Clink

[klɪŋk]

Definition

(verb.) make a high sound typical of glass; 'champagne glasses clinked to make a toast'.

Editor: Rae--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.

(v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.

(v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].

(n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.

Inputed by Antonia

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Click, clack.

n. Click, clack.

Checker: Sophia

Definition

n. a ringing sound made by the striking together of sounding bodies: jingle.—v.t. to cause to make a ringing sound.—v.i. to ring or jingle: to go with a clinking sound.—n. Clink′er the name given to the scales or globules of black oxide of iron obtained from red-hot iron under the blows of a hammer: the slags of iron furnaces: the cindery-like masses which form the crust of some lava-flows.—adj. Clink′er-built made of planks which overlap each other below (as distinguished from carvel-built) and are fastened together with clinched nails.—n. Clink′stone a greenish-gray or brownish compact or very finely crystalline igneous rock splitting into slabs which give a metallic clink when struck by a hammer.

v.t. to clinch: to rivet.

Edited by Elise

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Typist: Susan

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