CHINK
\t͡ʃˈɪŋk], \tʃˈɪŋk], \tʃ_ˈɪ_ŋ_k]\
Definitions of CHINK
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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make or emit a high tinkling sound
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a short light metallic sound
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make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint"
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fill the chinks of, as with caulking
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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a short light metallic sound
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make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint"
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fill the chinks of, as with caulking
By Princeton University
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A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
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To crack; to open.
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To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
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To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
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A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
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Money; cash.
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To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
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To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
By Oddity Software
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A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
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To crack; to open.
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To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
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To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
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A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
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Money; cash.
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To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
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To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
By Noah Webster.
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A small lengthwise crack or opening; a sharp metallic or jingling sound.
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To make, or to cause to make, a sharp metallic sound; jingle.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A narrow aperture; a cleft or rent.
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The clink, as of a coin.
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To form into or close up a chink.
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To cause to single, as money.
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To clink.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A small rent, cleft, or opening lengthwise; a crack or gap, as in a wall.
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To crack; to make a small sharp sound with a piece of money or metal.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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