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单词 din
释义

din1

/dɪn /
noun [in singular]
A loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise: the fans made an awful din...
  • In the background I read that towards the end of its life as a chapel in the convict period, free settlers got very cross with the fact that the convicts were making an awful din from under their pews.
  • In an instant, it was clear that the ward was an intolerably noisy place, flooded with a near-continuous din of screams, laughter, and loud vocalizations.
  • Every England fan had a whooping, whistling counterpart so we shouted louder until the din was indescribable.

Synonyms

uproar, racket, loud noise, confused noise, commotion, cacophony, babel, hubbub, tumult, fracas, clangour, crash, clatter, clash;
shouting, yelling, screaming, caterwauling, babble, babbling, clamour, outcry;
brouhaha, fuss, disturbance, ado;
pandemonium, bedlam, chaos, confusion;
Scottish & Northern English stramash
informal hullabaloo, rumpus, ruction
British informal row
rare vociferation, ululation, charivari
verb (dins, dinning, dinned)
1 [with object] (din something into) Make (someone) learn or remember an idea by constant repetition: a runner-up, he dinned into them, was a loser...
  • It is dinned into him that the wife must always be subordinate to the husband.
  • Only when the message that Labour isn't all that clever, after all, is dinned into the voters can National risk changing the subject to its own intentions.
  • It was dinned into us that wasting water was sinful.

Synonyms

instil, drive, drum, hammer, drill, implant, ingrain, inculcate;
teach over and over again, indoctrinate, brainwash
2 [no object] Make a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise: the sound dinned irritatingly into Marian’s head...
  • He opened the door and the noise dinned into the office.
  • An amplified quacking noise dinned from the speakers, and the image of an imprinting experiment, with a duckling following a moving wooden decoy around in circles appeared on the screen.

Synonyms

blare, blast, clang, clatter, crash, clamour

Origin

Old English dyne, dynn (noun), dynian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German tuni (noun) and Old Norse dynr (noun), dynja 'come rumbling down'.

Rhymes

DIN2

/dɪn /
noun
Any of a series of technical standards originating in Germany and used internationally, especially to designate electrical connections, film speeds, and paper sizes: [as modifier]: a DIN socket

Origin

Early 20th century: acronym from Deutsche Industrie-Norm 'German Industrial Standard' (as laid down by the Deutsches Institut für Normung 'German Institute for Standards').

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