chin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
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government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
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war
Etymology: From Middle English chyn, from Old English ċinn (“chin”), from Proto-West Germanic *kinnu, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz (“chin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“chin, jaw”).
Compare West Frisian/Dutch kin, Low German/German Kinn, Danish kind, Icelandic kinn, Welsh gen, Latin gena, Tocharian A śanweṃ, Ancient Greek γένυς (génus, “jaw”), Armenian ծնոտ (cnot), Persian چانه (čâne), Sanskrit हनु (hánu). Doublet of gena.
Inflected forms:
form: chins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chinning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chinned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chinned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
pos: noun
examples: What does it mean to have a pointy chin instead of a flat chin?
gloss: Talk.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A lie, a falsehood.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A person of the upper class.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
pos: noun
examples: To paint chins of aircraft
In the cleft of the aircraft's chin is a small turret for a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) "eyeball" that will enable MH-47E pilots to see clearly in complete darkness […]
Lockheed Martin's system is mounted behind a transparent, low-observable window blended into the aircraft's chin.
gloss: The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
pos: noun
examples: The phone's chin looks different from the rest of it.
gloss: To talk.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
slang
examples: “I reckon you can explain, Mrs. Peabody.” […] “An’ I reckon that newcomer you’ve been chinning with could explain if he had a mind to.”
This little chore involved getting up at 3 A.M., working about two hours, then sitting around chinning and drinking coffee with the radio operators until too late to go back to sleep.
gloss: To talk to or with (someone).
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
transitive
examples: “Been up chinning your sporting editor, Ragsy Hurd. […]”
“What do you suppose that Seagreave’s chinning Hughie about[?]”
gloss: To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
examples: It is worth noting that on the eighth day he was strong enough to “chin” himself six times in succession, though previous to the fasting treatment he had never in his life been able to do this more than once or twice.
A description of the cour would be incomplete without an enumeration of the manifold duties of the planton in charge, which were as follows: to prevent the men from using the horizontal bar, except for chinning, since if you swung yourself upon it you could look over the wall into the women’s cour […]
The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years. Their bellies were like washboards. The muscles of their calves and upper arms were like cannonballs.
You can grunt and curse to your heart’s content but you cannot swing your body when chinning.
gloss: To punch or hit (someone), especially on the chin (part of the body).
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: He told me once that he used to be scared to death every time he started in a hard game for fear he’d get badly injured. Said it wasn’t until someone had jabbed him in the nose or ‘chinned’ him that he forgot to be scared.
‘I’m in trouble, I hit a policeman—chinned him. He was messin’ me about, pushin’ me around on the pavement, so I chinned him, didn’t I? […]’
gloss: To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Conspicuous in the front rank of “the music” was Joe Lippett, chinning his fife […]
A comical fellow hopped down from a stump and chinned his fiddle while Prince Chang stared.
Jimmy sat down at the piano, and the scientist tuned, then chinned the violin.
gloss: To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I was too tired to argue; I chinned the valve three or four times, felt a blast blistering my face.
I landed kind of sloppily on hands and knees and chinned the squad frequency. “First squad sound off!”
gloss: To put one's chin on (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] she elbowed the table and chinned her hand.
He chinned the alley fence and looked both ways along it.
gloss: To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But you don’t love him, said Madame Sonia with understanding. Do you love this one? Madame Sonia chinned the American.
A wry laugh bubbled up Carmen's throat as she turned to Blanca. "You brought us here to read?" "Try," Blanca said, chinning at the tome. […] Carmen glanced up between them and then chinned at the bathroom.
Derived words: baldchin groper
blackchin
bobchin
bum chin
butt chin
butt-chin
chinband
chinbone
chin cactus
chin cleft
chincloth
chin curtain
chin diaper
chin dimple
chinfest
chinful
chin guard
chinguard
chin job
chinless
chinlike
chinlock
chin music
chinny
chinny chin chin
chin omelette
chinpiece
chinrest
chin roll
chin shield
chinstrap
chin strip
chin up
chin-up
chin wag
chinwag
chin-wag
chin whelk
cleft chin
double chin
glass chin
keep one's chin up
lead with one's chin
superhero chin
take on the chin
take something on the chin
up to one's chin
up to the chin
chinning bar
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