(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.
Rime
Definition:
(n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
(n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
(v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
(n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
(n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.
(v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
(2) Both TRS and RIME sense transcripts are preferentially synthesized compared to anti-sense transcripts, and are much more abundant in bloodstream forms than in cultured procyclics.
(3) In Experiment 1, partial identity priming using word-final trigrams was observed only when the bigram corresponded to the orthographic rime unit.
(4) Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants).
(5) Words which rhyme share a common rime and thus can be categorized on that speech unit.
(6) The results were discussed in relation to theories suggesting that syllables consist of an onset and a rime.
(7) "The sectarian element was introduced into the revolution in March 2011 by the Assad regime itself, which wants to identify it with sectarian strife," says Syrian writer and analyst Rime Allaf .
(8) Who wants to see the soil stripped from the land, the sea rimed with rubbish?
(9) Monosyllabic words were blended and learned as easily with onset-rime segmentation as with whole word units, for all children.
(10) By then, the Syrian revolutionaries had lost their innocence and the Syrian regime had lost its reticence,” wrote Rime Allaf, a pro-uprising Syrian commentator.
(11) Although there were singles that joined Ultravox's Vienna in the "unfairly denied the top slot" corner – Daft Punk's One More Time (kept off by Leann Rimes's Can't Fight the Moonlight), Pink's Get the Party Started (George Harrison's death pushing My Sweet Lord back to the top) and Kelis's Milkshake (stuck at second base for a whole month thanks to Michelle McManus's All the Time and then LMC's Take Me to the Skies Above) – it was also true that only the genuinely great have hogged the top spot this decade.
(12) Smith's film is a horror comedy starring Michael Parks, featuring the actor, in Smith's words, reciting "some Lewis Carroll and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to some poor motherfucker sewn into a realistic walrus costume".
(13) "It is a ridiculous and dangerous comment," said Rime Allaf, a Syrian analyst at the Chatham House thinktank in London.
(14) That is, can children learn more words segmented at the onset-rime boundary (e.g., CL-AP, D-ISH) than words segmented after the vowel (CLA-P, DI-SH)?
(15) In addition to the antigen gene, it contains seven putative coding regions (ESAGs, for expression site-associated genes), as well as a RIME retroposon.
(16) Here's why: Heavy metal makes kids read Romantic poetry By taking the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and turning them into songs, Iron Maiden (with Rime of the Ancient Mariner) and Rush (Xanadu, based on Kubla Khan) have done more to draw attention to one of English literature's heroes than any number of Oxbridge academics.
(17) Grade 2 and 3 readers increasingly used larger orthographic correspondences termed rimes (e.g., -ook, -ild).
(18) These results are consistent with the view that syllables are coded in terms of an onset (initial consonant or cluster) and a rime (remainder).
(19) We asked whether this same onset-rime segmentation might also be beneficial in teaching children to read.
(20) In all three experiments, onset-rime segmentation proved more helpful than postvowel segmentation in short-term learning of the words.