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Chink

(chĭngk)
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a person of Chinese birth or descent.
[Probably alteration of Chinese.]

chink 1

(chĭngk)
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.

chink 2

(chĭngk)
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

(tʃɪŋk)
n
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]
ˈchinky adj

chink

(tʃɪŋk)
vb
to make or cause to make a light ringing sound, as by the striking of glasses or coins
n
such a sound
[C16: of imitative origin]

Chink

(tʃɪŋk) or

Chinky

nadj, pl Chinks or Chinkies
(Peoples) an old-fashioned and highly derogatory term for Chinese
[C20: probably from Chinese, influenced by chink1 (referring to the characteristic shape of the Chinese eye)]
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chink1

(tʃɪŋk)

n.
1. a crack, cleft, or fissure: a chink in a wall.
2. a narrow opening: a chink between two buildings.
v.t.
3. to fill up chinks in.
[1350–1400; Middle English; perhaps chine in same sense (Old English cinu, c. Old Saxon kena) + -k suffix (see -ock)]

chink2

(tʃɪŋk)

v.i.
1. to make or cause to make a short, sharp, ringing sound, as of coins or glasses striking together.
n.
2. a chinking sound.
[1565–75; imitative]

Chink

(tʃɪŋk)

n.
usage: This term is a slur and should be avoided. It is used with disparaging intent and is perceived as highly insulting.
—n.
(sometimes l.c.) Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. (a contemptuous term used to refer to a Chinese.)
[1890–95; appar. alter. of Chinese]
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chink


Past participle: chinked
Gerund: chinking

Imperative
chink
chink
Present
I chink
you chink
he/she/it chinks
we chink
you chink
they chink
Preterite
I chinked
you chinked
he/she/it chinked
we chinked
you chinked
they chinked
Present Continuous
I am chinking
you are chinking
he/she/it is chinking
we are chinking
you are chinking
they are chinking
Present Perfect
I have chinked
you have chinked
he/she/it has chinked
we have chinked
you have chinked
they have chinked
Past Continuous
I was chinking
you were chinking
he/she/it was chinking
we were chinking
you were chinking
they were chinking
Past Perfect
I had chinked
you had chinked
he/she/it had chinked
we had chinked
you had chinked
they had chinked
Future
I will chink
you will chink
he/she/it will chink
we will chink
you will chink
they will chink
Future Perfect
I will have chinked
you will have chinked
he/she/it will have chinked
we will have chinked
you will have chinked
they will have chinked
Future Continuous
I will be chinking
you will be chinking
he/she/it will be chinking
we will be chinking
you will be chinking
they will be chinking
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been chinking
you have been chinking
he/she/it has been chinking
we have been chinking
you have been chinking
they have been chinking
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been chinking
you will have been chinking
he/she/it will have been chinking
we will have been chinking
you will have been chinking
they will have been chinking
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been chinking
you had been chinking
he/she/it had been chinking
we had been chinking
you had been chinking
they had been chinking
Conditional
I would chink
you would chink
he/she/it would chink
we would chink
you would chink
they would chink
Past Conditional
I would have chinked
you would have chinked
he/she/it would have chinked
we would have chinked
you would have chinked
they would have chinked
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. chink - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something
ethnic slur - a slur on someone's race or language
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
Chinese - a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
2. chink - a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
crack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure - a long narrow opening
3. [画像:chink - a short light metallic sound]chink - a short light metallic sound
sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them"
Verb 1. chink - make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells"
sound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"
2. chink - fill the chinks of, as with caulking
plug, stop up, secure - fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"
3. chink - make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint"
crack, check, break - become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"
crack - cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
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chink

noun opening, crack, gap, rift, aperture, cleft, crevice, fissure, cranny He peered through a chink in the curtains.
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chink

noun
A usually narrow partial opening caused by splitting and rupture:
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Translations
شِق، صَدْعٌ فس حائِط
skulinaštěrbina
lysstriberevne
chinetoquefente
rifa, glufa
gaismas strēlesprauga

Chink

[tʃɪŋk] N (offensive) → chino/a m/f

chink

1 [tʃɪŋk] N (= slit) (in wall) → grieta f, hendidura f; (in door) → resquicio m
a chink of light → un hilo de luz
it's the chink in his armour → es su punto débil or su talón de Aquiles

chink

2 [tʃɪŋk]
A. N (= sound) → sonido m metálico, tintineo m
B. VT [+ metal] → hacer sonar ; [+ glass] → hacer tintinear
C. VI [metal] → sonar ; [glass] → tintinear
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chink

[ˈtʃɪŋk] n
(= gap) → fente f, fissure f
to have a chink in one's armour (= Achilles heel) → avoir un défaut dans sa cuirasse
(= noise) → tintement m
[light] → rayon m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Chink

n (pej) → Schlitzauge nt, → Chinese m, → Chinesin f

chink

1
n → Riss m, → Ritze f; (in door) → Spalt m; a chink of light → ein dünner Lichtstreifen or -strahl; the chink in somebody’s armour (fig) → jds schwacher Punkt
vt (US) → stopfen

chink

2
n (= sound) → Klirren nt; (of coins) → Klimpern nt
vt → klirren mit; coins → klimpern mit
vi → klirren ; (coins) → klimpern
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chink

1 [tʃɪŋk] n (opening) → fessura
a chink in his armour (fig) → il suo punto debole

chink

2 [tʃɪŋk]
1. n (noise) → tintinnio
2. vt → far tintinnare
3. vi → tintinnare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

chink

(tʃiŋk) noun
a narrow opening. a chink in the curtains; There was no chink of light in the room. kiertjie شِق، صَدْعٌ فس حائِط цепнатина fresta štěrbina, skulina der Spalt revne; lysstribe χαραμάδα resquicio, grieta pragu درز؛ روزنه rako fente סדק झरी pukotina, zveket rés celah rifa, glufa fessura すき間 좁은 틈새 plyšys sprauga; gaismas strēle sela spleet sprekk szczelina كوچۍ: چاوده يا چاك، درزه fresta crăpătură щель; щелочка štrbina, škára špranja pukotina springa, glipa รอยแยกเล็กๆ çatlak, yarık 裂縫 щілина, тріщина درز ،روزن khe hở 裂缝
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"Don't see why a white man can't do what a Chink can," protested Billy.
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"He'd be a bit surly sometimes, but when we hadn't had a bite since morning, and we hadn't even got the price of a lie down at the Chink's, he'd be as lively as a cricket."
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"What name along that fella Chink?" he demanded of Kwaque.
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One day a Snake came out of a chink in the wall and was about to eat them.
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"Now you Eastern galoots won't believe anything against the yellow devils," he suddenly flamed out with an appearance of earnestness not altogether convincing, "but I tell you that Chink was the perversest scoundrel outside San Francisco.
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I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little water when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, passing before my hovel.
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But there are chinks, or there may be chinks, in the best adjusted masonry; there was a chink in my cavernous cell; for, eventually, I saw, or seemed to see, a ray--pallid, indeed, and cold, and doubtful, but still a ray, for it showed that narrow path which conscience had promised after two, three hours' torturing research in brain and memory, I disinterred certain remains of circumstances, and conceived a hope that by putting them together an expedient might be framed, and a resource discovered.
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Beauly's door!' Upon that he closes his own door, leaving the tiniest little chink to look through; puts out his light; and waits and watches at his tiny little chink, like a cat at a mouse-hole.
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There was still a chink of light above the sill, a warm, mild glow behind the window; the roof of the cottage and some of the banks and hazels were defined in denser darkness against the sky; but all else was formless, breathless, and noiseless like the pit.
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The rattle of the harness was the chink of money, and more drafts were honoured in five minutes than even Tellson's, with all its foreign and home connection, ever paid in thrice the time.
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It was called Mill Pond Bank, Chinks's Basin; and I had no other guide to Chinks's Basin than the Old Green Copper Rope-Walk.
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In another moment the locksmith was standing in the street, whence he could see that the light once more travelled upstairs, and soon returning to the room below, shone brightly through the chinks of the shutters.
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