(v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
(v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
(v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].
(n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the clock struck and glasses clinked, we toasted the new.
(2) His bedside drawer probably opens with the clink that characterises so many similar drawers belonging to gay men, as bottles of poppers nestle among the lube, condoms and a half-read Alan Hollinghurst novel.
(3) It is said that Bach’s lily-livered reluctance to push for a ban stems not only from his own close relationship with Vladimir Putin – those pictures of them clinking champagne glasses like newlyweds or whooping it up with other authoritarian leaders at opening ceremonies in Sochi and Baku threaten to define him – but from his own experiences as an athlete.
(4) London isn’t the best city for hostels ( that accolade goes to Lisbon ) but that’s improving too with Clink , Generator , Wombats and the good ol’ YHA all offering family rooms.
(5) How the way their teeth clink on a mug as they drink their tea can make you hate everything about them, even though they are the very same person you once found so bewitching?
(6) While the two candidates jousted on television, cutlery clinked.
(7) They were boisterous and loving, hugging each other, teasing each other, shouting old stories to roars of laughter, and clinking glasses.
(8) It's an area in which we're expert, having spent a record 74 different stints in the clink, but we never thought our expertise would be brought to bear in pre-match discussion of a semi-final.
(9) "All those fully loaded magazines do not clink, do not move, do not give him away," Henricks said.
(10) He and his colleagues clinked beers, manifestly happy.
(11) From time to time, Syrova's words were punctuated by tinny clinks from the women's handcuffs as they crossed and uncrossed their arms.
(12) Sanders went out of his way to establish his progressive bona fides on issue after issue as a cheering contingent of supporters yelled, hollered and clinked silverware on glasses to indicate their support for his campaign.
(13) Walking through a town centre on a Sunday afternoon or a Monday evening, you would see the coloured chalkboards outside pubs advertising live football and hear the mingled sounds of cheers, clinking glasses and commentary wafting through the air.
(14) While upsetting traditionalists, one-day international cricket now makes the coins clink, attracting large crowds.
(15) The hardest thing for me now is the language,” Dorcas says, shaking her head so her beaded braids clink together.
(16) On Tuesday he turned 91, on Wednesday he broke his personal best in the 400m hurdles, and on Thursday in Copenhagen, he'll be clinking champagne flutes with the secretary general of Nato and the queen of Spain, as they celebrate 60 glorious years of Bilderberg .
(17) Friday's breakthrough was met by a cheer at the company headquarters, but not the clinking of glasses.
(18) But they are miserable and their conversation keeps stalling amid the clink of glass and cutlery.
(19) Morrison refused to answer questions regarding the memorandum of understanding during a 5-minute signing ceremony on Friday, after which he clinked champagne glasses with Cambodian officials .
(20) We clink glasses – he’s drinking Coke, me wine.
Ingot
Definition:
(n.) That in which metal is cast; a mold.
(n.) A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples of alloy were cut from each group, and together with a piece from an original ingot, were mounted, polished, etched, and examined under a metallurgical microscope.
(2) The best processing schedule is casting small ingots while avoiding oxidation, followed by swaging, drawing, and homogenization.
(3) What do you take me for?’” Nanni must have been quite pissed off to spend hours carving this in clay, and I can only hope he got his ingot upgrade.
(4) The smoking adjusted odds ratios in relation to length of exposure showed that the risk was significantly higher among the workers exposed for over 10 years compared to those who worked for less than 10 years in the grinding, soldering and brass ingot making operations.
(5) Under near-equilibrium conditions, an alloy ingot containing approximately 64% Ag, 26% Sn, and 10% Au was found by X-ray diffraction to consist of large grains demonstrating the gamma (Ag-Sn) structure.
(6) Following results were obtained: 1) Ingot specimen of these alloys showed cytotoxicity, Silver-tin-zinc alloy, silver-tin-zinc-cadmium alloy and silver-copper alloy containing 10% or less of copper showed intense cytotoxicity initially, with diminishing cytotoxic action with time.
(7) They were not ones to build monuments; instead, they took weighing scales with them and ingot moulds to melt down spare ecclesiastical treasures.
(8) Samples of alloy were cut from each group and, together with a piece from an original ingot, were mounted, polished, etched, and examined under a metallurgical microscope in order to determine the nature and extent of the metallographic changes resulting from fusion and casting of the alloy.
(9) The most continuous results were achieved with a Ni-Cr-alloy whose melting temperature can be recognized since the ingots flow together when this point is reached.
(10) Melted ingots were lathe-comminuted to a particle size distribution of 1-45 microns.
(11) 2) Cast specimen of these alloys showed increasing cytotoxicity with time campared to their ingot specimen.
(12) Ingots of approximately 1.5 cm in diameter were sectioned to 0.2 cm in thickness and polished through standard metallographic polishing procedures.
(13) For the first series an average weight metal ingot was used and cast at the temperature determined by the sensing head of the casting machine.
(14) Evans said lower value goods had been recovered but many loose precious stones were still missing, as were “gold, platinum and other precious metal bars, ingots and coins”.
(15) It was written in cuneiform script in 1750BC by a bloke called Nanni who is unhappy with some copper ingots he ordered.
(16) He wrote: “You put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said ‘If you want to take them, take them, if you do not want to take them, go away.
(17) For example, Sharps Pixley sells a 1g Degussa gold bar for £40.60, or a 100g ingot for £3,290.
(18) Subsequently, a method was perfected for incorporating nickel or tungsten powder into the Ag3 Sn ingot.
(19) For the second series a larger ingot was used, whilst for the third an elevated casting temperature was employed.
(20) Using these efficiencies, amounts of U in some Al and Fe ingots were determined.