Kink

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, as one caused by the tensing of a looped section of wire.
  • n. A painful muscle spasm, as in the neck or back; a crick.
  • n. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
  • n. A mental peculiarity; a quirk.
  • n. An unusual or eccentric idea.
  • n. Slang Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behavior or taste.
  • v. To form or cause to form a kink or kinks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To laugh loudly.
  • v. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
  • n. A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
  • n. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
  • n. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
  • n. Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
  • n. A fit of coughing or laughter.
  • n. A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sineā€“Gordon equation
  • v. To form a kink.
  • v. To be formed into a kink.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
  • n. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
  • verb-intransitive. To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.
  • n. A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A knot-like contraction or curl in a thread, cord, or rope, or in a hair, wire, or chain, resulting from its being twisted or doubled upon itself, or from the nature of the material. Also kinkle.
  • n. An unreasonable and obstinate notion; a crotchet; a whim.
  • To form kinks; twist or contract into knots.
  • To become entangled: said of a line.
  • To laugh loudly.
  • To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing: especially applied to the noisy inspiration of breath in whooping-cough.
  • n. A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of the breath; the whoop in whooping-cough; a gasping for breath caused by coughing, laughing, or crying.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. form a curl, curve, or kink
  • n. a person with unusual sexual tastes
  • n. a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
  • n. a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
  • n. a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
  • n. an eccentric idea
  • v. curl tightly
  • Verb Form
    kinked    kinking    kinks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change surface    person    mortal    individual    someone    soul    somebody    difficulty    muscle spasm    cramp   
    Form
    kinked    kinking    kinkle    kinkster    kinky   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    crotchet    whim    caprice    twist    curl    loop    knot   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    reddish-white    grained    deep-brown    crimp    4-connected