Kink
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English
Noun
Kink (plural Kinks)- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.
- (slang) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation
Verb
Kink (third-person singular simple present Kinks, present participle Kinking, simple past and past participle Kinked)
- (transitive) To form a kink.
- (intransitive) To be formed into a kink.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
acute pain, birthmark, bite, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, boring pain, boutade, brainstorm, bug, bulla, capriccio, caprice, catch, charley horse, check, cicatrix, cicatrize, cirrus, coil, comedo, complication, conceit, corkscrew, crack, cramp, cramps, crank, crater, craze, crazy idea, crick, crimp, crinkle, crisp, crotchet, curl, curlicue, darting pain, deface, defacement, defect, defection, deficiency, deform, deformation, deformity, difficulty, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, distort, distortion, drawback, eccentricity, evolute, fad, failing, failure, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, fault, faute, flaw, flimflam, foible, fool notion, frailty, freak, freakish inspiration, freckle, fulgurant pain, girdle pain, gnawing, griping, gyre, harebrained idea, helix, hemangioma, hickey, hitch, hole, humor, idiosyncrasy, imperfection, inadequacy, infirmity, involute, jumping pain, keloid, knot, lancinating pain, lentigo, little problem, maggot, mar, megrim, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, nip, notion, pang, paroxysm, passing fancy, pimple, pinch, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prick, problem, pustule, quirk, rift, ringlet, roll, scab, scar, scarify, scratch, screw, scroll, sebaceous cyst, seizure, sharp pain, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, shortcoming, snag, something missing, spasm, spiral, split, stab, stabbing pain, stitch, strawberry mark, sty, swirl, taint, tangle, tendril, thrill, throes, tormen, toy, track, tweak, twinge, twirl, twist, twitch, vagary, verruca, vesicle, volute, volution, vortex, vulnerable place, wale, warp, wart, weak link, weak point, weakness, weal, welt, wen, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, whirl, whitehead, whorl, wrench, wrinkle
Etymology
From Swedish
