DIN
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DIN¹
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German DIN.
proper noun
- The German Institute for Standardization.
din²
- /dɪn/
Sounds like den (pin–pen merger) · Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English dyne, dynne, from Old English dyne, from Proto-West Germanic *duni, from Proto-Germanic *duniz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰún-is, from *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”).
Cognate with English tone, Sanskrit धुनि (dhúni, “sounding”), ध्वनति (dhvánati, “to make a noise, to roar”), Old Norse dynr, Norwegian Nynorsk dynja, Swedish dån, dön.
din³
- /dɪn/
Sounds like den (pin–pen merger) · Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English dynnen, from Old English dynnan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”).
verb dins · dinning · dinned
- To make a din, to resound. 1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21, For, spite of rumbling of the wheels, A welcome greeting he can hear;— It is a fiddle in its glee Dinning from the CHERRY TREE!
- (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]
- To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise. 1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder: or Political Essays, London: D. Midwinter & J. Tonson, No. 8, 16 January, 1716, pp. 45-46, She ought in such Cases to exert the Authority of the Curtain Lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious Disposition, to tame him, as they do Birds of Prey, by dinning
- To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone). This has been often dinned in my Ears.
din⁴
- /dɪn/
Sounds like den (pin–pen merger) · Rhymes with -ɪn
Din⁵
Where it comes from
From Khmer ឌិន (dɨn).
proper noun Dins
- A surname from Khmer.
