Difference between Jail and Clink

What is the difference between Jail and Clink?

Jail as a verb is to imprison. while Clink as a verb is to make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

Jail

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To imprison.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A prison; a place of detention; a place where a person convicted or suspected of a crime is detained. Confinement in a jail. school The requirements that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for (usually) 30 days.

Example sentence: You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

Clink

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.Jail or prison, after the Clink prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase .Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

We hope you now know whether to use Jail or Clink in your sentence.

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