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Definition: Ink |
InkNoun1. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing. 2. Dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods. Verb1. Append one's signature to; "They inked the contract". 2. Fill with ink; "ink a pen". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ink" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Satire | INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material. There are men called journalists who have established ink baths which some persons pay money to get into, others to get out of. Not infrequently it occurs that a person who has paid to get in pays twice as much to get out. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To see ink spilled over one's clothing, many small and spiteful meannesses will be wrought you through envy. If a young woman sees ink, she will be slandered by a rival. To dream that you have ink on your fingers, you will be jealous and seek to injure some one unless you exercise your better nature. If it is red ink, you will be involved in a serious trouble. To dream that you make ink, you will engage in a low and debasing business, and you will fall into disreputable associations. To see bottles of ink in your dreams, indicates enemies and unsuccessful interests. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Ink Pancirollus says the emperors used a fluid for writing called encaustum. (Italian, inchiostro; French, encre; Dutch, inkt.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An ink is a liquid containing various pigments and/or dyes used for colouring a surface to render an image or text. Common perceptions consider ink for use in drawing or writing with a pen or brush. However, inks are used most extensively in printing.Early varieties of ink include Indian ink, various natural dyes made from metals, the husk or outer covering of nuts or seeds, and sea creatures like the squid. India ink is black and originated in Asia. Walnut ink and iron-gall nut ink were made and used by many of the early masters to obtain the golden brown ink used for drawing.
Pigmented inks contain other agents to ensure adhesion of the pigment to the surface and prevent its being removed by mechanical abrasion. These materials are typically referred to as resins (in solvent-based inks) or binding agents (in water-based inks).
Pigmented inks have the advantage when printing on paper that the pigment stays on the surface of the paper. This is desirable, because when more ink stays on the surface of the paper, less ink needs to be used to create the same intensity of colour.
Dyes, however, are generally much stronger and can produce more colour of a given density per unit of mass. However, because dyes are dissolved in the liquid phase, they have a tendency to soak into paper, thus making the ink less efficient and also potentially allowing for the ink to bleed at the edges, producing unsightly and poor-quality printing.
To circumvent this problem, dye-based inks are made with solvents that dry rapidly or are used with quick-drying methods of printing, such as blowing hot air on the fresh print. Other methods, particularly suited to inks that are used in non-industrial settings (and thus must conform to tighter toxicity and emission controls), such as ink-jet printer inks, include coating the paper with a charged coating. If the dye has the opposite charge, then it is attracted to and retained by this coating, while the solvent soaks into the paper. Cellulose, the material that paper is made of, is also naturally charged, and so a compound that complexes with both the dye and the paper surface aids retention at the surface. Such a compound in common use in ink-jet printing inks is polyvinyl pyrrolidone.
An additional advantage of dye-based ink systems is that the dye molecules interact chemically with other ink ingredients. This means that they can benefit more than pigmented ink from optical brighteners and colour-enhancing agents designed to increase the intensity and appearance of dyes. Because dyes get their colour from the interaction of electrons in their molecules, the way in which the electrons can move is determined by the charge and extent of electron delocalisation in the other ink ingredients. The colour emerges as a function of the light energy that falls on the dye. Thus, if an optical brightener or colour enhancer absorbs light energy and emits it through or with the dye, the appearance changes, as the spectrum of light re-emitted to the observer changes.
A disadvantage of dye-based inks is that they can be more susceptible to fading, especially when exposed to ultraviolet light, as in sunlight.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ink."
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Ink is a small community in Polk County, Arkansas. Among the stories about how its name was chosen in 1887 is one based on a misunderstanding. When the townsfolk were completing the government application to establish a post office, they interpreted the instruction "Write in ink" literally and entered the name "Ink" as the proposed town name. This was accepted as the official name.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ink, Arkansas."
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Legend has it that Ink, a small hamlet in Shannon County, Missouri, got its name in 1886 at a time when the Post Office Department had sent a directive to the states that new post office names should be as short as possible, preferably with only three letters. In the course of a protracted town meeting on the matter, someone spilled a bottle of ink and that served as inspiration for the town name.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ink, Missouri."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Book | Writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; poet. |
Earliness | Suddenly; (instantaneously); before one can say "Jack Robinson", at short notice, extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; at once; on the spot, on the instant; at sight; offhand, out of hand; a' vue d'oeil; straight, straightway, straightforth; forthwith, incontinently, summarily, immediately, briefly, shortly, quickly, speedily, apace, before the ink is dry, almost immediately, presently at the first opportunity, in no long time, by and by, in a while, directly. |
Writing | Take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink. |
Stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink. | |
Stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ink |
| English words defined with "ink": Copying ink ♦ drawing ink ♦ indelible ink, India ink, Ink bag, ink bottle, ink cartridge, ink eraser, Ink plant, Ink powder ♦ Japan ink ♦ marking ink ♦ Pen and ink, printer's ink, printing ink ♦ writing ink. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ink": desensitizing ink ♦ extraneous ink ♦ gold ink ♦ Ink Blot Tests, ink cell, ink jet, ink pad, ink printer ♦ Magnetic Ink Character Recognition ♦ OMR ink ♦ quickset ink ♦ silver ink ♦ thermal ink. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ink": Atramentaceous. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hey! You guys made me ink! (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) Ink isn't worth anything to me, Winslow (Phantom of the Paradise; writing credit: Brian De Palma) That's how you detect invisible ink. Weren't you ever in the Boy Scouts (Arabesque; writing credit: Gordon Cotler; Julian Mitchell) How dare you live in a place with a roof, you user of ink! (Excel Saga; writing credit: Hideyuki Kurata; Yôsuke Kuroda) And who supplied the Serb cluster bombs, the Croatian tanks, the Muslim artillery shells that killed our sons and daughters? It was the governments of the West who drew the boundaries of our countries -- sometimes in ink, sometimes in blood -- the blood of our people (The Peacemaker; writing credit: Leslie Cockburn; Andrew Cockburn) | |
Lyrics | He's gettin' ink done (Pretty Fly; performing artist: The Offspring) The ink is black, the page is white (Black and White; performing artist: Three Dog Night) | |
Clever | A drop of ink may make a million think. (references; author: unknown) Ink dries, paper burns; but what is written in the soul will last an eternity. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ko-Ko's Hot Ink (1929) Invisible Ink (1921) When Kitty Spilled the Ink (1915) Antics in Ink by Hy Mayer (1913) Red Ink Tragedy (1912) | |
Song Titles | Ink and Pen (performing artist: Sandy Andina) | |
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 | A pen and ink drawing showing a woman getting a mammogam and assisted by a radiology technician. Credit: Al Louang (artist). |  | Indian Ink capsule stain is useful for improving visualization of encapsulated Bacillus anthracis in clinical samples such as blood, blood culture bottles, or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Credit: CDC. |
 | The old SURVEYOR in Alaska in 1931. Ink sketch by _ Bean. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Soybean oil gives a much lighter color vehicle for ink than a petroleum-based formula. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
 | Soybeans have found their way into an eye-opening array of foods. And thanks to ARS research, soybeans have been incorporated into a host of nonfood products. These range from your morning newspaper printed with so oil-based ink to lipstick, plastics. flooring, paints, and stain-removing cleaners. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | India ink scratchboard drawing of a pair of Canada Geese and their brood by Alderson Magee, 1940 Lakeshore Drive, Sagle, Idaho 83860. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
 | Brush and ink drawing of Mallards by Jay N. "Ding" Darling, a famous cartoonist and noted conservationist. The artist was chief of the Biological Survey, a precursor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, from 1934 to 1936. "Ding" conceived the idea of using duck stamps to raise money for the purchase of wetlands. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page Visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home. |  | Reproduction of an 1864 pen & ink drawing by George S. Waterman, C.S.N., depicting the action as seen from above and inside the entrance to Mobile Bay. Confederate ships present are (as identified on the drawing): Selma, Morgan, Gaines (shown twice, in the battle line, and beached off Fort Morgan after the battle) and Tennessee. Union monitors shown are (from the front of the line): Tecumseh (sinking after striking a mine), Manhattan, Winnebago and Chickasaw. The leading two steam sloops in the Union line are Brooklyn and Hartford. Small diagram in the lower right represents the various efforts by Union ships to ram the Tennessee later in the action. Credit: NAVY. |
 | "India Ink copy of Photograph of H.I.M. Adler, bow view on reef. Bridge over River Mulvai" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows German gunboat Adler as she lay on the western side of Apia Harbor after the storm, with the Mulivai River bridge in the left background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Corking ink bottles. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Ink reservoir 1" by Ashvin Jetpuria Commentary: "Mont Blanc ink reservoir at various angles. More can be uploaded if requested." | "Ink bottle" by Emmanuel Rivet Commentary: "Black inck bottle - Parker." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? |
Confucius | Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. |
Horace Walpole | Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. |
| It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. | |
Lord Byron | But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. |
The Koran | The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I always use hot ink, myself, in the winter |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had his arms bare, like the first, and a mask of ink or of soot |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Before him lay a new pen, a new bottle of ink and a new emerald exercise |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Give me some ink and paper in my tent |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He brought with him pen, ink, and paper, and three or four books, giving me to understand by signs, that he was sent to teach me the language |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The yellow and red organic and intermediates (DCB) are needed to satisfy the demand for the auto, aviation, printing ink, plastics, and coating industries. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Guinea | Seven private newspapers (Le Lynx, La Lance, L'Oeil, Le Democrat, L'Independant, La Nouvelle Tribune, and L'Observateur) publish weekly in Conakry, and up to 10 other publications appear sporadically, although they are hampered by technical and financial difficulties stemming from paper and ink taxes. (references) |
Economic History | Israel | Samsung Electronics, Daewoo, Nomura, Goldtron, Hutchison Telecom, Nissho Iwai, LG Group, Sony, Toyo Ink, Hyundai, Acer Computers, Fuki, Honda. (references) |
Kenya | The introduction in 1996 of the Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) system in the banks' clearinghouse has facilitated faster clearing of checks. (references) | |
Trade | Sri Lanka | All labeling of packages should be in large bold lettering in indelible ink or paint. (references) |
Egypt | All these details have to be printed or sealed with indelible ink on the packages directly or on the original card of the producing entity. (references) | |
Argentina | In addition, a properly authorized member of the firm must sign each copy of the invoice presented (i.e., the original and three copies), manually, in ink. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Unless, of course, you're talking about red ink. |
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| "Ink" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.07% of the time. "Ink" is used about 648 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.07% | 629 | 10,317 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.23% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.92% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.77% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 648 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ink" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ink | Last name | 100 | 71,741 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Dainippon Ink & Chemicals Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "ink": before the ink is dry ♦ before the ink was dry ♦ black ink ♦ china ink ♦ Chinese ink ♦ copying ink ♦ desensitizing ink ♦ dip one's pen in ink ♦ draw in indian ink ♦ drawing ink ♦ dull as ink ♦ extraneous ink ♦ gold ink ♦ indelible ink ♦ india ink ♦ indian ink ♦ ink bag ♦ Ink berry ♦ ink blot ♦ Ink Blot Tests ♦ ink bottle ♦ ink cap ♦ ink cartridge ♦ ink cell ♦ ink diffuser ♦ ink eraser ♦ ink fish ♦ ink in ♦ ink jet ♦ ink jet printer ♦ ink out ♦ ink over ♦ ink pad ♦ ink pen ♦ ink pencil ♦ Ink plant ♦ ink pot ♦ Ink powder ♦ ink printer ♦ ink ribbon ♦ ink sac ♦ ink spot ♦ ink stand ♦ ink well ♦ invisible ink ♦ Japan ink ♦ magnetic Ink Character Recognition ♦ marking ink ♦ OCR ink ♦ OMR ink ♦ pen and ink ♦ Printer's ink ♦ printing ink ♦ quickset ink ♦ shed ink ♦ silver ink ♦ sling ink ♦ spill ink ♦ spots of ink ♦ sympathetic ink ♦ thermal ink ♦ thick ink ♦ transfer ink ♦ writing ink. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ink": ink-abuser, ink-and-dead-trees, ink-bespattered, ink-black, ink-block, ink-blot, ink-blotted, ink-blue, ink-chamber, ink-dark, ink-daubs, ink-exercise, ink-filled, ink-flavoured, ink-green, ink-horn, ink-horn term, ink-jet, ink-jet printer, ink-like, ink-lines, ink-pad, ink-pens, ink-resistant, ink-slinger, ink-stain, ink-stained, ink-stones, ink-well, ink-wells. | |
Ending with "ink": non-data-ink. | |
Containing "ink": data-ink-ratio, violet-ink-filled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ink cartridge | 2,317 | refill ink cartridge | 199 |
ink link | 1,662 | hp ink | 177 |
ink | 1,625 | discount ink | 162 |
printer ink | 1,551 | ink cartridge replacement | 147 |
epson ink cartridge | 825 | ink refill kit | 145 |
printer ink cartridge | 638 | canon printer ink | 144 |
hp ink cartridge | 548 | lexmark ink | 141 |
lip ink | 503 | lexmark ink refill | 140 |
ink refill | 492 | bulk ink | 139 |
lexmark ink cartridge | 490 | cheap printer ink | 139 |
ink pen | 457 | ink stain | 139 |
epson ink | 409 | epson printer ink | 129 |
cheap ink cartridge | 362 | cannon ink cartridge | 129 |
discount ink cartridge | 317 | canon ink | 128 |
printer ink refill | 272 | carrot ink | 128 |
ink jet printer | 238 | epson ink refill | 126 |
canon ink cartridge | 226 | printing ink | 125 |
tattoo ink | 223 | printer ink hp | 122 |
inkjet ink | 220 | cannon printer ink refill | 120 |
cheap ink | 209 | ink lake | 118 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ink"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bojë shtypi (transfer ink), bojë shkrimi. (various references) | |
Arabic | مداد الحبار سائل, حبر (pontiff). (various references) | |
Basque | tinta. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нацапвам букви мастило, мастило (writing ink), изцапвам с мастило. (various references) | |
Catalan | tinta. (various references) | |
Chinese | 墨水 . (various references) | |
Czech | inkoust. (various references) | |
Danish | blæk. (various references) | |
Dutch | inkt. (various references) | |
Esperanto | inko. (various references) | |
Faeroese | blekk. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرکب زدن , مرکب (Composite, Roadster), جوهر (Acid, Heart, Juice, Marrow, Quintessence). (various references) | |
Finnish | muste. (various references) | |
French | encre, encrer. (various references) | |
Frisian | inket. (various references) | |
German | Tinte, einfärben (dye, tone). (various references) | |
Greek | μελάνι, μελανώνω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לדית (diffuse, exude), דיו. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tinta. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tinta, dawet. (various references) | |
Italian | inchiostro. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 墨 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すみ (arranged, charcoal, corner, nook, settled, taken care of), インク , インキ . (various references) | |
Korean | 잉크. (various references) | |
Malay | tinta. (various references) | |
Manx | dooghey (black, blacken, darken), dooaghey (blacken), doo (black, black headed, black-haired, bold, dark, dirty, inky, negroid, sable), daa screeuee, cur doo er. (various references) | |
Norwegian | blekk. (various references) | |
Occitan | tencha. (various references) | |
Papiamen | enk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inkay.(various references) | |
Polish | atrament. (various references) | |
Portuguese | tinta (dye, paint, tint). (various references) | |
Romanian | slovã (letter, word), scrie cu cernealã, pãta cu cernealã (blot), cernealå, cernealã (black). (various references) | |
Russian | черная жидкость, чернила чернильный, чернила (writing ink), тушь (Indian ink, mascara), типографская краска (transfer ink, transfer-ink). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mastilo. (various references) | |
Shona | chidzimamuriro (ink flower). (various references) | |
Spanish | tinta (ceruse, cudbear, drawing ink, tail), entintar (ink in). (various references) | |
Sranan | enki. (various references) | |
Swahili | wino. (various references) | |
Swedish | bläck (Cuttle). (various references) | |
Tagalog | tínta. (various references) | |
Thai | น้ำหมึก, ลงหมึก, หมึกจากปลาหมึก. (various references) | |
Turkish | mürekkeplemek, mürekkeple üzerinden geçmek, mürekkep. (various references) | |
Turkmen | syяa. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чорнило (atrament), забруднити чорнилом, позначати (appellate, check, denominate, denote, designate, earmark, tick off). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | từ mượn khó hiểu (ink-horn term), sừng đựng mực (ink-horn), mực nho (india ink, indian ink), mực hoá học (invisible ink, sympathetic ink), lọ mực (ink-bottle, ink-pot), hộp mực dấu (ink-pad), chai mực (ink-bottle), công việc sáng tác văn học (pen and ink), các thứ để viết (pen and ink), bút nghiên công việc viết văn (pen and ink). (various references) | |
Welsh | inc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | enkauston. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sepiam, sepium. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | enque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 3 John Chapter 1, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Polla eicon grafein all ou qelw dia melanoV kai kalamou soi grayai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Multa habui scribere tibi sed nolui per atramentum et calamum scribere tibi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Y hadde many thingis to wryte to thee, but Y wolde not write to thee bi enke and penne. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | I have many thinges to wryte: but I will not with ynke and penne wryte vnto the. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write to thee: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I had much to say to you, but it is not my purpose to put it all down with ink and pen: |
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| Language | 3 John Chapter 1, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Daghan akog igsusulat kanimo, apan dili ko kini sulaton pinaagi sa dagang ug tinta. |
| Chinese | 我 原 有 許 多 事 要 寫 給 你 、 卻 不 願 意 用 筆 墨 寫 給 你 ． |
| Croatian | Mnogo bih ti imao pisati, ali neæu da ti pišem crnilom i perom. |
| Danish | Jeg havde meget at skrive til dig, men jeg vil ikke skrive til dig med Blæk og Pen. |
| Dutch | Ik had veel te schrijven, maar ik wil u niet schrijven met inkt en pen; |
| Finnish | Minulla olisi paljon kirjoittamista sinulle, mutta en tahdo kirjoittaa sinulle musteella ja kynällä, |
| French | J`aurais beaucoup de choses à t`écrire, mais je ne veux pas le faire avec l`encre et la plume. |
| German | Ich hatte viel zu schreiben; aber ich will nicht mit der Tinte und der Feder an dich schreiben. |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen gen anpil bagay pou m' ta di ou. Men, mwen pa vle ekri yo ak plim ak lank. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Banyak sekali yang perlu saya katakan kepadamu, tetapi saya rasa lebih baik jangan melalui surat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Banyaklah perkara yang hendak kusuratkan kepadamu, tetapi tiada aku suka menuliskan dengan dawat dan kalam; |
| Italian | Molte cose avrei da scriverti, ma non voglio farlo con inchiostro e penna. |
| Latvian | Man bûtu daudz kas tev rakstâms, bet es negribu tev rakstît ar tinti un spalvu. |
| Maori | He maha nga mea hei tuhituhinga atu maku, otira e kore ahau e pai kia tuhituhi atu ki a koe ki te mangumangu, ki te pene: |
| Norwegian | Jeg hadde meget å skrive til dig, men jeg vil ikke skrive til dig med blekk og penn; |
| Portuguese | Tinha eu muitas coisas que te escrever, mas não o quero fazer com tinta e pena. |
| Rumanian | Aw avea sq-yi spun multe lucruri, dar nu voiesc sq yi le scriu cu cernealq wi condei. |
| Russian | нОПЗПЕ ЙНЕМ С РЙУБФШ; ОП ОЕ ИПЮХ РЙУБФШ Л ФЕВЕ ЮЕТОЙМБНЙ Й ФТПУФША, |
| Shuar | Wi ti nukap Títinian wakerajme. Túrasha ju papinium mashi aatrashtatjame |
| Spanish | Tenía muchas cosas que escribirte, pero no quiero hacerlo por medio de tinta y pluma. |
| Swahili | Ninayo bado mengi ya kukwambia, lakini sipendi kuyaandika kwa kalamu na wino. |
| Swedish | Jag hade väl mycket annat att skriva till dig, men jag vill icke skriva till dig med bläck och penna. |
| Uma | Wori' -pidi to dota ku'uki' -koko, tapi' uma-a dota mpo'uki' hi rala sura toi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Words beginning with "ink": inkberries, inkberry, inkblot, inkblots, inked, inker, inkers, inkhorn, inkhorns, inkier, inkiest, inkiness, inkinesses, inking, inkjet, inkle, inkles, inkless, inklike, inkling, inklings, inkpot, inkpots, inks, inkstand, inkstands, inkstone, inkstones, inkwell, inkwells, inkwood, inkwoods, inky. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ink": bethink, blink, bobolink, brink, chewink, chink, clink, countersink, cufflink, dink, distelfink, doublethink, downlink, drink, eyewink, fink, firepink, gink, groupthink, hoodwink, hyperlink, iceblink, interlink, jink, kink, link, mink, misthink, nonshrink, oink, outdrink, outthink, overdrink, overthink, pink, plink, preshrink, prink, ratfink, reink, relink, rethink, rink, shrink, sink, skink, slink, stink, swink, think, unkink. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ink": antiwrinkle, besprinkle, besprinkled, besprinkles, besprinkling, bethinking, bethinks, blinkard, blinkards, blinked, blinker, blinkered, blinkering, blinkers, blinking, blinks, bobolinks, brinkmanship, brinkmanships, brinks, brinksmanship, brinksmanships, chewinks, chinkapin, chinkapins, chinked, chinkier, chinkiest, chinking, chinks, chinky, clinked, clinker, clinkered, clinkering, clinkers, clinking, clinks, countersinking, countersinks, crinkle, crinkled, crinkles, crinklier, crinkliest, crinkling, crinkly, cufflinks, dinked, dinkey, dinkeys. (additional references) | |
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"Ink" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akn, ank, bnk, cink, enk, Enki, Iak, Ianke, ick, Idk, Igk, Ikb, iko, inak, inb, inco, incr, Ineka, inf, Ingka, Inh, ini, inj, Inko, Inkoo, inl, inna, inni, inno, Ino, inok, Inoki, inp, inq, Inr, i'nt, Inu, inx, iny, Inz, ipk, ipn, isk, isnik, Iuk, ivn, ixk, lnk, nc, nic, nifk, nik, nika, Nikb, niki, nilk, Nivkh, nk, onk, unk, unkn, vink, ynk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ink" (pronounced i"ngk) |
| 3 | i" ng k | blink, brink, chink, cinque, clink, dink, drink, fink, interlink, link, mink, minke, pink, plink, rethink, rink, shrink, sink, stink, swink, sync, think, wink, zinc. |
| 2 | -ng k | antitank, bank, blank, bonk, brank, bronc, bunk, chunk, clank, clunk, conch, conk, crank, dank, debunk, doublethink, drank, drunk, Dunk, flank, flunk, franc, Frank, funk, gangplank, Hank, honk, hoodwink, hunk, hyperlink, interbank, junk, lank, monk, multibank, nonbank, outflank, plank, plunk, prank, precinct, punk, rank, riverbank, sank, shank, shrank, shrunk, skunk, spank, Spunk, stank, stunk, sunk, swank, tank, thank, trunk, yank. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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