Difference between Tink and Clink

What is the difference between Tink and Clink?

Tink as a verb is to emit a high-pitched noise. 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.

Tink

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To emit a high-pitched noise.

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 Tink or Clink in your sentence.

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