Chunk vs. Chink — What's the Difference?

A thick mass or piece

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.

(Informal) A substantial amount

A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure.

A strong stocky horse.

A slight, metallic sound, as of coins rattling in a pocket.

To form into chunks.

Used as a disparaging term for a person of Chinese birth or descent.

To make a dull clacking sound

To make narrow openings in.

A part of something that has been separated.

To fill narrow openings in.

A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.

To make or cause to make a slight, metallic sound.

A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.

A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.

(computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.

A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.

(comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.

A chip or dent in something metallic.

(transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.

(figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.

(transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.

(countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.

To throw.

Ready money, especially in the form of coins.

Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.

(transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

A short, thick piece of anything.

(intransitive) To crack; to open.

A compact mass;

(transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

Put together indiscriminately;

(intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.

Group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

(transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.

A chinaman; a chinese person; - disparaging and offensive.

A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

Money; cash.

To crack; to open.

To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

Offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent

A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall

A short light metallic sound

Make or emit a high sound;

Fill the chinks of, as with caulking

Make cracks or chinks in;