Chunk vs. Chink — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Chunk and Chink
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Definitions
Chunk
A thick mass or piece
A chunk of ice.
Chink
Chink is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese descent. The word is also sometimes indiscriminately used against people of East Asian appearance in general.
Chunk
(Informal) A substantial amount
Won quite a chunk of money.
Chink
A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure.
Chunk
A strong stocky horse.
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Chink
A slight, metallic sound, as of coins rattling in a pocket.
Chunk
To form into chunks.
Chink
Used as a disparaging term for a person of Chinese birth or descent.
Chunk
To make a dull clacking sound
Listened to the rundown copier chunk along.
Chink
To make narrow openings in.
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Chunk
A part of something that has been separated.
The statue broke into chunks.
Chink
To fill narrow openings in.
Chunk
A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
A chunk of granite
Chink
To make or cause to make a slight, metallic sound.
Chunk
A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
Examples of chunks would include "in accordance with", "the results of", and "so far"
Chink
A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
Chunk
(computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
Chink
A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
I noticed a chink of light under the door.
Chunk
(comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
Chink
A chip or dent in something metallic.
The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.
Chunk
(transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
Chink
(figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
The chink in the theory is that the invaders have superior muskets.
Chunk
(transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
Chink
(countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
Chunk
To throw.
Chink
Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
Chunk
Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.
Chink
(transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
To chink a wall
Chunk
A short, thick piece of anything.
Chink
(intransitive) To crack; to open.
Chunk
A compact mass;
A ball of mud caught him on the shoulder
Chink
(transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Chunk
Put together indiscriminately;
Lump together all the applicants
Chink
(intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
The coins were chinking in his pocket.
Chunk
Group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
Chink
(transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Chink
A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.
Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.Shines out the dewy morning star.
Chink
A chinaman; a chinese person; - disparaging and offensive.
Chink
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
Chink
Money; cash.
Chink
To crack; to open.
Chink
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Chink
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chink
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Chink
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
Chink
Offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent
Chink
A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
Chink
A short light metallic sound
Chink
Make or emit a high sound;
Tinkling bells
Chink
Fill the chinks of, as with caulking
Chink
Make cracks or chinks in;
The heat checked the paint