zinc

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zinc

Chemical element
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Zinc cube, fragment and dendrite.

EtymologyEdit

From German Zink, related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Middle High German zinke, from Old High German zinko (“prong, tine”), allied to zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Old English tind (“tine, prong”), Middle Low German tinde, Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). See also Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), More at tine.

PronunciationEdit

(US) enPR: zingk, IPA^(key): /zɪŋk/
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Rhymes: -ɪŋk

NounEdit

zinc (countable and uncountable, plural zincs)

A chemical element (symbol Zn) with an atomic number of 30.
(countable) A single atom of this element.
(Britain, dated, colloquial) A zinc countertop.
- 1904, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
  Then, three workmen throwing dice for drinks. And their heads come sharply together as they count the scores. And so violently do they throw the dice that they shoot off "the zinc" on to the floor.
- 2010, Chris Ackerley, Demented Particulars (page 44)
  Even if there were a Chef and Brewer near Marble Arch, the name suggests a pint and pie, not a prawn and tomato sandwich and “a dock glass of white port off the zinc”; i.e., a small glass of a fine aperitif, at the counter […]

Derived termsEdit

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TranslationsEdit

element

Afrikaans: sink (af)
Albanian: zink (sq) m
Amharic: ዚንክ (zink)
Arabic: خَارَصِين‎ m (ḵāraṣīn), تُوتِيَاء‎ m (tūtiyāʾ), زِنْك‎ m (zink)
Armenian: ցինկ (hy) (cʿink)
Asturian: cinc (ast) m
Azerbaijani: sink (az)
Basque: zinka
Belarusian: цынк m (cynk)
Bengali: দস্তা (dôsta)
Berber:
Tashelhit: aqzdir m
Breton: zink (br) m
Bulgarian: цинк m (cink)
Burmese: သွပ် (my) (swap), ဇင့်ခ် (jang.hk)
Catalan: zinc (ca)
Central Melanau: zink
Cherokee: ᎦᏙᎤᎳᏂ (gadoulani)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鋅 (zh), 锌 (zh) (xīn)
Cornish: synk
Czech: zinek (cs) m
Danish: zink (da) c or n
Dutch: zink (nl) n
Esperanto: zinko (eo)
Estonian: tsink (et)
Faroese: sink
Finnish: sinkki (fi)
French: zinc (fr) m
Friulian: zinc
Galician: cinc (gl)
Georgian: თუთია (tutia)
German: Zink (de) n
Greek: ψευδάργυρος (el) m (psevdárgyros), τσίγκος (el) m (tsígkos)
Greenlandic: zinki
Hebrew: אָבָץ‎ (he) m (avats)
Hindi: जस्ता (hi) m (jastā)
Hungarian: cink (hu)
Icelandic: sink (is)
Ido: zinko (io)
Indonesian: seng (id)
Interlingua: zinc
Irish: sinc (ga)
Italian: zinco (it) m
Japanese: 亜鉛 (ja) (あえん, aen)
Kashubian: cynk
Kazakh: мырыш (kk) (mırış)
Khmer: ស័ង្កសី (km) (sangkaʾsəy), សាំង្កសី (km) (sangkaʾsəy), ស័ង្គសី (sangkaʾsəy)
Korean: 아연 (ko) (ayeon) (亞鉛 (ko))
Kyrgyz: цинк (ky) (tsink)

Lao: ສັງກະສີ (sang ka sī)
Latin: zincum (la)
Latvian: cinks m
Lingala: zɛ́nki class 9a/10a
Lithuanian: cinkas (lt)
Luxembourgish: Zénk
Macedonian: цинк m (cink)
Malay: zink (ms), seng, timah sari, ayan
Malayalam: നാകം (ml) (nākaṃ), വെളുത്തീയം (ml) (veḷuttīyaṃ)
Maltese: żingu m
Manx: shinc m, meain ghorrym f
Maori: konutea, tingiki
Mongolian: цайр (mn) (tsajr), цинк (tsink)
Navajo: béésh dootłʼizh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sink (no) m or n

Nynorsk: sink (nn) m or n
Pashto: زينک‎ m (zink), جست‎ (ps) m (ǰast)
Persian: روی‎ (fa) (ruy)
Polish: cynk (pl) m
Portuguese: zinco (pt) m
Romanian: zinc (ro) n
Russian: цинк (ru) m (cink)
Scottish Gaelic: sinc
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ци̏нк m

Roman: cȉnk (sh) m
Slovak: zinok (sk) m
Slovene: cink (sl) m
Spanish: zinc (es) m, cinc (es) m
Swahili: zinki class 9/10
Swedish: zink (sv) n
Tagalog: sink (tl), singk
Tajik: руҳ (ruh)
Tamil: நாகம் (ta) (nākam)
Thai: สังกะสี (th) (sǎng-gà-sǐi)
Tibetan: ཏི་ཚ (ti tsha)
Turkish: çinko (tr)
Turkmen: sink
Ukrainian: цинк m (cynk)
Urdu: جست‎ (jast)
Uyghur: سىنك‎ (sink)
Uzbek: rux (uz), sink (uz)
Cyrillic: рух
Vietnamese: kẽm (vi)
Volapük: zinkin (vo)
Welsh: zinc (cy)
West Frisian: sink n
Yiddish: צינק‎ n (tsink)

VerbEdit

zinc (third-person singular simple present zincs, present participle zincing or zinking or zincking, simple past and past participle zinced or zinked or zincked)

(rare) To electroplate with zinc.
(rare) To coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide.

SynonymsEdit

(electroplate with zinc): galvanize

TranslationsEdit

electroplate with zinc

coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide

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