Clink vs. Chink — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Clink and Chink
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Clink
To make or cause to make a light, sharp ringing sound
Clinked their wineglasses together in a toast.
Chink
Chink is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent. The word is also sometimes indiscriminately used against people of East Asian appearance in general.
Clink
A light, sharp ringing sound, as of glass or metal.
Chink
A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure.
Clink
A prison or a prison cell; a jail
Spent the night in the clink.
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Chink
A slight, metallic sound, as of coins rattling in a pocket.
Clink
(onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
Chink
Used as a disparaging term for a person of Chinese birth or descent.
Clink
(slang) A prison.
If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.
Chink
To make narrow openings in.
Clink
Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
Chink
To fill narrow openings in.
Clink
(ambitransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
Chink
To make or cause to make a slight, metallic sound.
Clink
To rhyme.
Chink
A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
Clink
To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
And let me the canakin clink.
Chink
A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
I noticed a chink of light under the door.
Clink
To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
Chink
A chip or dent in something metallic.
The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.
Clink
To rhyme. [Humorous].
Chink
(figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
The chink in the theory is that the invaders have superior muskets.
Clink
A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
Chink
(countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
Clink
A prison cell; a lockup; - probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England.
Chink
Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
Clink
A short light metallic sound
Chink
(transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
To chink a wall
Clink
A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
Chink
(intransitive) To crack; to open.
Clink
Make a high sound typical of glass;
Champagne glasses clinked to make a toast
Chink
(transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Clink
Make or emit a high sound;
Tinkling bells
Chink
(intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
The coins were chinking in his pocket.
Chink
(transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Chink
A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.
Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.Shines out the dewy morning star.
Chink
A chinaman; a chinese person; - disparaging and offensive.
Chink
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
Chink
Money; cash.
Chink
To crack; to open.
Chink
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Chink
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chink
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Chink
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
Chink
Offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent
Chink
A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
Chink
A short light metallic sound
Chink
Make or emit a high sound;
Tinkling bells
Chink
Fill the chinks of, as with caulking
Chink
Make cracks or chinks in;
The heat checked the paint
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