Clanger vs. Clapper — What's the Difference?

A blunder; a faux pas.

One who applauds.

Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively).

The tongue of a bell.

The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.

(Slang) The tongue of a garrulous person.

A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.

Clappers Two flat pieces of wood held between the fingers and struck together rhythmically.

A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".

One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.

An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.

An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.

A cicada, Psaltoda claripennis, of New South Wales and Queensland, having an upper body of green and brown and clear wings with green veins.

A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.

Short for Bedfordshire clanger.

A clapstick musical instrument.

A conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; as, he dropped a clanger.

(sewing) A pounding block.

A conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate;

The chattering damsel of a mill.

(cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.

A person's tongue, as a source of chatter or nagging.

(obsolete) A rabbit burrow.

(transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.

To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.

Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.

A person who claps.

That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.

A rabbit burrow.

Someone who applauds

A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side