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Chink vs Clatter - What's the difference?

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Chink is a related term of clatter.


As nouns the difference between chink and clatter

is that chink is (slang|offensive|ethnic slur) refers to a chinese or a person of chinese ethnicity while clatter is a rattling noise.

As a verb clatter is

to cause to make a rattling sound.

chink

English

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin; but apparently an extension (with formative (m)) of (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • Through one cloudless chink , in a black, stormy sky, / Shines out the dewy morning star.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 30 , author=Kevin Darlng , title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The first chink in Arsenal's relaxed afternoon occurred when key midfielder Samir Nasri pulled up with a hamstring injury and was replaced. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
    • to chink a wall
  • To crack; to open.
  • To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

    • Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 leave his chink to better hands

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
    • The coins were chinking in his pocket.
  • To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
    • (Alexander Pope)

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • clatter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rattling noise.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title= The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
  • A loud disturbance.
  • Noisy talk or chatter.

    • Synonyms

    * commotion * racket

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to make a rattling sound.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • You clatter still your brazen kettle.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=21 November , author=Michael Cragg , title=New music: Foxes - Home , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Do we really need another doe-eyed female singer-songwriter with a penchant for electro-pop? Twenty-two-year-old Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, certainly thinks so. Available as a free download via Neon Gold, her debut single Youth is a monster mix of keening vocals, slow-burn electronics and, by the song's end, big clattering drums. }}
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...
  • To make a rattling noise.
  • To chatter noisily or rapidly.
  • * Spenser
    • I see thou dost but clatter .
  • (Northern English) To hit; to smack.
  • * 1988 , , Friday Night Live
    • "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”
  • * 2010 , Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till
    • “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.

    Derived terms

    * clatterer * clatteringly * clattery