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English translation: clang/clanked = made a metallic sound/metal striking metal

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English term or phrase:clanged
Selected answer:clang/clanked = made a metallic sound/metal striking metal
Entered by: Roberto Rey

15:31 Aug 14, 2009
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Automotive / Cars & Trucks / Traffic in the US
English term or phrase: clanged
This is from Philip Dick's novel (1950s, San Francisco):

"Outside, on Fillmore Street, a group of men walked by, noisy and abusive. A car honked. ***Traffic signals clanged***. She felt a hollowness inside her."

What kind of sound is that? Is this the switching over of traffic lights? What does the sound itself remind?
Alexander Alexandrov
Russian Federation
Local time: 02:15
clang/clanked = made a metallic sound/metal striking metal
Explanation:
Old traffic lights hanged over intersecting streets and with the wind they used to bang each other, as they were very close together.
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Roberto Rey
Colombia
Local time: 18:15
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3 +4clang/clanked = made a metallic sound/metal striking metal
Roberto Rey
4 +1resounded/clattered/blared
eski


  

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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
clang/clanked = made a metallic sound/metal striking metal


Explanation:
Old traffic lights hanged over intersecting streets and with the wind they used to bang each other, as they were very close together.

Roberto Rey
Colombia
Local time: 18:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  jccantrell: They also used to have moving signes that swung out the side of the signal in addition to the light. This might also be the source of the noise.
10 mins
agree  Jenni Lukac (X)
14 hrs
agree  Polangmar
22 hrs
agree  Demi Ebrite
1 day 2 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
resounded/clattered/blared


Explanation:
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/clang

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mostly because of the way the traffic signals work out, I bypass Juniper ... The air is full of the clatter of their activity: the ripping whirr of ...
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be filled with sound; reverberate: The schoolyard resounded with the ... ways before crossing the street, stop at traffic signals and avoid collisions. ...
www.thefreelibrary.com/KIDS LEARN TO STEER CLEAR OF DANGER.... - En caché - Similares


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Saludos :))

eski
Mexico
Local time: 17:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Demi Ebrite: I am unable to describe the sound referred to, but I believe it is associated with street cars, trolly cars.
20 hrs
  -> Sounds loud; perhaps "resounded" workd here; Thanks & saludos, Demi :)) eski
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