clack
Castanets' crisp sound
Clack is a sharp, dry sound—the noise of hard objects striking together briefly: the clack of billiard balls, the clack of her heels on tile.
The word imitates the sound it describes.
To clack is to make this noise, or to talk rapidly and noisily: They sat clacking away about the neighbors.
A clack can also be a device that makes such sounds, like the clapper in a mill.
Toothed rotating machine parts
- cogsProjections on a wheel
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
- typewriterMechanical printing keyboard
keyboard · knitting needles · loom · ratchet · lever · relay · switch · turnstile
click
Brief sharp noise
clang · tap · knock · chink · crack · clip-clop · clunk · tick · tock · clink
gears
Toothed rotating machine parts
- cogsProjections on a wheel
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
typewriter · keyboard · knitting needles · loom · ratchet · lever · relay · switch · turnstile · telegraph
rhythm
Patterned stress and silence
claves · woodblock · sticks · flamenco · tap dance · maracas · bones · clappers · drumsticks · finger snapping
chatter
Light, rapid speech
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
- jabberTalk rapidly, incoherently
gab · natter · yak · blather · babble · patter · chitchat · gabbing · yammering · tittle-tattle
- onomatopoeiabang, bam, boom, buzz, clang
- impact soundsbam, bang, bash, bonk, boom
- footstep soundsfootsteps, stomp, thud, thump, clop
- mouth actionsbite, biting, chewing, chew, swallowing
- train soundschoo-choo, chug, chugging, train horn, steam whistle
- typing soundsclick, tap, tapping, keystroke, key press
- clacker ballsPercussive swinging toy spheres
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