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Definition of Ink

Ink

  1. The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
  2. A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.
  3. A pigment. See India ink, under India.
  4. To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.

Ink Quotations

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Mark Twain

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley
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Ink Translations

ink in Dutch is inkt
ink in Finnish is muste
ink in French is encre
ink in German is Tinte
ink in Hungarian is tinta
ink in Italian is inchiostro
ink in Norwegian is blekk, blekk
ink in Portuguese is tinta
ink in Spanish is tinta

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