din
Collocations
7(noun.)
ADJ
awful, raucous, terrible | constant
VERB + DIN
make
The children made such a terrible din playing in the backyard that the neighbors complained.
hear
hear sb above/over
I had to shout to be heard over the din of the traffic.
PREP
above/over the ~
The teacher had to raise her voice over the din of the excited children.
PHRASES
the din of battle
Definitions
name
The German Institute for Standardization.
noun
A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
[B]red to war, / He knew the battle’s din afar, / And joyed to hear it swell.
verb
To make a din, to resound.
1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21, For, spite of rumbling of the wheels, A welcome greeting he can hear;— It is a fiddle in its glee Dinning from the CHERRY TREE!
My confused senses received a dull roar of pounding feet and dinning voices as the herald of victory.
(of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]
To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder: or Political Essays, London: D. Midwinter & J. Tonson, No. 8, 16 January, 1716, pp. 45-46, She ought in such Cases to exert the Authority of the Curtain Lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious Disposition, to tame him, as they do Birds of Prey, by dinning him in the Ears all Night long.
Oh ye! whose ears are dinn’d with uproar rude, Or fed too much with cloying melody,— Sit ye near some old cavern’s mouth, and brood Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quired!
To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone).
This has been often dinned in my Ears.
“Mamma, do you forget that I have promised to marry Roger Hamley?” said Cynthia quietly. “No! of course I don’t—how can I, with Molly always dinning the word ‘engagement’ into my ears? […]”
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6Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
Wiktionary[B]red to war, / He knew the battle’s din afar, / And joyed to hear it swell.
WiktionaryHow often, hither wandering down, My Arthur found your shadows fair, And shook to all the liberal air The dust and din and steam of town:
Wiktionary1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21, For, spite of rumbling of the wheels, A
WiktionaryMy confused senses received a dull roar of pounding feet and dinning voices as the herald of victory.
WiktionaryShould she speak of having been at the fire herself—or should she not? The question dinned in her brain so loudly that she could hardly hear what her companion was saying […]
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