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tin·kle

(tĭng′kəl)

v. tin·kled, tin·kling, tin·kles

v.intr.

1. To make light metallic sounds, as those of a small bell.

2. Informal To urinate.

v.tr.

1. To cause to tinkle.

2. To signal or call by tinkling.

1. A light, clear metallic sound or a sound suggestive of it.

2. An act or instance of tinkling.

[Middle English tinklen, frequentative of tinken, to emit a brief metallic sound, perhaps of imitative origin.]

tin′kly adj.

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Adj.

tinkling - like the short high ringing sound of a small bell; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"

tinkly

reverberant - having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"

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tinkling

[ˈtɪŋklɪŋ]

A. ADJ → que hace tilín
a tinkling sound → un tilín
a tinkling stream → un arroyo cantarín

B. N → tintineo m, tilín m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tinkling

n (of bells etc) → Klingen nt, → Bimmeln nt (inf); (of piano) → Klimpern nt; (of broken glass, ice cubes) → Klirren nt

adj bells → klingend, bimmelnd (inf); piano → klimpernd; broken glass, ice cubes → klirrend

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tinkling

[ˈtɪŋklɪŋ]

1. adj (sound) → tintinnante, argentino/a

2. n → tintinnio

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