What's the difference between china and chink?

China


Definition:

  • (n.) A country in Eastern Asia.
  • (n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (2) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
  • (3) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (4) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
  • (5) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
  • (6) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (7) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
  • (8) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
  • (9) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
  • (10) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
  • (11) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
  • (12) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
  • (13) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
  • (14) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
  • (15) China's relations with the NTC were strained last week when it emerged Chinese arms firms had talked to Muammar Gaddafi's representatives about weapons sales .
  • (16) Japan's 2% growth this year would be boosted by a construction boom after the tsunami in 2011 , while China would expand by 8.2% in 2012 and 9.3% in 2013.
  • (17) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
  • (18) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
  • (19) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
  • (20) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.

Chink


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
  • (2) But Real are not giving them a chink to exploit so, eventually, Neymar lobs a ball into the box.
  • (3) It is demonstrated that Fe(3+)- and Fe(2+)-ions are adsorbed in the gap [correction of chink], while Ag(+)-ions are adsorbed in the gap [correction of chink] and axon in the bulbs of the node.
  • (4) It waits, looking out for an opening, for some small chink in the defences she has built up so very carefully.
  • (5) I only saw one chink in Rowland’s impassive armour: his customary nod to the judge, as Mitting left, accompanied by a movement of the lips that looked very like “thank you”.
  • (6) These comments must not go unchallenged and have to be investigated by the FA.” Whelan’s apology had attempted to clarify his feelings on Jewish people, but he appeared to remain unsure if “chink” was an offensive term.
  • (7) A Chinese community leader, Jenny Wong, also said Whelan was condoning racism by saying it is “nothing” to call a Chinese person a “chink”.
  • (8) They included derogatory messages about Smith as a Jew, the South Korean international Kim Bo-kyung, reportedly four other offensive texts, and a reference to Vincent Tan, Cardiff City’s Malaysian owner, as “the Chink”.
  • (9) I was one of the lucky ones – but these days, the chink has been obscured for children in a cloud of cuts; student grants are no more; and those at university are waving at my students from a foreign land.
  • (10) And how these narratives resonate with the public may once again reveal chinks in our financial armour.
  • (11) Their task toughened once Sebastian Larsson, cleverly exploiting a chink of space, lifted a gloriously chipped pass into Borini's path and the Liverpool loanee responded by volleying past Foster.
  • (12) The first chink of light has been spotted between the top three and the chasing pack, a three-point gap chiselled out between Mourinho's team and fourth-placed Everton to suggest a massed scramble towards the summit is thinning out.
  • (13) A chink, the merest pinprick of light, has opened up in the grubby soap opera of Sepp Blatter, Fifa and the future of football.
  • (14) The procedure has been undertaken in nine cases to date where the degree of posterior glottic chink, usually because of a concomitant superior nerve paralysis, was felt to be too great to be adequately managed by Teflon injection.
  • (15) However, he said the word chink is not offensive, and that he used to say it of Chinese people when he was young.
  • (16) For man has closed himself up, till he sees things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
  • (17) He said: “If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying.
  • (18) They provided their opponents with barely a chink of light until Piqué turned past Iván Córdoba and Júlio César to put the ball into the net, heralding a convulsive last few minutes.
  • (19) If somebody says to a Chinaman: ‘You’re a chink,’ would he be upset about it?
  • (20) The use of Tissucol has particularly been successful in: 1) bilateral cordectomy as, besides avoiding the temporary application of a silactic sheet to matain an open glottic chink, it also prevented webbing.