About The Word Chink
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What's The Definition Of Chink?
[n] a short light metallic sound
[n] a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall [n] offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent [v] make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint" [v] fill the chinks of, as with caulking [v] make or emit a high tinkling sound Synonyms | Synonyms for Chink: check | Chinaman | click | clink | clink | tink | tinkle Related Terms | Find terms related to Chink: abysm | abyss | aperture | arroyo | assailability | bar | bezel | bind | block | block up | blockade | box canyon | breach | break | broach | bump | bung | canyon | cash | caulk | cavity | chamfer | change ringing | chap | chase | chasm | check | chime | chiming | chimney | choke | choke off | choke up | clang | clanging | clangor | clank | clanking | cleave | cleft | cleuch | click | clink | clog | clog up | clop | clough | clump | clunk | coin | col | congest | constipate | cork | corrugation | coulee | couloir | cover | crack | cranny | crevasse | crevice | crump | currency | cut | cut open | cwm | dado | dam | dam up | defile | dell | dike | ding | ding-a-ling | dingdong | dinging | dingle | dispart | ditch | divaricate | divide | dong | donga | donging | dough | draw | dull thud | engraving | excavation | fault | fill | fill up | filthy lucre | fissure | flaw | flick | flume | flump | flute | fluting | fly open | foul | fracture | furrow | gap | gape | gash | gong | gorge | gouge | groove | gulch | gulf | gully | heel of Achilles | hole | incise | incision | interruption | jam | jangle | jingle | jinglejangle | jingle-jangle | jingling | joint | kloof | knell | knelling | lay open | leak | legal tender | lettuce | loot | microgroove | moat | notch | nullah | obstipate | obstruct | ope | open | open up | opening | pack | pad | part | pass | passage | pat | patter | peal | peal ringing | pealing | penetrability | pitapat | pitter-patter | plug | plug up | plump | plunk | pop | pregnability | rabbet | rap | ravine | rent | rifling | rift | rime | ring | ring changes | ringing | rip | rive | ruck | rupture | rut | scissure | score | scratch | seam | separate | slit | slot | soft spot | sound | sound a knell | spile | split | spread | spread out | spring open | stanch | stay | stench | stop | stop up | stopper | stopple | streak | stria | striation | stuff | stuff up | sulcation | sulcus | swing open | tap | tear | tear open | throw open | thud | thump | tick | ting | ting-a-ling | tingle | tingling | tink | tinkle | tinkling | tinnitus | tintinnabulate | toll | tolling | trench | tunk | valley | vincibility | void | vulnerability | vulnerable point | wadi | wampum | weak link | weak point | weakness | well-worn groove | wrinkle See Also | Chinese | cleft | crack | crevice | fissure | go | plug | scissure | secure | sound | sound | stop up Chink In Webster's Dictionary \Chink\, n. [OE. chine, AS. c[=i]ne fissure, chink, fr.
c[=i]nan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen.
Cf. {Chit}.]
A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than
breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star. --Macaulay.
\Chink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chinking}.] To crack; to open. \Chink\, v. t. 1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures. 2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall. \Chink\, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. {Jingle}.] 1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. ``Chink of bell.'' --Cowper. 2. Money; cash. [Cant] ``To leave his chink to better hands.'' --Somerville. \Chink\, 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. --Pope. \Chink\, v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. --Arbuthnot. |
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