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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
clatter
clat‧ter/ˈklætə $ -ər/ verb [Language : Old English; Origin : clatrian] 1. [INTRANSITIVE] if heavy hard objects clatter, or if you clatter them, they make a loud unpleasant noise: ▪ The tray slipped and clattered to the floor.
2. [INTRANSITIVE ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION] to move quickly and noisily: ▪ children clattering up and down the stairs
—clatter noun [SINGULAR, UNCOUNTABLE]: ▪ the clatter of dishes
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADVERB down ▪ Willie rose and clattered down the hallway. ▪ Massive curtains of rain clattered down from wrathful skies, and the streets were full of swishing Audis and Mercedes. ▪ The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs. ▪ She clattered down the steps - noise is reassuring - and entered the church. ▪ Helpless, he toppled forward into blackness: his hand went limp and the knife clattered down on to the foot-rest. ▪ I raced back to the house, clattered down the hall and jumped behind the wheel of my Nova. ▪ I clattered down the street-my heels noisy as castanets on the kerb-through to the market. ▪ He clattered down the stairs two, three at a time, and almost fell when he reached the bottom. NOUN floor ▪ As he yanked one out for himself, something clattered loudly to the floor. ▪ The phone clattered to the shower floor. ▪ Something clattered on the tile floor, behind a frothing bed of shrubs. ▪ They clatter on to the floor loudly. ▪ His gun clattered noisily to the floor. ▪ Something heavy fell out of his pocket and clattered to the floor and lay hunched and dark. stair ▪ Two hours later we clatter down the stairs of a West End restaurant feeling like two plum puddings on legs. ▪ The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs. ▪ He clattered down the stairs two, three at a time, and almost fell when he reached the bottom. ▪ I just flourished an arm and clattered down the stairs. ▪ They heard her clatter down the basement stairs to her room. ▪ The soldier walked ahead of me, holding his sword in his left hand so that it didn't clatter against the stairs. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ All the pots clattered to the floor. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Boldly he kicked loose stones off the ledges and heard them clatter into the silence below. ▪ He picked out something from the shelves and made a clattering U-turn. ▪ Her heart was clattering inside her. ▪ Her splayed arms sent the dishes clattering. ▪ His gun clattered noisily to the floor. ▪ Wyatt hoisted himself up into the truck and began to push and shove the rest of the load on to the clattering pile.
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