| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To burn or bake.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb clack.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (clack) | 1. Make a rattling sound.[Wordnet]. 2. Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens.[Wordnet]. 3. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.[Wordnet]. 4. To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.[Websters]. 5. To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.[Websters]. 6. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.[Websters]. 7. To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: clacking, clacked, clacks, clacker, clackers, clackingly and clackedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CLACKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CLACKING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Making a sharp, abrupt sound, continually repeated; talking continually; tattling; rattling with the tongue.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of clack. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: clack
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Clack box | (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Clack dish | A dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. --Shak. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Clack door | (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Clack valve | 1: (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Jennifer A. Clack | Jennifer A. Clack is a British paleontologist, an expert in the theory of evolution. She studies the "fish to tetrapod" transition— the origin, evolutionary development and radiation of early tetrapods and their relatives among the lobe-finned fishes. She is best-known for her book Gaining Ground: The Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods, published in 2002 and written with the layman in mind. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: clack
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Clack Dish | Literature | 1: A dish or basin with a movable lid. Some two or three centuries ago beggars used to proclaim their want by clacking the lid of a wooden dish. 2: "Why, begging, sir." Family of Love (1608). 3: "Can you think I get my living by a bell and clack-dish? 4: ... "How's that?. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Clack seat | Mining | The rim or seat on which the hinged lid or flapper of a clack valve closes. (references) | |
| Clack valve | Mechanical Engineering | Device for controlling fluid flow, for example into and out of piston engine cylinder or into/out of aerostat, especially aircraft. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Clack valve | Mining | A valve having a lidlike piece hinged on one side within a chamber that permits the flow of a fluid or gas to proceed in one direction only. Usually, the check valve on the pickup end of a drill-pump suction hose is a clack-type valve. Also called chock valve; flap valve; flapper valve;foot valve. (references) | |
| Clack valve | Transportation | In plumbing, a type of valve in which back flow of a liquid is prevented by a hinged metal flap fitted in an intercepting chamber, so as to allow the flow of water in one direction only. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Valve clack of a check valve | Mechanical Engineering | A check mechanism which pivots about a joint pin. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: clack | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Clack Stone | 27 | Boyd Clack | 4 | |
| Jim Clack | 9 | Brenda Clack | 5 | |
| Peter Clack | 9 | Clack | 5 | |
| Kris Clack | 8 | Clack Island (Queensland) | 5 | |
| Brenda Clack | 5 | Clack Stone | 27 | |
| Clack Island (Queensland) | 5 | Jennifer A. Clack | 4 | |
| Clack | 5 | Jim Clack | 9 | |
| Boyd Clack | 4 | Kris Clack | 8 | |
| Jennifer A. Clack | 4 | Peter Clack | 9 | |
| Zoanne Clack | 3 | Zoanne Clack | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
