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# clink

«clink» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short, light ringing sound, like glasses touching or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a clink, clinks); verb (clink, clinks, clinked, clinking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A clink is a short, light ringing sound, like glasses touching or coins falling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#m1)

2) To clink is to make that sound, or to touch glasses together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#m2)

3) «The clink» is an old slang word for prison. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a word of the story; a sound of coins or glasses; in stories it helps the reader hear the scene: coins in a piggy bank, ice in a glass, keys; at parties people clink glasses to celebrate

### examples

- The coins clink in the jar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#x1)
- We heard 5 clinks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#x2)
- The glasses clinked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#x3)
- Each coin made a clink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#x4)
- The ice clinked in her glass of lemonade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#x5)
- Everyone clinked glasses to wish Grandad a happy birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#x6)
- I heard the clink of keys at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#x7)
- The thief ended up in the clink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#x8)
- Donald held his peace, but after a while he heard the glasses clink, and Hudden singing away at the top of his voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/#x9)

### note

A story word; it carries no clue. Each clink may mark one coin, so clinks can be counted. A sound word: clink is light, clang is loud and heavy, clunk is dull.

### In the corpora

- [At last, right above their heads, they hear cheering, stamping and glasses clinking — the weasels' party.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clink» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clink/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.