DIN (dinned, dinning)

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Irregular inflected forms: dinned    , dinning   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does din mean? 

• DIN (noun)
  The noun DIN has 2 senses:

1. a loud harsh or strident noise

2. the act of making a noisy disturbance

  Familiarity information: DIN used as a noun is rare.

• DIN (verb)
  The verb DIN has 2 senses:

1. make a resonant sound, like artillery

2. instill (into a person) by constant repetition

  Familiarity information: DIN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loud harsh or strident noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

blare; blaring; cacophony; clamor; din

Hypernyms ("din" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

din (make a resonant sound, like artillery)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of making a noisy disturbance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

commotion; din; ruckus; ruction; rumpus; tumult

Hypernyms ("din" is a kind of...):

disturbance (the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "din"):

ado; bustle; flurry; fuss; hustle; stir (a rapid active commotion)

• DIN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they din    ... he / she / it dins   
Past simple: dinned   
Past participle: dinned   
-ing form: dinning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a resonant sound, like artillery

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

boom; din

Context example:

His deep voice boomed through the hall

Hypernyms (to "din" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

din (a loud harsh or strident noise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Instill (into a person) by constant repetition

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

he dinned the lessons into his students

Hypernyms (to "din" is one way to...):

inculcate; infuse; instill (teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

In the very heart of the herd the din was terrific.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The roar of it no longer dinned upon his ears.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The din was on the causeway: a horse was coming; the windings of the lane yet hid it, but it approached.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The modest claim of Singletree, Darnley & Co. was lost in the din.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For, hark ye: granting, propter argumentum, that I am a talker, then the true reasoning runs that since all men of sense should avoid me, and thou hast not avoided me, but art at the present moment eating herrings with me under a holly-bush, ergo you are no man of sense, which is exactly what I have been dinning into your long ears ever since I first clapped eyes on your sunken chops.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The din was frightful.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Didn't I know it! But how little you think of the rightful umbleness of a person in my station, Master Copperfield! Father and me was both brought up at a foundation school for boys; and mother, she was likewise brought up at a public, sort of charitable, establishment. They taught us all a deal of umbleness—not much else that I know of, from morning to night. We was to be umble to this person, and umble to that; and to pull off our caps here, and to make bows there; and always to know our place, and abase ourselves before our betters. And we had such a lot of betters! Father got the monitor-medal by being umble. So did I. Father got made a sexton by being umble. He had the character, among the gentlefolks, of being such a well-behaved man, that they were determined to bring him in. “Be umble, Uriah,” says father to me, “and you'll get on. It was what was always being dinned into you and me at school; it's what goes down best. Be umble,” says father, “and you'll do!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Needless to say the arena was crowded with hosts of lesser lights, and the dust and sweat and din became terrific.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At first I din' notice we'd stopped.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

However, as they had left their cars blocking the road a harsh discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time and added to the already violent confusion of the scene.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)