What is "din"

Din \Din\, v. i. To sound with a din; a ding.

The gay viol dinning in the dale.
--A. Seward.

Din \Din\ (d[i^]n), n. [AS. dyne, dyn; akin to Icel. dynr, and to AS. dynian to resound, Icel. dynja to pour down like hail or rain; cf. Skr. dhuni roaring, a torrent, dhvan to sound. Cf. Dun to ask payment.] Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.

Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
--Shak.

He knew the battle's din afar.
--Sir W. Scott.

The dust and din and steam of town.
--Tennyson.

Din \Din\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dinning.] [AS. dynian. See Din, n.]

1. To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.

2. To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.

   This hath been often dinned in my ears.
   --Swift.

   To din into, to fix in the mind of another by frequent and noisy repetitions.
   --Sir W. Scott.

Old English dyne (n.), dynian (v.), from Proto-Germanic *duniz (cognates: Old Norse dynr, Danish don, Middle Low German don "noise"), from PIE root *dwen- "to make noise" (cognates: Sanskrit dhuni "roaring, a torrent").

Etymology 1 n. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To be filled with sound; to resound. 2 (context transitive English) To assail with loud noise. 3 (context transitive English) To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody. 4 (context intransitive English) To make a din.

1. n. a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor]

2. the act of making a noisy disturbance [syn: commotion, ruction, ruckus, rumpus, tumult]

3. [also: dinning, dinned]

1. v. make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall" [syn: boom]

2. instill (into a person) by constant repetition; "he dinned the lessons into his students"

3. [also: dinning, dinned]

DIN or Din or din can have several meanings:

• Dīn, an Arabic term meaning "religion" or "way of life"
• Din (Kabbalah), one of the ten aspects of the Ein Sof in Kabbalah (more commonly known as "Gevurah")
• Din (surname)
• DIN is the abbreviated name of the Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardization) and is used in the names of its standards, like:
  • DIN 1451, German Standard Committee chosen typeface from 1936.
  • DIN 4512, a definition of film speed
  • DIN 476, as for example DIN A4, is a scale for paper sizes.
  • DIN 31635, an Arabic transliteration scheme.
  • DIN 72552 is a standard for automobile electric terminal numbers.
  • DIN connector, one of a number of electrical (audio/video/keyboard) connectors following DIN standards.
  • DIN fitting, a type of high-pressure air or gas connection used in some modern very high-pressure scuba gear.
  • DIN ISO 7736, size standard for car audio head units.
  • DIN Panel cutout size, a standard for cutouts for industrial panel mount equipment.
  • DIN rail, a common system for mounting circuit breakers and industrial control equipment inside equipment racks.
  • DIN ski binding scale, scale to ensure ski bindings release under the same force at all skiing destinations worldwide.
  • FF DIN, 1995 digital typeface
  • DIN 66036, a metric horsepower
• Din, Guinea
• Din, Iran
• Drug Identification Number - a unique number given to all drugs sold in Canada.
• Din (The Legend of Zelda), a goddess in The Legend of Zelda series of video games
• Serbian dinar, a local abbreviation

• Din, a member of the Harvard Din and Tonics
• Din, an alias used by electronic music producer J.C. Cutz
• Din, the band on Guitar Hero that did the song Fly on the Wall as a bonus track
• Din (din is noise), a free software musical instrument & audio synthesizer
• Din, a song by Therion from the album Sitra Ahra

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(, also anglicized as Deen) is a Persian word , commonly associated with Zoroastrianism and Islam, but it is also used in Sikhism and Arab Christian worship. The term is loosely associated with religion, but in the Qur'an, it means the way of life in which righteous Muslims must adopt to comply with divine law (Quran and sunnah), or Shari'a, and to the divine judgment or recompense to which all humanity must inevitably face without intercessors before God. Thus, although secular Muslims would say that their practical interpretation of Dīn conforms to "religion" in the restricted sense of something that can be carried out in separation from other areas of life, both mainstream and reformist Muslim writers take the word to mean an all-encompassing way of life carried out under the auspices of God's divine purpose as expressed in the Qur'an and hadith. As one notably progressive Muslim writer puts it, far from being a discrete aspect of life carried out in the mosque, "Islam is Dīn, a complete way of life".

DIN (DIN Is Noise) is a software musical instrument for the Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. A DIN player either plays with a keyboard, or uses the computer mouse to pick both the pitch (by moving horizontally) and the volume (by moving vertically) of a sound from an on-screen keyboard that displays the notes of the current scale and a number of microtones in-between. By varying the mouse position, a player can simultaneously change the pitch & volume of their sound and improvise their music. Players can use Bezier curves to create and sculpt waveforms to change the timbre of the instrument, provide carrier and modulator waveforms for the FM and AM and control other parameters like stereo gater patterns, Delay feedback & volume patterns and Compressor patterns. Users can also create an unlimited number of drones pitched on any microtone and edit them in real-time.

DIN uses JACK to output audio on Linux and accepts input using MIDI, OSC & IRC protocols.

DIN is free software on Linux and proprietary software on Windows and Mac OS X.