radio.
  • (15) The short-form version of A Resounding Tinkle was this time paired with Gladly Otherwise, in which a furniture inspector asks householders about their absence of floor and is told that it's under the carpet ("making full use of it, I hope?").
  • (16) There are three distinct sounds of broken glass tinkling to the pavement from the shattered window, a small handful of thunks as he falls sideways to the ground, his laboured breathing, the chug of his boot heel finally connecting with the asphalt – even the pads of his fingers as they scrabble along the top of the window.
  • (17) As he bellowed down the phone to the Guardian today it was hard not to notice lounge music tinkling in the background – the soundtrack aboard Green's yacht off the Italian coast where he is entertaining Naomi Campbell and Leonardo DiCaprio this week.
  • (18) An extraordinary impact was rounded off in 1959 when Peter Cook – who owed much of his wild-eyed, raincoated monologist EL Wisty to Simpson – appeared at Cambridge in a student revival of the two-act A Resounding Tinkle, directed by John Bird.
  • (19) Slender cypress trees sway in the warm breeze, as the sound of wind chimes tinkles across the terraces.
  • (20) If you were growing up in the 70s and 80s, you probably moved without loyalty or much discernment between choc ices and Neapolitan blocks at home and a 99 Flake whenever you were in earshot of the melodious tinkling of Greensleeves.