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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. chining: Merriam-Webster
  2. chining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chining: Vocabulary.com
  4. chining: Wordnik
  5. chining: Wiktionary
  6. chining: Dictionary.com
  7. chining: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chining: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chining: Medical dictionary

(Note: See chin as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Chin)

noun:  The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.
noun:  (slang, US) Talk.
noun:  (slang, British) A lie, a falsehood.
noun:  (slang, British) A person of the upper class.
noun:  (boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.
noun:  (aviation) The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
noun:  The bottom part of a mobile phone, below the screen.
verb:  (slang, dated, intransitive) To talk.
verb:  (slang, dated, transitive) To talk to or with (someone).
verb:  (reflexive, intransitive) To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar).
verb:  (chiefly UK, transitive) To punch or hit (someone), especially on the chin (part of the body).
verb:  (transitive) To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.
verb:  (transitive) To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.
verb:  (transitive) To put one's chin on (something).
verb:  (transitive) To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.
noun:  (informal) A chinchilla.
noun:  A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
noun:  A surname from Hakka.
noun:  A tribe in Myanmar.
noun:  A state of Myanmar
noun:  Synonym of Zo: a language of Myanmar.
noun:  (obsolete) Alternative form of China. [A nation or civilization occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers in East Asia, taken as a whole under its various dynasties.]
noun:  (obsolete) Alternative form of Jin: an ancient Chinese state and various medieval Chinese dynasties. [A river (晉水) in Shanxi Province, China, emptying into the Fen River.]
▸ Also see chin


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