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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
- A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other.
- A chip or dent (in something metallic).
- (colloquial, now rare) Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
- A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
Verbit
- (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
- (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
- (intransitive) To crack; to open.
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Esimerkit
- Yet I did not give way, but settled to wait for the dawn, which must, I knew, be now at hand; for then I thought enough light would come through the chinks of the tomb above to show me how to set to work.
- Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky, / Shines out the dewy morning star.
- The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.
- The chink in the theory is that the invaders have superior muskets.
- The first chink in Arsenal's relaxed afternoon occurred when key midfielder Samir Nasri pulled up with a hamstring injury and was replaced.
- to chink a wall
- I thought that if all the hills about there were pure chink, and all belonged to me, I would give them if I could just talk to her when I wanted to [...]
- to leave his chink to better hands
- The coins were chinking in his pocket.
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