(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.
Chinky
Definition:
(a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Example Sentences:
(1) I might have said a few things after other forms of medication that I shouldn’t have done, but then again we all have, haven’t we?” Smith stood down as candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock – regarded as one of Ukip’s most winnable target constituencies – this month after the release of a recording of a phone call in which he mocked gay party members as “poofters”, joked about shooting people from Chigwell in a “peasant hunt” and referred to someone as a “Chinky bird”.
(2) The newspaper said he joked about “shooting peasants”, referred to a woman with a Chinese name as a “chinky”, made claims he later retracted about the party leader, Nigel Farage, and called Steven Woolfe, Ukip’s immigration spokesman, a “fucking carpetbagger” and an “arsehole”.
(3) In recordings of phone calls obtained by the Mail on Sunday , the would-be MP was said to have mocked gay party members as “poofters”, joked about shooting people from Chigwell in a “peasant hunt” and referred to someone as a “Chinky bird”.
(4) A Ukip candidate has resigned for describing gay people as “fucking disgusting old poofters” and referring to a woman with a Chinese name as a “chinky”, just hours after Ukip defended him saying he had been on sedatives at the time.
(5) Kerry Smith was axed as a parliamentary candidate after he mocked gay members of the party as “poofters”, joked about shooting people from Chigwell in a “peasant hunt” and referred to a woman as a “Chinky bird”.
(6) On Friday, Farage defended a former party candidate who stood down after being recorded referring to “poofters” and calling a woman with a Chinese name a “Chinky bird”.
(7) A Ukip councillor was suspended last year for sharing offensive material on Facebook about Muslims, and only recently Kerry Smith stood down as a Ukip candidate in South Basildon and East Thurrock after being recorded mocking gay party members as “poofters” and referring to someone as a “Chinky bird”.
(8) I don’t think that in the comments he used he meant malice, that’s the only point I’m making.” Challenged over Smith’s use of the word “Chinky” to describe a Chinese person, Farage asked: “If you and your mates are going out for a Chinese, what would you say you were going for?” Asked if he would himself say he was “going for a Chinky”, Farage replied: “No, but a lot of people would.
(9) I remember at school in the 70s a skinhead kicking me, calling me ‘chinky, chinky,’” Wong said.
(10) The newspaper said he also joked about “shooting peasants”, referred to a woman with a Chinese name as a “Chinky”, made claims he later retracted about the party leader, Nigel Farage, and called Steven Woolfe, Ukip’s immigration spokesman, a “fucking carpetbagger” and an “arsehole”.
(11) Challenged over Smith’s use of the word “chinky” to describe a Chinese person, Farage asked: “If you and your mates are going out for a Chinese, what would you say you were going for?” However, Ukip’s national executive council has now passed strict new rules policing members’ social media activity and threatening immediate suspension for those who “embarrass” the party.
(12) Though officially opposed to racism, its candidates variously declared that Lenny Henry should “go and live in a black country” , that Ed Miliband was “not British” , and that a woman with a Chinese name was “a chinky bird” .
(13) The Ukip candidate who resigned after he was taped referring to “fucking disgusting poofters” and a “Chinky” has warned other parliamentary hopefuls to beware of dark arts within the party.
(14) Smith was recorded describing gay people as “fucking disgusting old poofters” and a woman with a Chinese name as “chinky”.