din1
/dɪn
/noun [in singular]
A loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise: the fans made an awful din...
- In the background I read that towards the end of its life as a chapel in the convict period, free settlers got very cross with the fact that the convicts were making an awful din from under their pews.
- In an instant, it was clear that the ward was an intolerably noisy place, flooded with a near-continuous din of screams, laughter, and loud vocalizations.
- Every England fan had a whooping, whistling counterpart so we shouted louder until the din was indescribable.
Synonyms
uproar, racket, loud noise, confused noise, commotion, cacophony, babel, hubbub, tumult, fracas, clangour, crash, clatter, clash;
shouting, yelling, screaming, caterwauling, babble, babbling, clamour, outcry;
brouhaha, fuss, disturbance, ado;
pandemonium, bedlam, chaos, confusion;
Scottish & Northern English stramash
informal hullabaloo, rumpus, ruction
British informal row
rare vociferation, ululation, charivari
verb (dins, dinning, dinned)
1 [with object] (din something into) Make (someone) learn or remember an idea by constant repetition: a runner-up, he dinned into them, was a loser...
- It is dinned into him that the wife must always be subordinate to the husband.
- Only when the message that Labour isn't all that clever, after all, is dinned into the voters can National risk changing the subject to its own intentions.
- It was dinned into us that wasting water was sinful.
Synonyms
instil, drive, drum, hammer, drill, implant, ingrain, inculcate;
teach over and over again, indoctrinate, brainwash
2 [no object] Make a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise: the sound dinned irritatingly into Marian’s head...
- He opened the door and the noise dinned into the office.
- An amplified quacking noise dinned from the speakers, and the image of an imprinting experiment, with a duckling following a moving wooden decoy around in circles appeared on the screen.
Synonyms
blare, blast, clang, clatter, crash, clamour
Origin
Old English dyne, dynn (noun), dynian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German tuni (noun) and Old Norse dynr (noun), dynja 'come rumbling down'.
Rhymes
DIN2
/dɪn/noun
Any of a series of technical standards originating in Germany and used internationally, especially to designate electrical connections, film speeds, and paper sizes: [as modifier]: a DIN socket
Origin
Early 20th century: acronym from Deutsche Industrie-Norm 'German Industrial Standard' (as laid down by the Deutsches Institut für Normung 'German Institute for Standards').