different between orifice vs chink
orifice
English
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French, from Late Latin orificium (“an opening, literally the making of a mouth”), compound of os (“mouth”) + facio (“to make”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????f?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /????f?s/
Noun
orifice (plural orifices)
- A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Late Latin orificium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.?i.fis/
- Rhymes: -is
Noun
orifice m (plural orifices)
- an orifice
Further reading
- “orifice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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chink
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /t???k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin; but apparently an extension (with formative -k) of Middle English chine, from Old English ?ine (“a crack, chine, chink”), equivalent to chine +? -k.
Alternatively, the -k may represent an earlier unrecorded diminutive, perhaps from Middle English *chinek, making it equivalent to chine +? -ock (diminutive ending).
Noun
chink (plural chinks)
- A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, 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.
- 1842 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
- Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky, / Shines out the dewy morning star.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- A chip or dent in something metallic.
- (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
Translations
Verb
chink (third-person singular simple present chinks, present participle chinking, simple past and past participle chinked)
- (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
- (intransitive) To crack; to open.
- (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Translations
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
chink (plural chinks)
- A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
- (colloquial, now rare) 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 […]
- 1855, Henry Augustus Wise, Tales for the Marines (page 121)
- At the same time, mind, I must have a bit of a frolic occasionally, for that's all the pleasure I has, when I gets a little chink in my becket; and ye know, too, that I don t care much for that stuff, for a dollar goes with me as fur as a gold ounce does with you, when ye put on your grand airs, and shower it about like a nabob.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, pp. 47-8:
Translations
Verb
chink (third-person singular simple present chinks, present participle chinking, simple past and past participle chinked)
- (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- He chinks his purse
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
chink (plural chinks)
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”)
Verb
chink (third-person singular simple present chinks, present participle chinking, simple past and past participle chinked)
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”)
Etymology 4
Noun
chink (plural chinks)
- Alternative letter-case form of Chink
Anagrams
- Hinck, Kinch
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