Noun: chin
Sample Sentences
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What does it mean to have a pointy chin instead of a flat chin?
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To paint chins of aircraft
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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 […] [1990, Army, volume 40:]
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Lockheed Martin's system is mounted behind a transparent, low-observable window blended into the aircraft's chin. [2001, Aviation Week & Space Technology:]
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The phone's chin looks different from the rest of it.
Nouns inflected like chin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
chyn', Danish Nouns '
kind', Icelandic Nouns '
kinn', Latin Nouns '
gena', Ancient Greek Nouns '
γένυς'.
Verbs referencing "chin"
Danish Nouns
kind, Swedish Nouns
kind, Icelandic Nouns
kinn, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
kinn, German Nouns
Kinn, Ancient Greek Nouns
γένυς, Ancient Greek Nouns
γνάθος, Irish Nouns
gion.