What's the difference between dink and rink?

Dink


Definition:

  • (a.) Trim; neat.
  • (v. t.) To deck; -- often with out or up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
  • (2) Just recently a complaint has been filed against two intellectuals – Robert Koptas, the editor of the Armenian newspaper Agos, whose previous editor Hrant Dink was assassinated, and Ümit Kivanç, leftist-liberal journalist – because one citizen complained that the words they uttered on TV were "insulting", adding "clearly they must be Armenians".
  • (3) When the French government proposed applying a similar law to the Armenian genocide as it does to the Shoah, Dink said he would fly to Paris in order to break the law, believing, as I do, that strict regulation about what people can and cannot say eventually diminishes us all.
  • (4) In between, Andrea Pirlo had dinked the most extraordinary pitch-wedge of a shot into Hart's goal and that moment really encapsulated the difference in class between the teams.
  • (5) It didn't though and the alert Lungu got to the ball and dinked it back across goal from the right.
  • (6) In 2007, ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who received death threats because of his comments about the killings of Armenians by Turks in 1915, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul.
  • (7) That or he's annoyed because his team-mates aren't getting into decent positions so he can dink the ball their way.
  • (8) Some sharp interplay on the left of the penalty area leads to a dinked ball into the box from Henry towards Hoilett.
  • (9) He plays the ball wide to Gonzalo Higuain, whose attempted dink into the six-yard box is headed clear by Thiago Silva.
  • (10) Fortunately for Moyes, Watmore possessed sufficient drive to unhinge that backline courtesy of a startling change of pace and deftly dinked ball which prefaced Van Aanholt sending a half-volley looping into the net.
  • (11) Dink's murder provoked an angry statement from the Federation of French-Armenians, that "Turkey has killed Hrant Dink".
  • (12) Chelsea went to sleep and allowed Liverpool to take it quickly to Henderson, who dinked a lovely ball into the box, where Sakho looped a header towards goal from 12 yards out.
  • (13) 8.22pm GMT 36 min: Kagawa dinks and dribbles down the right and into the area.
  • (14) 51 min: Claudio Morel dinks a through ball towards the corner-flag for Nelson Valdez to chase.
  • (15) Ronaldo and Simao break quickly and it ends up with Deco dinking a lovely cross from the left that Leidson heads right at the keeper.
  • (16) He dinks into Vargas, who looks to shimmy a yard of space, but Javi Martinez's tackle bobbles a foot or so wide.
  • (17) Creditably, McLeod retained sufficient poise to nonchalantly extend his right foot and dink the ball over the advancing Mannone.
  • (18) Muamba dinked a deft reverse pass to Cattermole, who slipped a dainty ball behind the German defence in anticipation of a surge by Walcott.
  • (19) Ameobi dinks a ball over the top (seriously) and finds Gouffran again, once more with the Liverpool defenders busy running errands or something, but this time Johnson nips across and half-blocks, enough in any case to prevent another goal.
  • (20) 66 min: Jinking down the inside right channel, Arjen Robben skips past two defenders, prods the ball past Pepe and dances around the full-back to try to dink the ball over the onrushing Casillas.

Rink


Definition:

  • (n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
  • (n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Putin rink side and asked him about the firing of former.
  • (2) Regular rink days are Thursday to Sunday, until 10:30pm.
  • (3) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
  • (4) Even one outdoor ice rink in cold-accustomed South Dakota is shutting down.
  • (5) Alexandra Palace Ice Rink , London N22 ( sadlerswells.com ) , 28-31 October.
  • (6) There was still no football at Halifax, but the local club opened its ground as a public ice rink and hundreds skated on it."
  • (7) And yet Sprague remained in awe of her former boss ( despite an acrimonious departure which resulted in her suing the company ), recalling the times his obsessive attention to detail uncovered the misalignment of terraces during the construction of Trump Tower, or drove the renovation of Central Park’s ice rink in 1981.
  • (8) He missed the place: the cold, the skating rinks, the desperate need for mittens in winter.
  • (9) A group of men outside were spraying the street with water from a fire hose in order to create a frozen ice rink that would be too slippery for riot police to attack from.
  • (10) At the other end of the rink, Jonathan Quick can be inhumanly mesmerizing when called upon by the Kings to save the day.
  • (11) UVM is turning its ice rink into Sno Cones Photograph: University of Vermont Hat tip: AKenyon 6.45pm BST Apartment Therapy said that the Museum of Modern Art is launching a pregnancy tracker app that compares the size of your baby to the size of works in its collection.
  • (12) A prospective survey has been made of the injuries to members of the public attending a well established ice rink in a major city.
  • (13) Better rink discipline, instruction classes and safety publicity should be helpful in minimising accidents.
  • (14) His speech began with a ramble through Manhattan geography, followed by a tutorial on ice skating rinks: “You want rubber hose, and you want water, and in the water you want salt so it doesn’t freeze.” Then he described his idea of New York values: policemen and firefighters; transit workers who “keep those trains and buses going and everything else”; families in Central Park, “some together, some not”.
  • (15) The opening of an ice rink resulted in 469 attendances at the local Accident and Emergency department over the first year.
  • (16) The range of injuries sustained at an ice-rink and presented to an Accident Service department is described.
  • (17) A., Berg, C., Hendrick, J. P., LaBranche-Chabot, H., Metspalu, A., Rinke, J., and Yario, T. (1988) J.
  • (18) Three ways of minimizing leakage are as follows: (1) Use a less leaky indicator, such as BCECF (Rink et al., 1982); (2) lower the incubation temperature; (3) continuously remove external indicator by perfusion technique (Boron, 1982).
  • (19) They also suggest, although they do not prove, that the translocation of these cations occurs through an agonist-operated channel as proposed by Hallam and Rink (FEBS Lett.
  • (20) Dustin Brown grabs, lifts and skates the Cup around the rink - he is the first American born captain to win it twice, both with the Kings, who now have two titles in three seasons.

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