Chink

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure.
  • v. To make narrow openings in.
  • v. To fill narrow openings in.
  • n. A slight, metallic sound, as of coins rattling in a pocket.
  • v. To make or cause to make a slight, metallic sound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
  • n. A chip or dent (in something metallic).
  • n. A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system, idiomatically derived from the phrase "chink in armor".
  • n. coin or ready cash (1565-75)
  • v. To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
  • n. A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other.
  • n. Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
  • v. To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
  • n. Alternative form of Chink.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack.
  • n. a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive.
  • verb-intransitive. To crack; to open.
  • v. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
  • v. To fill up the chinks of.
  • n. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
  • n. Money; cash.
  • v. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A crack; a cleft, rent, or fissure of greater length than breadth; a gap: as, the chinks of a wall.
  • To crack; split; gape.
  • To cause to open or part and form a fissure; make chinks in.
  • To fill up chinks in: as, to chink a wall or a pavement.
  • To put into a chink or chinks: as, to chink in mortar.
  • To make a fine sharp sound, as that produced by the collision of small pieces of metal.
  • To cause to emit a sharp, clear metallic sound, as by shaking coins together.
  • n. A short, sharp, clear metallic sound.
  • n. Coin: so called from its metallic ring.
  • n. The chaffinch, Fringilla Cœlebs.
  • n. The reed-bunting, Emberiza schæniculus.
  • n. A fit, as of coughing or laughing.
  • n. An obsolete form of chinch.
  • n. The variegated pattern shown by oak and other woods when cut across the grain.
  • n. A sprain of the back.
  • n. A Chinaman.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make cracks or chinks in
  • n. a short light metallic sound
  • n. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
  • v. fill the chinks of, as with caulking
  • n. a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
  • v. make or emit a high sound
  • Verb Form
    chinked    chinking    chinks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    crack    sound    Chinese    plug    secure    stop up    scissure    crevice    fissure    cleft   
    Form
    chinked    chinking   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Chinaman    crack    open    money    cash    cleft    jingle    coin    gasp   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Fink    Inc    Inc.    bink    blink    brink    cinque    clink    dink    drink   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clink    clinking    cranny    crevice    tinkle    jingle    glint    cleft    sliver    slit