Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - clack
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Clack
clack
(clacks, clacking, clacked) If things clack or if you clack them, they make a short loud noise, especially when they hit each other. The windshield wipers clacked back and forth... I clacked one ski against the other and almost tripped. VERB: V, V n • Clack is also a noun. ...listening to the clack of her shoes on the stairs... Her bracelets were going clack-clack-clack, she was shaking so hard. N-SING; SOUND
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I. verb Etymology: Middle English, of imitative origin Date: 13th century intransitive verb 1. chatter, prattle 2. to make an abrupt striking sound or series of sounds 3. of fowl cackle, cluck transitive verb 1. to cause to make a clatter 2. to produce with a chattering sound; specifically blab • ~er noun II. noun Date: 15th century 1. a. rapid continuous talk ; chatter b. tongue 2. archaic an object (as a valve) that produces clapping or rattling noises usually in regular rapid sequence 3. a sound of ~ing the ~ of a typewriter ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.intr. 1 make a sharp sound as of boards struck together. 2 chatter, esp. loudly. --n. 1 a clacking sound. 2 clacking talk. Derivatives clacker n. Etymology: ME, = to chatter, prob. f. ON klaka, of imit. orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. noun 1) треск; щелканье 2) шум голосов; болтовня 3) погремушка 4) = clack-valve 2. v. 1) трещать; щелкать 2) громко болтать 3) кудахтать, гоготать ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 if you clack something or if it clacks, it makes a continuous short hard sound 2 Icountable) informal if tongues are clacking, people are talking a lot about something shocking or surprising (News of her pregnancy had already set tongues clacking in the neighbourhood.) - clack n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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