What does brink mean?
Definitions for brink
brɪŋkbrink
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Princeton's WordNet
brink, threshold, vergenoun
a region marking a boundary
brinknoun
the edge of a steep place
verge, brinknoun
the limit beyond which something happens or changes
"on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy"
Wiktionary
brinknoun
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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
BRINKnoun
The edge of any place, as of a precipice or a river.
Etymology: brink, Danish.
Th’amazed flames stand gather’d in a heap,
And from the precipice’s brink retire,
Afraid to venture on so large a leap. John Dryden, Ann. Mirab.We stand therefore on the brinks and confines of those states at the day of doom. Francis Atterbury.
So have I seen, from Severn’s brink,
A flock of geese jump down together;
Swim where the bird of Jove wou’d sink,
And, swimming, never wet a feather. Jonathan Swift.
Wikipedia
brink
Brink (stylized as BRINK) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage and published by Bethesda Softworks for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in May 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 strong 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 or average reviews but was commercially successful. As of 2012, Brink had sold over 2.5 million copies and generated around $120–140 million in revenue. The PC version of Brink became free-to-play on 22 August 2017.
ChatGPT
brink
Brink is defined as the edge or margin of a steep place or of land bordering water, typically indicating the point at which something is likely to happen, often a disaster or a catastrophe. It can also represent a critical point beyond which a specified condition, situation, or action is expected to begin or cease.
Webster Dictionary
Brinknoun
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
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Brink
bringk, n. the edge or border of a steep place or of a river: (fig.) the very verge of time, at the very point of something—e.g. To be on the brink of death. [Dan. brink, declivity; Ice. bringa, a hillock.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BRINK
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Brink is ranked #2989 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Brink surname appeared 11,982 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Brink.
93.6% or 11,221 total occurrences were White.
2.3% or 282 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.5% or 185 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
1.3% or 167 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.7% or 87 total occurrences were Asian.
0.3% or 40 total occurrences were Black.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of brink in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of brink in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of brink in a Sentence
The situation on the Korean peninsula is again inching close to the brink of a war.
Marine Staff Sgt. James Carey:
James does a lot for me and all the other Marines who've been involved with his running, to see where he started from, on the brink of being dead, to now, after all the work he's done, that does a lot more for us than I think we do for him.
We found opposing us an axis of powers ... led by the governments of Spain and Portugal which for obvious political reasons attempted to lead the entire negotiations to the brink.
I've said before that we will take no deal over a bad deal, but if I can prove that the deal we've put in place assures us through indisputable verification mechanisms that Iran cannot achieve breakout capacity, if I've got a bunch of scientists and nuclear experts saying this assures us that Iran is not on the brink of being a nuclear weapons power, then that's a public debate we should have.
I would advise President Trump: 'Don't worry about them sticking that label on you. Congress owns the government shutdown brand,' there's no incentive, frankly, for either side to go to the brink.
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