Difference between Tinkle and Clink

What is the difference between Tinkle and Clink?

Tinkle as a verb is to make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell while Clink as a verb is to make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

Tinkle

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell to urinate. To cause to tinkle To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes

Clink

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.Jail or prison, after the Clink prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase .Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

We hope you now know whether to use Tinkle or Clink in your sentence.

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