Clang vs Chink - What's the difference?
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A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
Quality of tone.
The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
(psychology, psychiatry) A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.
* Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.
* Prior
To give out a clang; to resound.
* 1933 , Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death
* 1920 , Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
* 1917 , Rose Wilder Lane, Henry Ford’s Own Story
A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
*: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.
* Macaulay
A chip or dent (in something metallic).
A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system, idiomatically derived from the phrase "chink in armor".
* 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.
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To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
To crack; to open.
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other.
Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
*1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, pp. 47-8:
*: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
* Somerville
To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Clang is a related term of chink.
As nouns the difference between clang and chink
is that clang is a loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other while chink is (slang|offensive|ethnic slur) refers to a chinese or a person of chinese ethnicity.As a verb clang
is to strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.clang
English
Noun
(en noun)- For much of this day, Mrs Y. wrote in her diary, covering page after page in a rapid scrawl full of paligraphic repetitions, puns, clangs, and violent, perseverative crossings-out
Verb
(en verb)- The fierce Caretes clanged their sounding arms.
- A cell door clanged metallically and Wentworth was flung inside. He tripped, collapsed upon the concrete floor.
Chapter XXIX
- The clanging and groaning of the train came nearer, and it staggered slowly into the station like a prey- laden monster into its lair.
- Then the sparks flew from the anvil while the great hammer clanged on the metal, shaping it, and Henry begged to be allowed to try it
chink
English
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin; but apparently an extension (with formative (m)) of (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Through one cloudless chink , in a black, stormy sky, / Shines out the dewy morning star.
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Verb
(en verb)- to chink a wall
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.Noun
(en noun)- to leave his chink to better hands
Verb
(en verb)- The coins were chinking in his pocket.
- (Alexander Pope)
