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Kink vs Glitch - What's the difference?

kink | glitch |

As verbs the difference between kink and glitch

is that kink is to laugh loudly or kink can be to form a kink or twist while glitch is to experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction.

As nouns the difference between kink and glitch

is that kink is a convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying or kink can be a tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc while glitch is a problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk.

kink

English

(wikipedia kink)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) kinken, kynken, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To laugh loudly.
  • To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) or (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
    • We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
  • A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
    • They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks .
  • An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
  • * Frederic Swartwout Cozzens
    • Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
  • (slang, countable, and, uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
  • * 2013 , Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore (page 13)
    • To top it all off, Lynn is into kink . Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.
  • (Scotland, dialect) A fit of coughing or laughter.
  • (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form a kink or twist.
  • To be formed into a kink or twist.

    • Derived terms

    * kinked * kinky * kinkle * kinkster ----

    glitch

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia glitch) (es)
  • A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk
    • They are still trying to work out all the glitches .
  • (video games) A bug or an exploit.
    • Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.
  • (music) A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.

    • Derived terms

    * glitchcore

    Quotations

    * 1962 , (John Glenn) *: Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical current. * 1965 , Time magazine *: Glitches —a spaceman’s word for irritating disturbances.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction
    • My computer keeps glitching ; every couple of hours it just reboots without warning.
  • (video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.
    • His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.

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