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Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.
Ricky Martin

Meaning of "clung" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CLUNG

clung  [klʌŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLUNG

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Clung is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb clung in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CLUNG

PRESENT

Present
I cling
you cling
he/she/it clings
we cling
you cling
they cling
Present continuous
I am clinging
you are clinging
he/she/it is clinging
we are clinging
you are clinging
they are clinging
Present perfect
I have clung
you have clung
he/she/it has clung
we have clung
you have clung
they have clung
Present perfect continuous
I have been clinging
you have been clinging
he/she/it has been clinging
we have been clinging
you have been clinging
they have been clinging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I clung
you clung
he/she/it clung
we clung
you clung
they clung
Past continuous
I was clinging
you were clinging
he/she/it was clinging
we were clinging
you were clinging
they were clinging
Past perfect
I had clung
you had clung
he/she/it had clung
we had clung
you had clung
they had clung
Past perfect continuous
I had been clinging
you had been clinging
he/she/it had been clinging
we had been clinging
you had been clinging
they had been clinging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will cling
you will cling
he/she/it will cling
we will cling
you will cling
they will cling
Future continuous
I will be clinging
you will be clinging
he/she/it will be clinging
we will be clinging
you will be clinging
they will be clinging
Future perfect
I will have clung
you will have clung
he/she/it will have clung
we will have clung
you will have clung
they will have clung
Future perfect continuous
I will have been clinging
you will have been clinging
he/she/it will have been clinging
we will have been clinging
you will have been clinging
they will have been clinging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would clung
you would clung
he/she/it would clung
we would clung
you would clung
they would clung
Conditional continuous
I would be clinging
you would be clinging
he/she/it would be clinging
we would be clinging
you would be clinging
they would be clinging
Conditional perfect
I would have clung
you would have clung
he/she/it would have clung
we would have clung
you would have clung
they would have clung
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been clinging
you would have been clinging
he/she/it would have been clinging
we would have been clinging
you would have been clinging
they would have been clinging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you cling
we let´s cling
you cling
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to cling
Past participle
clung
Present Participle
clinging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLUNG


aqualung
ˈækwəˌlʌŋ
flung
flʌŋ
low-slung
ˌləʊˈslʌŋ
lung
lʌŋ
slung
slʌŋ
underslung
ˌʌndəˈslʌŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLUNG

clumper
clumpiness
clumpish
clumpy
clumsier
clumsiest
clumsily
clumsiness
clumsy
clunch
Cluniac
clunk
clunker
clunkier
clunkiest
clunky
Cluny
Cluny lace
clupeid
clupeoid

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLUNG

angklung
anklung
black lung
bremsstrahlung
Ch´ien-lung
Chilung
coal miner´s lung
far-flung
farmer´s lung
green lung
iron lung
Keelung
Kilung
Nebelung
Nibelung
Ring of the Nibelung
Sturmabteilung
unslung

Synonyms and antonyms of clung in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CLUNG»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «clung» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of clung
clasp · clutch · embrace · grasp · grip · hug · stick to

Translation of «clung» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLUNG

Find out the translation of clung to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of clung from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «clung» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

抱定
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aferraban
570 millions of speakers

English

clung
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चिपके
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تمسكوا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

цеплялся
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

clung
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছেড়ে গেল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

s´accrochaient
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berpaut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

klammerte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

clung
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전해진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Clung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bám
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நெருக்கமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्लिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sarıldı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

clung
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

clung
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чіплявся
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agăță
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επέμενε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vasgeklou
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

clung
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

klamret
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of clung

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLUNG»

The term «clung» is very widely used and occupies the 15.189 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLUNG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «clung» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «clung» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about clung

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4 QUOTES WITH «CLUNG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word clung.
1
Stewart Copeland
People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.
2
Ricky Martin
Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.
3
David O. Selznick
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
4
David Tang
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLUNG»

Discover the use of clung in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to clung and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Clung
These are the wry amused colourful poems of a woman stuck at home with small children and listening to the radio, which brings other worlds, new words and voices, into the midst of their domestic life.
Sonja Yelich, 2013
2
Dream-Clung, Gone
Poetry. "Lauren Russell casts a sharp eye on the urban landscape around her, carving profiles and cutting out silhouettes from real experience.
Lauren Russell, 2012
3
Conjugaison des verbes anglais irreguliers
Present présent  I cling  You cling  He clings  We cling  You cling  They cling Preterite passé simple  I clung  You clung  He clung  We clung  You clung  They clung Future futur simple  I will cling  You will cling  He will ...
pierre elemento
4
Clung
There was a mystery about Clung's birth, but none about his skill with weapons. Destined to work in a Chinese laundry, Clung changes direction when he kills several men and becomes an outlaw.
Max Brand, 2009
5
Condensed Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of the ...
With Copious Notes of Parallel Cases in the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the United States United States. Supreme Court, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton Richard Peters. [M'Clung v. ltoss.] 5 Wheaton's Reports ...
United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters, Alexander James Dallas, 1833
6
Always Ready; or Every One in his Pride. A novel; by a ...
At six, she linger'd on the shore, lClung, clung] With uplift hands and broken- hearted. [Clung, clung] At seven, while taut'ning the fore stay, [Clung, clung] I saw her faint, or else 'twas fancy. [Clung, clung] At eight, when we got under weigh, ...
7
Women Reformed, Women Empowered: Poor Mothers and the ...
I got pulled out the first time until she was three years old, and she was with me, clung to me, stuck to me. I mean, she first started coming [to Head Start], she cried all the time and stuff. She didn't want to ride the bus, and I'd be here at school.
Lynda J. Ames, 1997
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
indignity. Hero the matter ended. Bnt some time afterward, Colonel M 'Clung being in New Orleans, and walking up St. Charles Street one day, saw the same fellow actually kicking another man out of the door of a drinking saloon. The kicked ...
9
Garner's Modern American Usage
Language-Change Index clinch misused for clench: Stage 3 cling > clung > clung . So inflected—as it has been since the verb first appeared in Old English more than a thousand years ago. Cling to the strong past forms, despite the pitiable ...
Bryan Garner, 2009
10
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of ...
In this case, the mistake under which Hughes laboured, that the lands in controversy were not embraced by the survey of Moore and M'Clung, a mistake produced by the acts and improper omissions of M'Clung. (viz: the calls of the entries and ...
Peyton Randolph, 1828

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLUNG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term clung is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Chael Sonnen: Conor McGregor's media obligations have 'crossed …
... Sonnen was in the same spot as the Irishman -- navigating the waters of mega-event promotion while Anderson Silva clung to the shadows ... «MMA Fighting, Jul 15»
2
Kim Kardashian Shows Off Her Growing Baby Bump In Tight White …
She opted for a white hot long sleeve dress while at Casa Escobar, which completely clung to her curvaceous figure. Khloe and Kourtney also ... «Hollywood Life, Jul 15»
3
Elsa Pataky cradles 3-year-old India Rose as she carries bags at …
The adorable tot had her hair pulled off of her face in a ponytail as she clung to her mother's shoulder. Meanwhile Elsa, was a multitasking ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Yankees Lose to A's as Dellin Betances Stumbles in 10th
But with the Baltimore Orioles also losing, the Yankees clung to first place for another day. Write to Daniel Barbarisi at Daniel.Barbarisi@wsj. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
5
Kendall Jenner swaps Chanel wedding suit for matching plunging …
The plunging playsuit clung to the model's tiny figure, and she once again had her own hair as she wore it tied up in a high ponytail. With her ... «Irish Mirror, Jul 15»
6
Iron ore miners cannot sustain cost cuts, say fund managers
The sector had enjoyed a few months of slight relief, where iron ore clung to the $US60 mark, but the pressure is again mounting on Australia's ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
7
Undocumented Workers Reportedly Constructing Donald Trump's …
But instead of backing down from his inflammatory statements, Trump has stubbornly clung to his words. "Clearly, NBC and Macy's support ... «VICE News, Jul 15»
8
All Blacks survive giant Apia scare
The battered and bruised All Blacks clung on to record a messy start to their 2015 campaign and suggests there is ample work to be done ... «ninemsn, Jul 15»
9
A year later: Protective Edge, war through the
This was the moment I had mentally prepared for, and while the uncertainty and anxiety still clung to my face, I knew I had to go. I made a ... «Ynetnews, Jul 15»
10
Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic finally sees the light against Anderson
... as Roger Federer had done against Sam Groth and Andy Murray against Ivo Karlovic, he clung on and waited until the hot serving cooled. «Irish Times, Jul 15»

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