din
noun
[ dɪn ]
• a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise.
• "the fans made an awful din"
Similar:
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,
stramash,
hullabaloo,
rumpus,
ruction,
row,
vociferation,
ululation,
charivari,
din
verb
• make (someone) learn or remember an idea by constant repetition.
• "a runner-up, he dinned into them, was a loser"
Similar:
instil,
drive,
drum,
hammer,
drill,
implant,
ingrain,
inculcate,
teach over and over again,
indoctrinate,
brainwash,
• make a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise.
• "the sound dinned irritatingly into Marian's head"
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’.
DIN
noun
• any of a series of technical standards originating in Germany and used internationally, especially to designate electrical connections, film speeds, and paper sizes.
• "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’).
