din

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

din, n. any of a series of technical standards originating in W. Germany and used internationally, esp. to designate electrical connections, film speeds, and paper sizes.

Etymology

G, f. Deutsche Industrie- Norm

din, n. & v.
--n. a prolonged loud and distracting noise.
--v. (dinned, dinning)
1 tr. (foll. by into) instil (something to be learned) by constant repetition.
2 intr. make a din.

Etymology

OE dyne, dynn, dynian f. Gmc

THESAURUS

din

Bedlam let loose, awake the dead, babel, beat, bedlam, blast, blast the ear, blatancy, bobbery, boisterousness, boom, brawl, brouhaha, charivari, chirm, clamor, clamorousness, clangor, clap, clash, clatter, commotion, crash, crescendo, deafen, ding, discord, donnybrook, drum, drunken brawl, dustup, fill the air, flap, fracas, free-for-all, hammer, hell broke loose, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, jangle, loud noise, music, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, peal, percussion, pound, racket, rattle, rattle the windows, rend the air, rend the ears, resound, rhubarb, ring, rise, roar, rock the sky, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, shivaree, sound, split the eardrums, split the ears, startle the echoes, stridency, stun, surge, swell, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, tumult, uproar

ROGET THESAURUS

din

Loudness

N loudness, power, loud noise, din, blare, clang, clangor, clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom, bang (explosion), resonance, vociferation, hullabaloo, lungs, Stentor, artillery, cannon, thunder, loud, sonorous, high-sounding, big-sounding, deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous, thundering, deafening, trumpet-tongued, ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-deafening, piercing, obstreperous, rackety, uproarious, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers, shrill &c 410 clamorous stentorian, stentorophonic, loudly, aloud, at the top of one's voice, at the top of one's lungs, lustily, in full cry, the air rings with, the deep dread-bolted thunder.