Crossword clues for clanging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
clanging \clanging\ adj. emitting a series of clangs, as of metal objects colliding.
Syn: clangorous.
Wiktionary
n. A noise that clangs. vb. (present participle of clang English)
WordNet
adj. having a loud resonant metallic sound; "the clangorous locomotive works"; "a clanging gong" [syn: clangorous]
Wikipedia
In psychology and psychiatry, clanging refers to a mode of speech characterized by association of words based upon sound rather than concepts. For example, this may include compulsive rhyming or alliteration without apparent logical connection between words. This is associated with the irregular thinking apparent in psychotic mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia).
Clanging refers specifically to behavior that is situationally inappropriate. While a poet rhyming is not evidence of mental illness, disorganized speech that impedes the patient's ability to communicate is a disorder in itself, often seen in schizophrenia.
Usage examples of "clanging".
The horn met the nymph's mouth, but no sound interrupted the bangings, clangings, meanings and cryings of battle, and no flight of arrows followed.
He twitched his delicate ears back and forth nervously at all the loud clangings and hangings.
Outside the capsule were distinct noises, metallic clangings, shouts, orders.
He didn't know if anyone else heard the metallic squealings and clangings, or the final clunk as the clamps let go, the noise was loud enough in the engineering section.
Metallic clangings echoed over the silent throng as the doors through which people had filed were shut.
A second series of metallic clangings and once again the force-whips slashed out over the assembled.
Prosik listened to faint buzzings and clangings from the guard station.
Prosik listened to faint buzzings and clangings from the guard station.
In the hills surrounding Point Pleasant we heard many stories about footsteps on the roof, strange metallic clangings (the most common being the sound of a car door slamming outside the house when there were no cars in sight).
Some of these had registered as dark blurs on the Dead God's multiscanner, othersreality-folds, cold spots, places where strange clangings could be hearddid not, though whether this was due to a flaw in the scanner or to ancient fields of magic in the walls, he did not know.