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din
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun din has 2 senses
- din(n = noun.event) blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor - a loud harsh or strident noise; Array is a kind of noise
- din(n = noun.act) commotion, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, tumult - the act of making a noisy disturbance; Array is a kind of disturbance
Derived form verb din1
has particulars: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir
Verb din has 2 senses
- din(v = verb.perception) boom - make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall" is one way to go, sound
- din(v = verb.cognition) Array - instill (into a person) by constant repetition; "he dinned the lessons into his students" is one way to inculcate, infuse, instill
Derived form noun din1
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
din, n. any of a series of technical standards originating in W. Germany and used internationally, esp. to designate electrical connections, film speeds, and paper sizes.
Etymology
G, f. Deutsche Industrie- Norm
din, n. & v.
--n. a prolonged loud and distracting noise.
--v. (dinned, dinning)
1 tr. (foll. by into) instil (something to be learned) by constant repetition.
2 intr. make a din.
--n. a prolonged loud and distracting noise.
--v. (dinned, dinning)
1 tr. (foll. by into) instil (something to be learned) by constant repetition.
2 intr. make a din.
Etymology
OE dyne, dynn, dynian f. Gmc
THESAURUS
din
Bedlam let loose, awake the dead, babel, beat, bedlam, blast, blast the ear, blatancy, bobbery, boisterousness, boom, brawl, brouhaha, charivari, chirm, clamor, clamorousness, clangor, clap, clash, clatter, commotion, crash, crescendo, deafen, ding, discord, donnybrook, drum, drunken brawl, dustup, fill the air, flap, fracas, free-for-all, hammer, hell broke loose, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, jangle, loud noise, music, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, peal, percussion, pound, racket, rattle, rattle the windows, rend the air, rend the ears, resound, rhubarb, ring, rise, roar, rock the sky, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, shivaree, sound, split the eardrums, split the ears, startle the echoes, stridency, stun, surge, swell, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, tumult, uproarROGET THESAURUS
din
Loudness
N loudness, power, loud noise, din, blare, clang, clangor, clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom, bang (explosion), resonance, vociferation, hullabaloo, lungs, Stentor, artillery, cannon, thunder, loud, sonorous, high-sounding, big-sounding, deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous, thundering, deafening, trumpet-tongued, ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-deafening, piercing, obstreperous, rackety, uproarious, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers, shrill &c 410 clamorous stentorian, stentorophonic, loudly, aloud, at the top of one's voice, at the top of one's lungs, lustily, in full cry, the air rings with, the deep dread-bolted thunder.
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