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DIN

name
/dɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English dyne, dynne, from Old English dyne, from Proto-West Germanic *duni, from Proto-Germanic *duniz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰún-is, from *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”). Cognate with English tone, Sanskrit धुनि (dhúni, “sounding”), ध्वनति (dhvánati, “to make a noise, to roar”), Old Norse dynr, Norwegian Nynorsk dynja, Swedish dån, dön.

  1. inherited from *duniz✻
  2. inherited from *duni✻
  3. inherited from dyne
  4. inherited from dyne

Definitions

  1. The German Institute for Standardization.

  2. A loud noise

    A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

    • Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
    • [B]red to war, / He knew the battle’s din afar, / And joyed to hear it swell.
    • How often, hither wandering down, My Arthur found your shadows fair, And shook to all the liberal air The dust and din and steam of town:

  3. To make a din, to resound.

    • My confused senses received a dull roar of pounding feet and dinning voices as the herald of victory.
    • Should she speak of having been at the fire herself—or should she not? The question dinned in her brain so loudly that she could hardly hear what her companion was saying […]
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.

      • The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]

    2. To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.

      • Oh ye! whose ears are dinn’d with uproar rude, Or fed too much with cloying melody,— Sit ye near some old cavern’s mouth, and brood Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quired!
      • No alarm-clock dinned her to get up but the morning light woke her, pouring through the uncurtained glass.

    3. To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting…

      To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone).

      • This has been often dinned in my Ears.
      • “Mamma, do you forget that I have promised to marry Roger Hamley?” said Cynthia quietly. “No! of course I don’t—how can I, with Molly always dinning the word ‘engagement’ into my ears? […]”

    4. Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”).

    5. A surname from Khmer.

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Derived

outdin, unbedinned

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for DIN. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA