name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
clack
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/klæk/
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rhymes with -æk
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CMU ARPABET: K L AE1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
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noun
Meaning 3
Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
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noun
Meaning 4
Chatter; prattle.
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noun
Meaning 5
The tongue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
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verb
Meaning 6
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
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verb
Meaning 9
To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
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Usage: UK
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verb
Meaning 10
Dated form of cluck.
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Usage: alt-of, dated
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noun
Meaning 11
a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: clack valve, clapper valve
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Broader terms: valve
noun
Meaning 12
a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: clap
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Broader terms: noise
verb
Meaning 13
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Narrower terms: babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither
verb
Meaning 14
make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cluck, click
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Broader terms: utter, emit, let out, let loose
verb
Meaning 15
make a rattling sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- clattering dishes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clatter, brattle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: make noise, resound, noise
History
Etymology
From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”).
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тракане (trakane) — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Bulgarian: чукане (čukane) — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Finnish: kalahdus — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Finnish: kolahdus — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Finnish: kalina — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Finnish: kolina — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Macedonian: тро́пање (trópanje) — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Macedonian: тре́скот (tréskot) — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Macedonian: тре́сок (trésok) — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Russian: треск (tresk) — an abrupt, sharp sound
- Bulgarian: бърборене (bǎrborene) — chatter
- Macedonian: брбо́рење (brbórenje) — chatter
- Macedonian: дрдо́рење (drdórenje) — chatter
- Bulgarian: тракам (trakam) — to make such a sound
- Bulgarian: чукам (čukam) — to make such a sound
- Esperanto: klaki — to make such a sound
- Finnish: kalahtaa — to make such a sound
- Finnish: kolahtaa — to make such a sound
- Finnish: kalista — to make such a sound
- Finnish: kolista — to make such a sound
- Greek: χτυπώ (chtypó) — to make such a sound
- Macedonian: тро́па (trópa) — to make such a sound
- Bulgarian: бърборя (bǎrborja) — to chatter or babble
- Finnish: kälättää — to chatter or babble
- Finnish: räpättää — to chatter or babble
- Macedonian: бр́бори (bŕbori) — to chatter or babble
- Macedonian: др́дори (dŕdori) — to chatter or babble