Clang: Definition and part of speech

Clang

  1. n. Quality of tone.
  2. v. t. To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
  3. v. i. To give out a clang; to resound.
  4. n. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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