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chink1 nounchink2 verb chinkchink1 /tʃɪŋk/ noun chink1Origin: 1,3 1500-1600 Probably from chin ‘crack’ (11-16 centuries), from Old English cine2 1500-1600 From the sound - the chink of knives and forks
- Through a chink in the shutter we could see Ralph.
- Boards let in chinks of dying light from the sky's embers.
- In the wall both houses shared there was a little chink.
- One chink of light had appeared, however: Steve was talking to her.
- Outside, bigger, rougher rocks were piled up to the eaves, with scant little chinks left for doorways and windows.
- She could hear laughter and talking and the chink of glasses.
- The jawless fish, even though their heads were heavily plated with bone, had chinks in their armour to accommodate eyes.
- The ladies' bathhouse is round, with little chinks of windows.
- The painfully neat clothes bear witness that, depressed as she was, she allowed no chink in her armor.
► a chink in somebody’s armour- Perhaps spotting a chink in Clinton's armour, the Republicans have further accused him of stirring up feeling against the war.
- Perhaps there was a chink in the Tuer armour?
- The film-makers used a chink in the technological armour to record the candidates in their unguarded, uncensored private moments.
1[countable] a small hole in a wall, or between two things that join together, that lets light or air through SYN crackchink in The sun came through a chink in the curtains.2[countable] British English a high ringing sound made by metal or glass objects hitting each other SYN clink: the chink of coins3a chink in somebody’s armour a weakness in someone’s character or in something they have said, that you can use to attack themchink1 nounchink2 verb chinkchink2 verb [intransitive, transitive] British English VERB TABLEchink |
Present | I, you, we, they | chink | | he, she, it | chinks | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | chinked | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have chinked | | he, she, it | has chinked | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had chinked | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will chink | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have chinked |
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Present | I | am chinking | | he, she, it | is chinking | | you, we, they | are chinking | Past | I, he, she, it | was chinking | | you, we, they | were chinking | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been chinking | | he, she, it | has been chinking | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been chinking | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be chinking | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been chinking |
- A few pennies chinked in my pocket.
- As they were going up, the Columbia tributaries were also being chinked full of dams.
- He laid upon the table a drawstring purse of soft leather, that chinked faintly as it shifted and settled.
- I send them to you now in a pill-box wrapped close in paper that they mayn't chink.
- The cracks between the logs are chinked by oakum that I have laboriously pounded in.
if glass or metal objects chink, or if you chink them, they make a high ringing sound when they knock together SYN clink: They chinked their glasses and drank a toast to the couple. |