sink
IPA: sˈɪŋk
noun
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A heat sink.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- A surname.
verb
- (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
- (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (intransitive, archaic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
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Examples of "sink" in Sentences
- I washed receptacles in the sink.
- He survived the sinking of the ship.
- One of the bolts on the sink is loose.
- Frohman died in the sinking of the ship.
- He survived from the sinking of the ship.
- The song fades as the triangles sink into the sea.
- Socrates saw the name sink into Ralphie’s shoulders.
- In the confusion of the ship sinking, the twins are parted.
- I pause after “play,” letting the weight of the word sink in.
- The destroyer began to drop bombs to try to sink the enemy submarine.
- It the sinking feeling that the editor was disinclined to discuss it.
- Beside the sink is a hole to dip out water that is stored in the box.
- The cause of the sinking is thought to be that the ship was overloaded.
- While brushing at the sink is a step up from brushing at the tub, "we're not there yet" * as the French would say.
- I cut off the stems, slit them open, and take out the seeds (I find shaking them over the sink is the easiest method as the seeds can fly everywhere).
- I happened one day to be employed in the back kitchen, or what they termed the sink-room, and I soon became aware that I was the subject of conversation by the family in the room adjoining.
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