Chink

[tʃɪŋk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a short light metallic sound.

(noun.) a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall.

(noun.) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent.

(verb.) fill the chinks of, as with caulking.

格雷西校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

(v. i.) To crack; to open.

(v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

(v. t.) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

(n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

(n.) Money; cash.

(v. t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

(v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

亚伯整理

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Opening, gap, crack, cranny, crevice, cleft, rift, fissure, narrow aperture.[2]. [Colloquial.] Money, coin.

v. a. & n. Jingle.

手打:莎伦

解釋/意思:

n. a cleft a narrow opening.—v.i. to crack.—v.t. to fill up cracks.—adj. Chink′y full of chinks.

n. a gasp for breath.—v.i. to gasp—the northern form Kink.

n. the clink as of coins.—v.i. to give forth a sharp sound.

校對:梅勒妮