CLATTER


Meaning of CLATTER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ klætə(r) ]

( clatters, clattering, clattered)

1.

If you say that people or things clatter somewhere, you mean that they move there noisily.

He turned and clattered down the stairs.

VERB : V prep / adv

2.

If something hard clatters , it makes repeated short noises as it hits against another hard thing. ( LITERARY )

She set her cup down, and it clattered against the saucer.

VERB : V prep

Clatter is also a noun.

From somewhere distant he heard the clatter of a typewriter.

N-SING : usu with supp

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