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- DictionaryChink/CHiNGk/
verb
- 1. make or cause to make a light, high-pitched ringing sound, as of glasses or coins striking together: "the chain joining the handcuffs chinked"
noun
- 1. a high-pitched ringing sound: "the chink of glasses"
The meaning of CHINK is a small cleft, slit, or fissure. How to use chink in a sentence.
Chink is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent, but also used against people of East Asian, North Asian, Southeast Asian appearance. The use of the term describing eyes with epicanthic fold ("Asiatic eyes") is considered extremely offensive and is regarded as racist by many.
Chink definition: a crack, cleft, or fissure. See examples of CHINK used in a sentence.
a small narrow crack or opening: I peered through a chink in the curtains and saw them all inside. Synonyms. breach (OPENING) formal. cleft. crack (NARROW SPACE) cranny. crevice. fissure. gap (HOLE) interstice formal. opening (HOLE) slit. slot (LONG HOLE) SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Holes, hollows and dips. anti-crack. aperture.
A chink is a very narrow opening or crack. A chink in your bedroom curtains might let enough early morning sunlight in that you'll wake up before your alarm goes off. Use the word chink to describe the slightest gap between slats in a blind or crevice between two rocks on a cliff.
chink. A chink in a surface is a very narrow crack or opening in it. A chink of light is a small patch of light that shines through a small opening in something. When objects chink, or you chink them, they touch each other, making a light ringing sound. ...cutlery chinking in the silence.
1. a small narrow opening, such as a fissure or crack. 2. chink in one's armour a small but fatal weakness. vb. ( tr) chiefly US and Canadian to fill up or make cracks in. [C16: perhaps variant of earlier chine, from Old English cine crack; related to Middle Dutch kene, Danish kin]
CHINK meaning: 1. a small, narrow opening in something 2. a short ringing sound that is made when glass or metal…. Learn more.
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word Chink. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. Chink is considered offensive.
CHINK meaning: 1 : a small crack a narrow opening or space usually + in; 2 : a small amount of light shining through a crack.
