What's the difference between dink and tink?

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.

Tink


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle.
  • (n.) A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tinke Place your thumb over the sensor and watch Tinke work its magic.
  • (2) RAC motoring strategist Adrian Tink said: "This is a dark day for motorists.
  • (3) But a group of ordinary parents without wealthy or well-connected backers is bound to struggle with the process unless far more support is built in, says group member Anna Tink.
  • (4) Sure, none of the four mixtapes that Tink has released thus far have quite sold in the same quantities as Destiny's Child and The Writing's On The Wall, but that's four mixtapes, people, and she wrote the lot, even if the extent of her involvement in the production is unclear - in which case, chalk one up to La Knowles, who did get a producer credit at least on the second DC album.
  • (5) The background : Rising Chicago star Trinity Home aka Tink is a triple threat: a songwriter who can sing and rap equally effectively.
  • (6) RAC motoring strategist Adrian Tink said: "Ordinary drivers and businesses are being crippled by the relentless rise in fuel costs.
  • (7) I actually really like the smoking ban!” she exclaims with a tinkly laugh.
  • (8) Tink said: "This is a key issue for Britain's 32 million motorists who are watching their bank accounts drained every time they fill up."
  • (9) For their forthcoming debut album, they worked from a dream list scribbled on an A4 sheet of paper and eventually roped in rising R&B star Kelela , Chicago rapper Tink , Jamaican dancehall artist Timberlee and London grime MCs including Roll Deep's Riko Dan and Ruff Sqwad's Prince Rapid.
  • (10) Tink's palpable sense of hurt is echoed by Draper and Ezekiel.
  • (11) The front bar is perfect for gazing out at the sea, while the red-painted back room is a pleasing jumble of mismatched sofas, tinkly chandeliers and board games, where you'll be tempted to linger with the papers and keep ordering coffee.
  • (12) "Look no further than Kidderminster Harriers," declares Mickey Tink.
  • (13) Tink believes that petrol prices – particularly fuel duty which makes up about half the cost – could now become a major issue in the general election.
  • (14) On the latter you get an effective overview of Tink's schizoid impulses, equal parts cute yearning and cutting dissing.
  • (15) The RAC motoring strategist Adrian Tink said the chancellor's decision would cost British drivers more than £1bn.

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