din

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]

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]

English

Pronunciation

• , /dɪn/, /dIn/

• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

Old English dyne, from Germanic *duniz.

Noun

1. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

Translations

• Italian: clamore
• Latin: strepitus, clamor
• Telugu: గోల (gOla), గొడవ (goDava)

Etymology 2

Old English dynnan, from Germanic *dunjan, from the same stem as Etymology 1, above.

Verb

1. To be filled with sound; to resound.
2. To assail with loud noise.
3. To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.

   • 2003: His mother had dinned The Whole Duty of Man into him in early childhood — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 183)

4. To make a din.

Danish

Etymology

Old Norse þínn

Pronoun

din

1. your (speaking to one person)

Indonesian

Etymology

Noun

din

1. religion

Kiput

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *daqan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daqan.

Noun

din

1. branch

Malay

Noun

din

1. faith, religion

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic

Pronoun

din

1. this

Old High German

Etymology

Common Germanic *thinaz, whence also Old English þīn, Old Norse þínn

Pronoun

dīn

1. your (singular)

Romanian

Preposition

ro-prep a

1. on, on top of
2. from, out of

Swedish

Pronunciation

Pronoun

din (ditt , dina p)

1. your, yours; of one thing in the common gender (speaking to one person)

See also

• er

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic

Noun

din

1. religion

Volapük

Etymology

German Ding

Noun

din

1. thing

DIN or Din or din can have several meanings:-

• A din is a loud noise.
• Dīn, an Arabic term meaning "religion" or "way of life".
• Din (Kabbalah) is one of the ten aspects of the Ein Sof in Kabbalah (more commonly known as "Gevurah").
• DIN is the abbreviated name of the Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardization) and is used in the names of its standards, like:
  • DIN 476, as for example DIN A4, is a scale for paper sizes.
  • DIN connector, one of a number of electrical (audio/video/keyboard) connectors following DIN standards.
  • DIN fitting, a type of high-pressure air or gas connection used in some modern very high-pressure scuba gear.
  • DIN ISO 7736, size standard for car audio head units.
  • DIN rail, a common system for mounting circuit breakers and industrial control equipment inside equipment racks.
  • DIN ski binding scale, scale to ensure ski bindings release under the same force at all skiing destinations worldwide.
  • DIN 1451, German Standard Committee chosen typeface from 1936.
  • DIN 72552 is a standard for automobile electric terminal numbers
  • FF DIN, 1995 digital font
  • A unit for film speed
• Din (musician), an alias used by electronic music producer J.C. Cutz.
• Drug Identification Number - a unique number given to all drugs sold in Canada.
• Din is a character in The Legend of Zelda series.
• A Din is a member of the Harvard Din and Tonics
• Serbian dinar, a local acronym
• Din is also the hindi name for a day

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