tinkling
present participle oftinkle
tinkle
verb[I]
uk/ˈtɪŋ.kəl/us/ˈtɪŋ.kəl/tinkleverb[I](SOUND)
to make alightringingsound:
Somesmallold-fashionedshopsstill have abellwhich tinkles when youpushthedooropen.
Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- babble
- blaze
- bong
- chuff
- clatter
- click away
- clicker
- clinking
- clunk
- crump
- growl
- gunshot
- hiss
- jangling
- plunk
- scrunch
- sonic boom
- tick
- white noise
- whoosh
tinkleverb[I](TOILET)
informalorchild'sword
tourinate
Animal physiology: urine & urinating
- accident
- bathroom
- be caught/taken shortidiom
- diuretic
- excrete
- excretion
- go to the bathroomidiom
- leak
- micturition
- pass
- pass wateridiom
- short
- tinkle
- tumulus
- uric
- urinate
- water
- waterworks
- wee
- wetyourpantsidiom
Examplesoftinkling
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Her presentation of the intimate crackling andtinklingcan draw a listener away from a mimetic orientation to an aural form of discourse.
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The small,tinklingsounds, absent of the background noise, pull a listener in.
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Thetinklingcelts may well have denoted the breath and speech of the jade mask.
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Their eyes remain hidden behind dark glasses as they lead the people around the arbor until the circle has been completely filled with twirling, swaying, glittering, andtinklinghumanity.
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The chorus is completely eliminated, and the orchestra reduced to a fifteen-piece chamber group; often there is no more than a pianotinklingaway at the 'fate-theme' on the soundtrack.
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He is not even a sounding brass or atinklingsymbal.
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There are those of us who remember the old silver screen with the piano and the fiddletinklingaway below.
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He was certainly eloquent, but eloquent with the noise oftinklingbrass.
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In the early hours of the morning—though it is, in a sense, atinklingsound—they make a tremendous amount of noise.
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Paul, could be but the "tinklingof a cymbal" if the financial resources arc not deliberately and specifically channelled to this purpose.
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That freedom is equally necessary for the exercise of those gifts of understanding, courage and gentleness, without which the art of medicine would be but atinklingcymbal.
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However, it is a great achievement to progress from flicking an eyelid or moving a finger to looking around at one's surroundings or identifying thetinklingof a bell.
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Paul also said, is that she has "become as sounding brass or atinklingcymbal", because we have heard it all before.
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A butler took a duster and brushed it up,tinklingthe keys.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is said their auspicious voice sounds like thetinklingof bells, chimes, and the wind.
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- make／take a journey
- man in the street
- man of few words
- man of one's word
- man of parts
- many a
- map out
- mark down
- mark off
- mark out
- mark time
- mark up
- marry up
- match up
- match up to
- matter of course
- matter of fact
- may／might as well
- mean business
- measure off
- measure out
- measure up
- measure up to
- meet one's engagements
- meet sb．half way