Synonyms of the word

chink

• n. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
• n. A chip or dent (in something metallic).
• n. (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
• v. (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
• v. (intransitive) To crack; to open.
• v. (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
• n. A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other.
• n. (colloquial, now rare) Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
• v. (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing…
• n. Alternative form of Chink.

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

cleft

• n. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
• n. A piece made by splitting.
• n. A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of cleave.

click

• n. A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something…
• n. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
• n. Sound made by a dolphin.
• n. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
• n. The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
• v. (transitive, computing) (direct and indirect) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
• v. (transitive, computing) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse…
• v. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit a web site.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
• v. (intransitive) To emit a click.
• v. (intransitive) To click the left button of a computer mouse while pointing.
• v. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To get on well.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To tick.
• interj. The sound of a click.
• n. Alternative spelling of klick.
• n. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward…
• n. (Britain, dialect) The latch of a door.
• v. (obsolete) To snatch.
• n. (US) Misspelling of clique.
• v. (US) Misspelling of clique.

clink

• n. (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
• v. To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such…
• v. (humorous, dated) To rhyme.
• n. (slang) Jail or prison, after the Clink prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase in the clink.
• n. Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

crack

• v. (intransitive) To form cracks.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
• v. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
• v. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
• v. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
• v. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
• v. (transitive) To strike forcefully.
• v. (transitive) To open slightly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative).
• v. (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.).
• v. (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
• v. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
• v. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application…
• v. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
• v. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
• v. (obsolete) To brag, boast.
• v. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
• n. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
• n. A narrow opening.
• n. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
• n. A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
• n. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
• n. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
• n. (informal) An attempt at something.
• n. (vulgar, slang) vagina.
• n. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous…
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business/events/news.
• n. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
• n. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
• n. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
• n. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
• n. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
• n. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
• n. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
• n. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
• n. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
• n. (slang, dated, Britain) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
• adj. Highly trained and competent.
• adj. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

crevice

• n. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
• v. To crack; to flaw.

fissure

• n. A crack or opening, as in a rock.
• n. (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear; a sulcus.
• v. To split, forming fissures.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

plug

• n. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
• n. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
• n. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
• n. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
• n. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
• n. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
• n. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features…
• n. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
• n. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
• n. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually…
• n. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the…
• v. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
• v. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
• v. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
• v. (slang, transitive) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.

scissure

• n. A longitudinal opening made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

tink

• v. To emit a high-pitched sharp or metallic noise.
• n. (dated) A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.
• v. (knitting, slang, transitive) To unknit.
• n. (chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the travelling community. A gypsy.

tinkle

• v. (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
• v. (intransitive, informal, juvenile) To urinate.
• v. (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
• v. (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
• v. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
• n. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
• n. (Britain, informal) A telephone call.
• n. (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.