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Meaning of 'chink' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Chink [ n.]
- A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
- A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
- Money; cash.
2 . Chink [ v. i.]
- To crack; to open.
- To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
3 . Chink [ v. t.]
- To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
- To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

Meaning of 'chink' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . chink [ v]
Meaning (1):
- make cracks or chinks in
Example in sentence:
  • The heat checked the paint
Meaning (2):
- make or emit a high sound
Example in sentence:
  • tinkling bells

Nearby Words:

chian chiaro-oscuro chiaroscurist chiaroscuro chiasm chiasma chiasmus chiastolite chibbal chibouk

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