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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Din \Din\, verb (used without an object) To sound with a din; a ding.
The gay viol dinning in the dale. --A. Seward.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Din \Din\ (d[i^]n), noun [AS. dyne, dyn; akin to Icel. dynr, and to AS. dynian to resound, Icel. dynja to pour down like hail or rain; cf. Skr. dhuni roaring, a torrent, dhvan to sound. Cf. {Dun} to ask payment.] Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? --Shak.
He knew the battle's din afar. --Sir W. Scott.
The dust and din and steam of town. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Din \Din\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dinned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dinning}.] [AS. dynian. See {Din}, noun]
1. To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.
2. To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
This hath been often dinned in my ears. --Swift.
{To din into}, to fix in the mind of another by frequent and noisy repetitions. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
din
noun
1: a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: {blare}, {blaring}, {cacophony}, {clamor}]
2: the act of making a noisy disturbance [syn: {commotion}, {ruction}, {ruckus}, {rumpus}, {tumult}]
verb
1: make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall" [syn: {boom}]
2: instill (into a person) by constant repetition; "he dinned the lessons into his students" [also: {dinning}, {dinned}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
DIN Deutsche Institut fuer Normung. The German standardisation body, a member of {ISO}.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
DIN Deutsches Institut fuer Normung (org.)
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