clack
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noisesTo make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
» My keyboard makes clicking and clacking noises.
Значение
значений: 4(непереходный)To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
(переходный)To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
(Британия)To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
- make a rattling sound
- make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Примеры
предложений: 4My keyboard makes clicking and clacking noises.
Her black boots clacked on the pavement.
I hear the storks clacking from up in the belfry.
The head nurse came striding up, her leather heels clacking on the tile floor.
Происхождение
From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, cFrom Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”).
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Формы
clacks, clacking, clacked, clackedСинонимы
синонимов: 17Однокоренные
связанных слов: 1Уроки к слову
уроков: 3- A1Present Simple: настоящее простое время — Потому что это глагол
- A1Past Simple: правильные глаголы — Потому что у него есть форма прошедшего времени
- A2Present Perfect: введение — Потому что у него есть причастие прошедшего времени