tinkle
叮当,叮叮当当,叮当声,叮咛
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Definitions
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tin·kled, tin·kling.
- : to give forth or make a succession of short, light, ringing sounds, as a small bell.
- : to run one's fingers lightly over a keyboard instrument or to play such an instrument simply or badly.
- : Baby Talk. to urinate.
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tin·kled, tin·kling.
- : to cause to tinkle or jingle: The goat tinkled its bell every time it raised its head. Who's tinkling the piano?
- : to make known, call attention to, attract, or summon by tinkling.
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- : a tinkling sound or tune.
- : an act or instance of tinkling.
- : Informal. a telephone call: Give me a tinkle before you leave for Europe.
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Examples
When the news came out that Jackie director Pablo Larraín had cast her as Princess Diana, it sounded as if genius had struck with the perfectly tuned tinkle of a sterling dinner bell.
The third line runs thus: “How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night.”
We observe that as “time” is here repeated three times, so “tinkle” was repeated three times in the third line.
The blind came down with a rush, there was a little tinkle of glass, and the general staggered back with his hand to his shoulder.
Tinkle, tinkle went the bells The reindeer lifted their hoofs higher and pawed at the comforter.
The brook was whispering secret things, and the drip from the trees made a soft tinkle, just detectable, on its pools.