different between chine vs cine

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skina, from Proto-Germanic *skin?. Doublet of shin.

Alternative forms

• chimb, chime

Noun

chine (plural chines)

1. The top of a ridge.
2. The spine of an animal.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     […] the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard […]
3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
4. (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
5. (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
6. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
7. The back of the blade on a scythe.

Translations

Verb

chine (third-person singular simple present chines, present participle chining, simple past and past participle chined)

1. (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
2. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chin (“crack, fissure, chasm”), from Old English ?ine, ?inu, from Proto-Germanic *kin?.

Noun

chine (plural chines)

1. (Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
   • 1885, Jean Ingelow, A Cottage in a Chine

     The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.

   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 169

     In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.

Related terms

• chine
• chink

Etymology 3

From Middle English ch?nen (“to crack, fissure, split”), from Old English ??nan (“to break into pieces, burst, crack”), from Proto-Germanic *k?nan? (“to split; crack; germinate; sprout”).

Verb

chine (third-person singular simple present chines, present participle chining, simple past and past participle chined or chone or chane)

1. (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break. [9th-16th c.]
   • 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge ... the seven penytencyall Psalms

     After the erth be brent, chyned & chypped by the hete of the sonne.

Related terms

• chine

References

• An historical dictionary

Anagrams

• Chien, niche

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -in

Verb

chine

1. first-person singular present indicative of chiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of chiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of chiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of chiner
5. second-person singular imperative of chiner

Anagrams

• chien, niche, niché

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ç?n??]

Noun

chine m

1. Lenited form of cine.

Italian

Adjective

chine

1. feminine plural of chino

Noun

chine f pl

1. plural of china

English

Etymology

Clipping of cinefilm, from Ancient Greek ????? (k?né?, “to move”).

Noun

cine (uncountable)

1. (chiefly attributive) cinefilm

   a cine camera

   cine enthusiasts

2. (medicine) Images of the heart taken by fluoroscopy.

Anagrams

• Ince, NICE, Nice, Niec, cien, icen, nice

Asturian

Etymology

Clipping of cinema, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k??n?ma, “movement”).

Noun

cine m (plural cines)

1. cinema

Catalan

Etymology

Clipping of cinema, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k??n?ma, “movement”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?si.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?si.ne/

Noun

cine m (plural cines)

1. cinema (movie theater)
2. cinema (the art of making films and movies)

Further reading

• “cine” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

Clipping of cinema, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k??n?ma, “movement”).

Noun

cine m (uncountable)

1. cinema

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?c?n??/

Noun

cine m (genitive singular cine, nominative plural ciníocha)

1. race (large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage or common physical characteristics)

Declension

Derived terms

• eachtarchine (“foreign race”)

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

Clipping of cinema, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k??n?ma, “movement”).

Noun

cine m (invariable)

1. cinema
2. cinematography

Anagrams

• ceni

Romani

Adjective

cine

1. plural of cino

Romanian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ine

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *quene, from Latin quem, accusative singular of qu?, from Old Latin quei, from Proto-Italic *k?oi, from Proto-Indo-European *k?is, *k?os. Compare Aromanian tsini, Sardinian chíne, Spanish quien, Dalmatian ci.

Pronoun

cine (genitive/dative cui)

1. who

Derived terms

• cineva
• oricine
• altcineva

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

cine f pl

1. plural of cin?

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of cinema, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k??n?ma, “movement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??ine/, [??i.ne]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sine/, [?si.ne]

Noun

cine m (plural cines)

1. cinema, moviehouse

   Synonym: cine

2. film (when specifying types of films)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• anticine
• autocine

Related terms

Further reading

• “cine” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Volapük

Noun

cine

1. dative singular of cin