Chin vs. Shin

Chinnoun

The bottom of a face, the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.

Chinnoun

Talk.

Chinnoun

A lie, a falsehood.

Chinnoun

The ability to withstand being punched in the chin without being knocked out.

Chinnoun

(endearing) a chinchilla.

Chinverb

To talk.

Chinverb

To talk to or with (someone).

Chinverb

To perform a chin-up exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.

Chinverb

To punch or hit (someone)'s chin part of the body.

Chinverb

(transitive) To put or hold (a musical instrument) up to one's chin.

Chinverb

(transitive) To turn on or operate (a device) using one's chin; to select (a particular setting) using one's chin.

Chinverb

(transitive) To put one's chin on (something).

Chinverb

(transitive) To indicate or point toward (someone or something) with one's chin.

Chinnoun

The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

Chinnoun

The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.

Chinnoun

the protruding part of the lower jaw

Chinnoun

Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India

Chinverb

in gymnastics: raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar

Chin

The human chin (also known as the mental protuberance, mental eminence and, rarely, mental osseum, tuber symphyseos) refers to the forward pointed part of the anterior mandible (mental region) below the lower lip. A fully developed human skull has a chin of between 0.7 cm and 1.1 cm.

Shinnoun

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.

Shinnoun

A fishplate for a railway.

Shinnoun

The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Shinverb

To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

Shinverb

To strike with the shin.

Shinverb

To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

Shinnoun

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

Shinnoun

A fish plate for rails.

Shinverb

To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; - used with up; as, to shin up a mast.

Shinverb

To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.

Shinverb

To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.

Shinnoun

the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle

Shinnoun

a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg

Shinnoun

the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Shinnoun

the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle

Shinverb

climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling