What's the difference between clinked and clinker?
Clinked
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Clink
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.
Clinker
Definition:
(n.) A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
(n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
(n.) A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
(n.) A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-five mass% magnesia clinker and 5 mass% dental stone were selected for the main constituents.
(2) While other kids my age went to amusement parks, I'd be sailing on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay in a clinker-built ship, learning just how hard it was to row in synch with 11 other people, returning to shore happy and slightly windburned.
(3) The present paper is an overview of the experimental research into the effects of flue magnesite dust in the magnesite industry in which the raw material (magnesite) is processed into refractory magnesite clinker.
(4) A study was conducted to evaluate the level of bronchial responsiveness among workers recently exposed to vanadium pentoxide during periodical removal of ashes and clinker from the boilers of an oil-fired power station.