Crossword clues for brink
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brink \Brink\ (br[i^][ng]k), n. [Dan. brink edge, verge; akin to
Sw. brink declivity, hill, Icel. brekka; cf. LG. brink a
grassy hill, W. bryn hill, bryncyn hillock.]
The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a
precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a
border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. ``The brink of
vice.''
--Bp. Porteus. ``The brink of ruin.''
--Burke.
The plashy brink of weedy lake.
--Bryant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Middle Low German brink "edge," or Danish brink "steepness, shore, bank, grassy edge," from Proto-Germanic *brenkon, probably from PIE *bhreng-, variant of root *bhren- "project, edge" (cognates: Lithuanian brinkti "to swell").
Wiktionary
n. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also used figuratively.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Brink, stylized as brink. is an American news documentary television series that was produced by CBS Eye Too Productions for the Science Channel and that originally aired from November 28, 2008 to August 25, 2009. The program is hosted by Australian Josh Zepps and presents stories about up and coming science and technology in a magazine style.
Brink (norra delen) is a village in Botkyrka Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden. According to the 2005 census it had a population of 77 people.
Brink may refer to:
- Brink!, 1998 Disney Channel film
- Brink (TV series), a scientific television series that airs on the Science Channel
- Brink (video game), a video game developed by Splash Damage
- Brink (surname)
- Brink Productions, a theatre company based in South Australia
- Brink, Virginia
- Brink, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Brink, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, a ghost town
- Brink (norra delen), a location in Botkyrka Municipality in Sweden
- Brink tram stop in Amstelveen, Netherlands
- Brink Junior High School, South Oklahoma City
- PAM Brink Stadium, Springs, South Africa
Brink is a German and Dutch surname and means village green. It is also thought to have originally meant "hill with green grass". Notable people with the surname include:
- Alex Brink (born 1985), Canadian Football League quarterback
- André Brink (1935-2015), South African novelist
- Andries Brink (1877-1947), South African lieutenant general
- April Brink (born 1992), Author, Poet, Spiritualist
- Bernhard Brink (1952), German singer
- Bernhard Egidius Konrad ten Brink (1841-1892), German scholar
- Carol Ryrie Brink (1895-1981), American novelist
- Chris Brink, (born 1951-) South African academic
- Christian Brink (born 17 March 1983) is a Norwegian footballer
- George Brink (1889-1971), South African lieutenant general
- Jan van den Brink (1915-2006), Dutch politician and banker
- Jörgen Brink (born 1974), Swedish cross-country skier and biathlete
- Jos Brink (1942-2007), Dutch performer and journalist
- Josefin Brink (born 1969), Swedish politician
- Julius Brink (born 1982), German beach volleyball player
- Larry Brink (born 1928), former National Football League defensive lineman
- Maria Brink, vocalist for American heavy metal band In This Moment
- Robert Brink (1924-2014), American violinist, conductor, and educator
- Robert H. Brink (born 1946), American politician
- Robert ten Brink (born 1955), Dutch presenter and actor
- Royal Alexander Brink (1897-1984), plant geneticist and breeder at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brink is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was released in North America on 10 May 2011, in Australia on 12 May 2011, in Europe on 13 May 2011 and in Japan on 16 August 2011.
In Brink, two factions, Resistance and Security, battle in a once- utopian city called The Ark, a floating city above the waters of a flooded Earth.
Brink has Steamworks integration, including Valve Anti-Cheat. It runs on id Tech 4 and has an updated rendering framework with improved support for multiple CPU cores. Brink is a first-person shooter with a focus on parkour-style movement. Online multiplayer servers hold up to 16 players; players can play cooperatively or competitively, or against artificially-intelligent bots.
The game received mixed to mediocre reviews. , Brink had sold 2.5 million copies.
Usage examples of "brink".
The Allegiancy is tumbling over the brink of disintegration, and trying to blame us.
Starting from an antipodal position, Kundera shares with Leclerc that sense of hovering at the borderline where a thought or situation, stretched to maximum intensity, teeters on the brink of collapse into the ridiculous or the absurd.
Digen had felt just this so often at the brink of attrition, at the gathering of a fourth primary abort, at the lip of sudden death.
On the brink of attrition, Vee uttered a choked cry, convulsed by the worst breakout contractions Rimon had ever seen.
Feather looked up, and his veins seemed to transform into ice when he beheld the hulking, bearish figures on the brink of the ravine, perhaps 30 yards distant on the right-hand side.
Feather looked up, and his veins seemed to transform into ice when he beheld the hulking, bearish Figures on the brink of the ravine, perhaps 30 yards distant on the right-hand side.
Digen was still fighting for inner equilibrium, half aware of Sels and Bett poised at the brink of transfer.
When he heard her music and sensed she was at the brink of release, he bridled her fulfillment by changing the rhythm of the movement of his hips.
There would be no civil war if the exploiters who have carried mankind to the very brink of ruin had not prevented every forward step of the laboring masses, if they had not instigated plots and murders and called to their aid armed help from outside to maintain or restore their predatory privileges.
Early in the next afternoon they reached the brink of the Great South Sea and Don was transferred to a crazy wagon, a designation which applied to both boat and crewa flat, jet-propelled saucer fifteen feet across manned by two young extroverts who feared neither man nor mud.
In deference to the war effort, the AFL resisted quietly, but in April 1945, with Germany on the brink of defeat, Meany decided to take off his muzzle.
Both men were bleeding from a score of deep scratches, for they were fighting in the thorny pandanus scrub on the very brink of the cliff.
Tatum hiked along the meandering brink of the precipice, hoping a navigable cleft or rift would show itself, enabling them to descend and backtrack along their original parafoil flight path.
Exalted Inquisitor Parell Hyath stood upon the brink of pitching chaos, his hands held over his stomach in a posture of reflection and contemplation.
To any dependent intelligence blessed with our human susceptibilities, reverential love and submission are as obligatory, natural, and becoming on the brink of annihilation as on the verge of immortality.