plink
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8.6
- noun
- /plɪŋk/
:
sonido metálico
- I heard a soft plink as the marble hit the tile floor.
- plink of water
- hear a plink
- tinny plink
Examples
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But even over the rush, rattle, thump, and plink of disturbed gems and Hassent landing on the marble, I heard every word.
Fiction book (2002) -
It was quieter here, and a resonant, periodic, almost crystalline "plink" warned us there was something strange ahead.
Fiction book (2001) -
How I love to hear that old money plink, that beautiful sound of cold, hard cash.
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Beyond, in the blackness, I heard the plink of dripping water.
Fiction book (1993) -
By mid-August, you could drop a pebble down the well and count to six before you heard the water plink.
Fiction book (1994) -
The plink, plank, pank sounds—onomatopoeia—went forth all day long.
Academic text (2000) -
It was silent—utterly silent—save for the plink of dripping water.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the pause, Eliot heard a distant plink, the single sharp piano plink of the lower shroud snapping, and then the crack of the main mast as it folded at its midsection into the sea.
Fiction book (2000) -
The musician created a light plink sound with his guitar string.
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Every time a raindrop hit the metal roof, it made a gentle plink.
Synonyms
19
5.3
A short, light sound made when glass or metal hit each other
18
6.4
A short, sharp high sound like metal being struck
15
7.3
A short, sharp sound when a ball or small thing hits a hard surface
13
6.0
A short, sharp sound made when hard things hit each other
12
4.4
A light clear ringing sound like a small bell
6
8.4
A light, clear ringing sound like a small bell or glass
How High-Pitched
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plink copies the little metallic sound 'plink' you hear when a tiny object hits metal or glass, a bit like the word ping. So a plink is simply that short, high, ringing sound.