(n.) 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.
(n.) The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
(n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
(n.) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
(v. t.) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
(v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
Example Sentences:
(1) Perry demonstrates how to chine a rib roast – that is, how to separate the section of spine running along its length, while leaving it partially attached for cooking.
(2) Possible relationships between linguistic features and disease concepts are cited for the Eskimo, the Navaho, and the Chines, and it is suggested that, in European languages, the extensive use of spatial metaphors to express abstract concepts may encourage a more rigid categorization of disease and inhibit the ability to conceive of multiple factors in disease causation.
(3) The quantity singlet oxygen chemiluminescence was decreased in the presence of Japanese Catalin and Chine Baineiting, antirheumatic Voltaren and less strong Finish Catachrome and Carnosine.
(4) • £1.50, children only Blackgang Chine , Isle of Wight Photograph: Alamy This is a surreal, slightly careworn adventure park with resident cowboys, pixies, pirates and a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a smoking jacket.
(5) The farmer gave me a running commentary on all the bits and pieces, especially those which crop up in the poem, such as the knot, the chine and the slot.
(6) MOST UNCROWDED Canford Cliffs Chine, Poole, Dorset A well-kept secret between Branksome Chine and Flaghead Chine, this fine, blue-flag beach is where the locals go to avoid the crush of tourists in summer.
(7) Les panneaux ont été fabriqués en Chine, alors que les onduleurs et transformateurs sont importés d’Allemagne.
Chinse
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The approach to Taiwan built on earlier comments by the Chinses president, Hu Jintao, and omitted last year's warning that China would never allow anyone to separate Taiwan from "the motherland".
(2) Basal and pentagastrin-stimulated peak acid outputs were also determined in the Chinses patients with duodenal or gastric ulceration.