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Definition sink

Etymology

From Old English sincan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *seng?- (“to fall, sink”). Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka.

Verb

sink (third-person singular simple present sinks, present participle sinking, simple past sank or sunk, past participle sunk or sunken)

1. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
   1. (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
   2. (transitive) To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
   3. (transitive) To push (something) into something.
   4. (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
   5. (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
2. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
   1. (intransitive, figuratively, of the human heart) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
   2. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
   3. (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
3. (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
4. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
5. (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
6. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
7. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
8. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

Noun

sink (plural sinks)

1. A basin used for holding water for washing
2. A drain for carrying off wastewater
3. (geology) A sinkhole
4. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
5. A heat sink
6. A place that absorbs resources or energy
7. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch
8. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
9. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network
10. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
11. A depression in a stereotype plate.
12. (theater) A stage trap-door for shifting scenery.
13. (mining) An excavation less than a shaft.

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