单词	clatter
释义	clatterclat‧ter /ˈklætə $ -ər/ verb Word Origin WORD ORIGINclatter Origin: Old English clatrian Verb Table VERB TABLE clatter Simple Form Present I, you, we, they clatter he, she, it clatters Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they clattered Present perfect I, you, we, they have clattered he, she, it has clattered Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had clattered Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will clatter Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have clattered Continuous Form Present I am clattering he, she, it is clattering you, we, they are clattering Past I, he, she, it was clattering you, we, they were clattering Present perfect I, you, we, they have been clattering he, she, it has been clattering Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been clattering Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be clattering Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been clattering Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES All the pots clattered to the floor. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Boldly he kicked loose stones off the ledges and heard them clatter into the silence below. He picked out something from the shelves and made a clattering U-turn. Her heart was clattering inside her. Her splayed arms sent the dishes clattering. His gun clattered noisily to the floor. Wyatt hoisted himself up into the truck and began to push and shove the rest of the load on to the clattering pile. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsounds made by something hitting or falling onto something► bang a loud sound caused especially when something hard or heavy hits something else or falls on a surface: · I heard a loud bang - it sounded like something had fallen down upstairs.make a bang: · Small children are often frightrened of fireworks that make a bang.close/land/collide etc with a bang: · The lid of the box fell shut with a bang. ► thud the low dull sound produced when something heavy but soft hits something else or falls on a surface: · I heard a shot, followed by a thud as his body hit the floor.hit/drop/land etc with a thud: · A snowball hit her on the back of the neck with a soft thud.the thud of: · Suddenly we heard the thud of horses' hooves. ► crack a loud sudden very sharp sound like the sound of a stick being broken: · The branch broke with a sudden crack.· As I hit the floor, I heard a loud crack in my arm. ► crash the very loud sound produced when something hard such as metal or glass hits something else or falls on a surface, especially when damage is caused: · There was a loud crash in the bedroom and my dad started yelling.fall/land/hit etc something with a crash: · The whole tray of dishes fell to the floor with a crash. ► clatter the loud sound produced when a lot of hard things hit against each other or hit a hard surface: · The clatter in the kitchen told me that Mum was already up.fall/drop etc something with a clatter: · Bert put down his tools with a clatter, and looked round the room.the clatter of something: · Just then there was the clatter of hooves on the road outside. ► bump the dull, fairly quiet sound produced when something such as part of your body hits something or falls against a surface: · At night, the old house seemed to be full of strange creaks and bumps.fall/sit down/hit etc something with a bump: · Martin sat down suddenly with a bump. ► thump the dull, fairly loud sound produced when something heavy suddenly hits something else or falls hard on a surface: · There was a loud thump as Eddie threw Luther back against the wall.hit something/fall etc with a thump: · A suitcase toppled off the top of the wardrobe and landed on the floor with a thump. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► down · Willie rose and clattered down the hallway.· Massive curtains of rain clattered down from wrathful skies, and the streets were full of swishing Audis and Mercedes.· The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs.· She clattered down the steps - noise is reassuring - and entered the church.· Helpless, he toppled forward into blackness: his hand went limp and the knife clattered down on to the foot-rest.· I raced back to the house, clattered down the hall and jumped behind the wheel of my Nova.· I clattered down the street-my heels noisy as castanets on the kerb-through to the market.· He clattered down the stairs two, three at a time, and almost fell when he reached the bottom. NOUN► floor · As he yanked one out for himself, something clattered loudly to the floor.· The phone clattered to the shower floor.· Something clattered on the tile floor, behind a frothing bed of shrubs.· They clatter on to the floor loudly.· His gun clattered noisily to the floor.· Something heavy fell out of his pocket and clattered to the floor and lay hunched and dark. ► stair · Two hours later we clatter down the stairs of a West End restaurant feeling like two plum puddings on legs.· The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs.· He clattered down the stairs two, three at a time, and almost fell when he reached the bottom.· I just flourished an arm and clattered down the stairs.· They heard her clatter down the basement stairs to her room.· The soldier walked ahead of me, holding his sword in his left hand so that it didn't clatter against the stairs. 1[intransitive] if heavy hard objects clatter, or if you clatter them, they make a loud unpleasant noise:  The tray slipped and clattered to the floor.2[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to move quickly and noisily:  children clattering up and down the stairs—clatter noun [singular, uncountable]:  the clatter of dishes
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