Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds. synonym: noise.
  • intransitive verb To stun with deafening noise.
  • intransitive verb To instill by wearying repetition.
  • intransitive verb To make a loud noise.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A judgment.
  • noun A law suit; a plea or cause.
  • noun A law or precept. There are four rabbinical codes containing all the dinim (precepts), ecclesiastical and secular, by which every dayan, or judge, is guided.
  • noun See pahad.
  • noun A loud noise of some duration; particularly, a rattling, clattering, or resonant sound, long continued: as, the din of arms.
  • To strike with continued or confused noise; vex with noise; harass with clamor or persistent protestations.
  • To press or force with clamor or with persistent repetition: as, to din one's complaints into everybody's ears.
  • To make a noise or clamor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To sound with a din; a ding.
  • noun Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
  • transitive verb To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor.
  • transitive verb To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
  • transitive verb to fix in the mind of another by frequent and noisy repetitions.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To be filled with sound; to resound.
  • verb transitive To assail with loud noise.
  • verb transitive To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.
  • verb intransitive To make a din.
  • noun A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb instill (into a person) by constant repetition
  • verb make a resonant sound, like artillery
  • noun the act of making a noisy disturbance
  • noun a loud harsh or strident noise

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English dine, from Old English dyne.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old English dynnan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjan, from the same stem as Etymology 1, above.

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From Old English dyne, from Proto-Germanic *

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Examples

  • The tool that eliminates background din is called "NewBlue Hum Remover" and is only discovered by opening Edit, Effects and an almost unnoticeable drop-down menu called Audio Effects.

    Video Editing Made Easier Katherine Boehret 2010

  • A nice steady din is critical to a creative environment, and the groups of people coming and going allowed for plenty of people-watching and lent their quirks to more than a few characters.

    My Cliché of Choice « Write Anything 2009

  • The din from the Left is expected since a flawed and immoral position was rammed down the throats of the People for so long, not to mention Gun Control was held for so long as a truism and main platform by the radical members Democratic Party.

    What's Wrong with this Picture? 2008

  • That din din you prepared sounds anything but scaled down; very nice!

    A LENNDEVOURS Valentine's Day 2007

  • I mean ... try saying those words to a nun. sana lang po b4 tayo magsalita isipin din natin tnx poSay that to her.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Sure their lawyers-are-coming-after-us paranoia gets a little tiresome after awhile, but that's just a symptom of our country's political climate, in which the only way to make sure you're heard above the din is to act slightly hysterical.

    Blog Reviews 2005

  • And there are a dozen adult roosters and hens now, with 13, count'em, chicks running around now, plus the usual feral cats which make their way over to our casa for din din and sterilization when we can catch them.

    ecommendations for budget place to stay/June '05 2005

  • The U.S. Open champion blocked out the din from the Slovak crowd Sunday and kept the United States in the top tier of the Davis Cup.

    USATODAY.com - United States defeats Slovakia to stay in Davis Cup's top level 2003

  • The first impression of all, overmastering everything else for a while, is the frightful, deafening din from the conveyor belt which carries the coal away.

    Down the Mine 1937

  • The first impression of all, overmastering everything else for a while, is the frightful, deafening din from the conveyor belt which carries the coal away.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

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  • "The noise level was unearthly, for not just every house, but every occupant of every room in every house, had a different idea of the exact kind of popular music that would make the day go with a swing. In order to be heard everybody screamed like a macaw. In case any chink of silence should remain to disfigure the perfect din, most houses kept a pair of green parrots with clipped wings that peeped out from their homes under refrigerators and gas cookers and shrieked until the sky rang."

    - 'The São Francisco', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.

    September 1, 2008

  • spotted as text speak for 'didn't'

    spotted phrase on twitter "sometimes i just really love this dude pero sometimes din i just wna kill him :) "

    the examples spotted by twitter are mostly a word in Filipino usage meaning 'too' as in '... just eat too'

    January 14, 2021