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clink

/klingk/US // klɪŋk //UK // (klɪŋk) //

碰撞,叮当,叮叮当当,碰

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to make or cause to make a light, sharp, ringing sound: The coins clinked together. He clinked the fork against a glass.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a clinking sound.
    • : Metallurgy. a small crack in a steel ingot resulting from uneven expanding or contracting.
    • : a pointed steel bar for breaking up road surfaces.
    • : Archaic. a rhyme; jingle.

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Examples

  • I’m in a dimly lit steakhouse with a crowd of fellow diners around me, their voices and the clinks of glassware harmonizing into a convivial hum, no masks to be seen or six feet of social distance observed.

  • You can clink your wine glass and deliver an impassioned speech about conquering the demons that kept you confined in the closet.

  • Sannikov and the other opposition candidates are arrested and thrown in the clink, along with thousands of ordinary citizens.

  • The penalty was what Kozlovsky alluded to without knowledge of its origin: 15 days in the clink, plus a fine.

  • All day long the place rings with the clink of hammers and the clang of metal bars.

  • Try to remember that name as you curse him out on your way to the clink.

  • The clink of the stone-masons' chisels had resounded year after year from morning till night.

  • When a man's in clink, his nag gets nothing but mild exercise till his rightful rider gets out.

  • Fragment, apparently from a columnar mass, of a stone intermediate between clink-stone and compact felspar.

  • The north of Blue-Mud Bay has furnished also specimens of ancient sandstone; with columnar rocks, probably of clink-stone.

  • I have now sent three letters to the tenant, one Clink, by teamsters, and he has never replied.