Din \Din\, v. i.
To sound with a din; a ding.
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The gay viol dinning in the dale. --A. Seward.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? --Shak.
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He knew the battle's din afar. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The dust and din and steam of town. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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2. To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
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This hath been often dinned in my ears. --Swift.
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To din into, to fix in the mind of another by frequent and
noisy repetitions. --Sir W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
din
n 1: 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]
v 1: 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"
[also: dinning, dinned]
WordNet (r) 2.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
uproar
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
DIN
Deutsches Institut fuer Normung (org.)
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
DIN
Deutsche Institut fuer Normung. The German standardisation
body, a member of ISO.
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