to chink

Examples

• All

• You dug and chinked the metal box.

  All the King's Men (2006)

• ''l felt that ice chink against my spine.

  The Singing Detective (2003)

• The coins chink against my paper plate.

  Fiction book (2001)

• "How about this?" The tin-can star chinked against his tags.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Down a hill; hail chinking loudly off the hood.

  Fiction book (2000)

• "So you did," Netty said, and her teacup chinked as she replaced it in the saucer.

  Fiction book (1995)

• So subtle, that enemy, chinking our women's armor with the same destructive tactic that has devastated our marriages and families.

  Blog text (13)

• She wore an armload of silver bracelets, and they crashed and chinked each time she raised her cigarette to her lips.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The coins chink against my paper plate as I count my change.

• Alice holds out her glass and makes the ice cubes chink together with an impatient movement of her hand.

Synonyms

R

to ring

vsto chink

811 1.0

To make a clear sound like a bell that can be heard far away

is thinner and higher pitched, not the broad echoed ringing

J

to jingle

vsto chink

27 2.8

To make a light ringing sound by moving small metal objects

is thinner and usually a single short ring rather than repeated bright rings

C

to clink

vsto chink

18 5.1

To make a short, sharp sound by hitting glass or metal together

is thinner and more high pitched than a short sharp strike

T

to tinkle

vsto chink

14 3.9

To make a light clear ringing sound like a small bell

is thinner and more metallic than bell or glass sounds

D

to ding

vsto chink

13 6.1

To make a short high sound like a small bell, for example on a phone

is thinner and more metallic rather than bell like

T

to tink

vsto chink

9 9.5

To make a short high ringing sound like a small bell

is thinner and less bell like, coming from tiny metal strikes

C

to ching

vsto chink

6 8.8

To make a short sharp ringing sound like metal hitting metal

is thinner and higher pitched rather than sharp and sudden

T

tinkling

vsto chink

4 2.7

Making short, high ringing sounds like small bells

is a single thin ring rather than repeated bell notes

J

to jingle-jangle

vsto chink

4 7.5

A light ringing sound that small metal things make when they touch

is a single thin high note rather than repeated ringing

C

clinking

vsto chink

3 3.4

A light, sharp ringing sound when keys or glasses touch

comes from very small metal objects rather than glass

P

to plink

vsto chink

1 7.3

To make a short high sound by hitting small hard things

is thinner and more fragile sounding than an instrument note

T

to ting

vsto chink

1 8.3

To make a light, clear ringing sound like a small bell or glass

is thinner and higher pitched rather than a general metallic ring

D

to dingling

vsto chink

1 6.1

To make a light ringing sound like a small bell

is a single thin ring rather than ongoing bell like repeats

Antonyms

M

to muffle

19 5.8

To make a sound or feeling quieter so it is less noticeable

Idioms

C

chink in the armor

• Informal

3 7.4

A small weakness in a person, group, or system that others can use

C

chink in someone's argument

• Informal

7.4

A small weakness in someone's reasons that other people can use

How Loud

to crash

46 2.4

to clang

27 3.5

chime

29 1.7

to chink

1 7.7

to tinkle

14 3.9

Surface Forms

Etymology