Meaning of chin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
2. beard
3. A chinchilla.
   informal
4. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
5. A surname from Chinese.
6. A tribe in Myanmar.
   plural, plural-only
7. A state of Myanmar.
8. Talk.
   US, slang
9. Synonym of Zo (“a language of Myanmar”).
10. A lie, a falsehood.
    British, slang
11. beardy, bearded man
12. A person of the upper class.
    British, slang
13. the part of an old man (in a play)
14. The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
    uncountable
15. the villain (of a play)
16. The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
17. The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.

Equivalents

Examples

“What does it mean to have a pointy chin instead of a flat chin?”

“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.”

“The phone's chin looks different from the rest of it.”

“The most amazing poems in human history are the Huêi-wên-tʻü or the revolving chart, by Lady Su Huêi, of the Chin Dynasty (265-419), and the Chʻien-tzŭ-wên, or thousand-character literature, by Chou Hsing-ssŭ, (fifth century a.d.)”

“The second significant feature in the development of Chinese literature is the immense influence of Buddhist literature on the development of every sphere of Chinese literature since the East Chin Period (A.D. 317).”

“Wang Tao, the head of a great northern family, emigrated to the south and there became the chief architect of the Eastern Chin dynasty, a regime noted for excellent calligraphy.”

“In the fourth year of the reign of the Emperor Hsiao Wu [r. 372-396] of the Chin Dynasty [265-420], Hsüeh Tao-hsün of An-lu County in the Chiang-hsia Commandery [in Hupeh Province] was twenty-two.”

“Oral tradition and archaeological evidence suggest the Chin were the earliest Tibeto-Burman group to come to the Chindwin Valley, a settlement process starting as early as the 4ᵗʰ century.”

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