Difference between Clapper and Tongue

What is the difference between Clapper and Tongue?

Clapper as a noun is an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring. while Tongue as a noun is the flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.

Clapper

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.

Tongue

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.A language.In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot, so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth.Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive, a machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).to kiss involving the touching of both tongues, and/or licking.

Example sentence: There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

We hope you now know whether to use Clapper or Tongue in your sentence.

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