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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