Describing sound can be very difficult for a non-native speaker. Here is a table of sound description from internet.
No | Sound | Description |
---|---|---|
1 | Banging | Slamming a wooden screen door |
2 | Bonging | Hitting a large gong |
3 | Booming | Rumble of distant thunder |
4 | Buzzing | Electric razor |
5 | Chafing | Rubbing dry hands together |
6 | Chattering | Windshield wipers across a dry windshield |
7 | Chirping | Bird or cricket call |
8 | Clacking | Railroad car wheels rolling on a track |
9 | Clanging | Cow bell or dinner bell |
10 | Clanking | Wrench dropped on concrete |
11 | Clapping | Hands clapping |
12 | Clashing | Cymbals hitting together |
13 | Clattering | Falling bowling pins |
14 | Clicking | Extending and retracting a ballpoint pen |
15 | Clinking | Empty bottles hitting each other |
16 | Clunking | Slamming a heavy wooden door |
17 | Cracking | Ice cubes breaking when dropped in water |
18 | Crackling | Wood burning in a fireplace |
19 | Creaking | Opening a door with rusty hinges |
20 | Croaking | Frog call |
21 | Crunching | Walking on dry snow |
22 | Droning | Distant propeller-driven airplane |
23 | Drumming | Nervous fingers tapping a desk |
24 | Fluttering | Flag flapping in the wind |
25 | Grating | Shovel raked over pavement |
26 | Grinding | Sharpening a tool on a grinding wheel |
27 | Groaning | Twisting wooden beam on a ship |
28 | Growling | Dog protecting his food |
29 | Gurgling | Water down a bathtub drain |
30 | Hissing | Leaking tire |
31 | Hooting | Owl call |
32 | Howling | Wind blowing through a leaky door |
33 | Humming | High-voltage transformer |
34 | Jingling | Keys hitting each other |
35 | Knocking | Knuckles rapping a wooden door |
36 | Moaning | Blowing across the top of an empty bottle |
37 | Oil canning | Flexing a metal gas can |
38 | Pattering | Rain drops hitting a window |
39 | Pinging | Pebbles rolling around in a tin can |
40 | Popping | Cork coming out of a champagne bottle |
41 | Pounding | Hitting your fist on a desk |
42 | Rapping | Judge using a gavel |
43 | Roaring | Speeding 4脳4 truck with open-tread tires |
44 | Rumbling | Bowling ball rolling down an alley |
45 | Scratching | Rubbing two pieces of paper together |
46 | Slapping | Dribbling a basketball on a hardwood floor |
47 | Squealing | Skidding tires |
48 | Ticking | Tapping a pencil point on a desk |
49 | Whining | Distant siren |
50 | Whistling | Steam coming out of a tea kettle |
51 | rattle | Disk brake pad hitting disk |
No | Sound | Description |
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