Chink
[tʃɪŋk]
Definition
(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.
Inputed by Gracie--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typed by Abe
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Opening, gap, crack, cranny, crevice, cleft, rift, fissure, narrow aperture.[2]. [Colloquial.] Money, coin.
v. a. & n. Jingle.
Editor: Sharon
Definition
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.
Checker: Melanie
Examples
- Grant it but a chink or keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She always felt vulnerable, vulnerable, there was always a secret chink in her armour. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink, through which the eye could just penetrate. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Securing one, he returned to the window, and holding the moth to the chink, opened his hand. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He expressed his gratitude to the servants and to Mrs. Horsfall by the chink of his coin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They each looked through a chink in the boards. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And between them and the white-haired man afar off, was the one small link, that they had once looked in at him through the chinks in the wall. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The darkness deepened and deepened, and they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Sometimes I thought the tomb unquiet, and dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden, and living, obtruded through coffin-chinks. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was called Mill Pond Bank, Chinks's Basin; and I had no other guide to Chinks's Basin than the Old Green Copper Rope-walk. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mill Pond Bank, and Chinks's Basin, and the Old Green Copper Rope-walk, all so clear and plain! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He struck his boot upon the ground, so that the guineas chinked within. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Rigaud chinked the money, weighed it in his hand, threw it up a little way and caught it, chinked it again. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He chinked it once, and he blew upon it once, and he spat upon it once,--'for luck,' he hoarsely said--before he put it in his pocket. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not one was left upon them that night, when he put something that chinked into the doctor's greasy palm. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Checker: Melanie