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tinkling
noun 3adj 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
cymbal
VERB + TINKLING
bike
TINKLING + NOUN
piano
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A tinkle; a tinkling sound.
The merry piano tinklings were gone.
2
The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
3
The action of the verb to tinkle
adj
1
That tinkles.
"A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you.
American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, you are like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
2
That works as a tinker
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — like the short high ringing sound of a small bell
- tinkly
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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The merry piano tinklings were gone.
Wiktionary02
"A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you.
Wiktionary03
American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and
Wiktionary04
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not mercy, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Tatoeba · #479395305
I have a bell on my bike. Its tinkling sound keeps the bears away.
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