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chink1    Audio Help   [chingk] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a crack, cleft, or fissure: a chink in a wall.
2.a narrow opening: a chink between two buildings.
–verb (used with object)
3.to fill up chinks in.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; perh. chine1 + -k suffix (see -ock)]

—Synonyms 1. breach, rent, cut.
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chink2    Audio Help   [chingk] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1.to make, or cause to make, a short, sharp, ringing sound, as of coins or glasses striking together.
–noun
2.a chinking sound: the chink of ice in a glass.
3.Slang. coin or ready cash.
[Origin: 1565–75; imit.]
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Chink    Audio Help   [chingk] Pronunciation Key
–noun (sometimes lowercase) Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
a Chinese.
[Origin: 1900–05; earlier Chinkie appar. alter. of China, Chinese by assoc. with chink1 (from the stereotypical Western image of Chinese as narrow-eyed); see -ie]
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chink 1    Audio Help   (chĭngk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure.

tr.v.   chinked, chink·ing, chinks
  1. To make narrow openings in.
  2. To fill narrow openings in.


[Probably alteration of obsolete chine, from Middle English, crack, from Old English cine.]

chink'y adj.
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chink 2    Audio Help   (chĭngk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A slight, metallic sound, as of coins rattling in a pocket.

intr. & tr.v.   chinked, chink·ing, chinks
To make or cause to make a slight, metallic sound.


[Imitative.]

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Chink    Audio Help   (chĭngk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for person of Chinese birth or descent.


[Probably alteration of Chinese.]

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chink 
"slit," 1535, from M.E. chine (with parasitic -k) from O.E. cinu "fissure," related to cinan "to crack, split, gape," from PIE base *gei-, *gi- "to germinate, bloom," connection being in the notion of bursting open. The unrelated derogatory slang word for "a Chinaman" first recorded 1901.

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chink

noun
1. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent 
2. a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall 
3. a short light metallic sound 

verb
1. make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle] 
2. fill the chinks of, as with caulking 
3. make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint" [syn: check] 

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chink [tʃiŋk] noun
a narrow opening
Example: a chink in the curtains; There was no chink of light in the room.
Arabic: شِق، صَدْعٌ فس حائِط
Chinese (Simplified): 裂缝
Chinese (Traditional): 裂縫
Czech: štěrbina, skulina
Danish: revne; lysstribe
Dutch: spleet
Estonian: pragu
Finnish: rako
French: fente
German: der Spalt
Greek: χαραμάδα
Hungarian: rés
Icelandic: rifa, glufa
Indonesian: celah
Italian: fessura
Japanese: すき間
Korean: 좁은 틈새
Latvian: sprauga; gaismas strēle
Lithuanian: plyšys
Norwegian: sprekk
Polish: szczelina
Portuguese (Brazil): fresta, lasca
Portuguese (Portugal): fresta
Romanian: crăpătură
Russian: щель; щёлочка
Slovak: štrbina, škára
Slovenian: špranja
Spanish: resquicio, grieta
Swedish: springa, glipa
Turkish: çatlak, yarık
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Chink

Chine\, n. [Cf. Chink.] A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." --J. Ingelow.
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Chink

Chink\, n. [OE. chine, AS. c[=i]ne fissure, chink, fr. c[=i]nan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit.] A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. --Macaulay.
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Chink

Chink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking.] To crack; to open.
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Chink

Chink\, v. t. 1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
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Chink

Chink\, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle.]

1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." --Cowper.

2. Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." --Somerville.
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