twang

«twang» in Mova's school dictionary: a sharp, ringing sound like the sound of a tight string… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a twang, twangs); verb (twang, twangs, twanged, twanging)

meaning for a pupil

1) A twang is a sharp, ringing sound like the sound of a tight string being plucked. tree →

2) A twang is a way of speaking where the voice sounds partly through the nose, often part of an accent: «a Southern twang». tree →

3) To twang is to make that sound, or to pluck a string so it makes it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In music and science lessons on sound, a plucked rubber band or guitar string twangs; a tighter or shorter string makes a higher twang. In stories «a twang» of an accent tells the reader where a character comes from. Phrases: «the twang of a guitar», «a country twang», «an Australian twang».

examples

• The guitar string made a loud twang. tree →
• He twanged the rubber band across the box. tree →
• She spoke with a slight American twang. tree →
• The arrow left the bow with a twang. tree →
• Stretch the band tighter for a higher twang. tree →
• The banjo twanged in the background. tree →
• Grandpa has a Texan twang. tree →
• He bent his bow and the sinewy string twanged. tree →

note

Plural: twangs. Past: twanged. «Twang» is an onomatopoeia — the word sounds like the noise it names.

In the corpora

• Maddie, with her new Aussie twang, can't follow a word.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «twang» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.