Căutare în Webster - Dicționarul explicativ al limbii engleze

Pentru căutare rapidă introduceți minim 3 litere.

 

JINGLE - Definiția din dicționar

Traducere: română


Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.

Jin"gle (?), v. i. [OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E. chink; cf. also E. jangle.]
[1913 Webster]

1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also gingle.]
[1913 Webster]

2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. “Jingling street ballads.” Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

 

Jin"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jingled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Jingling (?).] To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
[1913 Webster]

The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope.
[1913 Webster]

 

Jin"gle, n. 1. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
[1913 Webster]

If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly. Bacon.
[1913 Webster]

3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, a rhyming verse of no poetical merit. “ The least jingle of verse.” Guardian.
The verses used in commercial advertisements are often called jingles, especially when sung.
[1913 Webster]

Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold.
[1913 Webster]