sink

noun

household appliance for washing hands or dishes
where a resource is consumed (source vs sink)
(cause to) go down, esp into water, downward motion

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verb

drop under water
(cause to) go down, esp into water, downward motion

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋk/ / /ˈsiŋk/ / /zɪŋk/

name

Etymology: From the Dutch and northern German surname, from Zink (“cornetto, trumpet-like instrument”).

A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”). Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

A basin used for holding water for washing.
“Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink. Jen: Oh. Oh! Roy: Yeah... Jen: Which sink? Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house. Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him.”
A drain for carrying off wastewater.
A sinkhole.
A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
A heat sink.
A place that absorbs resources or energy.
A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
Descending motion; descent.
“An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.”
Descending motion; descent.
“Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.”
An object or callback that captures events.
A destination vertex in a transportation network.
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.
A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
An excavation smaller than a shaft.
One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.

verb

To move or be moved into something.
“A stone sinks in water. The sun gradually sank in the west.”
To move or be moved into something.
“An iceberg sank the Titanic. British battleships sank the Bismarck.”
To move or be moved into something.
“Before installing the new surfacing material, sink any protruding nails.”
“I have to take the turn, sink hooks and nails so I'll return And it could get me every time, but I must taste fire Infectious is the flame that burns”
To move or be moved into something.
“to sink a well in the ground”
“As was the case with the City & South London, powers were taken to sink shafts from temporary staging in the river, about 240 ft. from the south bank, from which to begin boring the tunnels, and the first pile for the staging was driven on June 18, 1894.”
To move or be moved into something.
“My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.”
To diminish or be diminished.
“But open converse is there none, ⁠So much the vital spirits sink ⁠To see the vacant chair, and think, ‘How good! how kind! and he is gone.’”
“I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in black.”
To diminish or be diminished.
“to sink one's reputation”
“And if I have a conscience, let it sink me”
To diminish or be diminished.
“Who would sink so low as to steal change from veterans?”
To conceal and appropriate.
“If you are sent with ready money to buy anything at a shop, and happen at that time to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on your master's account.”
To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
“I say not always dishonorable qualifications, but a certain flexibility of disposition; a certain courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths, and adapt ourselves to the prejudices of the minds of others […]”
To drink (especially something alcoholic).
“So let's sink another drink / 'Cause it'll give me time to think”
“[…] just thought she was wrecked from all the Diamond White ciders she'd been sinking – I'd even bought her a couple of Blastaways, which in hindsight was a mistake.”
To pay absolutely.
“I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project.”
“for 13 of his 15 years in charge, Burrell sank more money into the farm than he received in revenues, and the estate was £1.5m overdrawn.”
To reduce or extinguish by payment.
“to sink the national debt”
To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
“I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.”
“then keep an even steady Fire under them, not too fierce at first, lest you scorch them; and let not the Fire sink or slacken, but rather increase till the Hops be near dry'd”
To die.
“However, before the entire mass was detached, a copious oozing of blood took place, when the patient lost from a pint to a pint and a half; and which, doubtless, so lowered him that he never rallied, but sank in about an hour and a half after the operation was completed.”
“[…] as September drew towards its close, and reports came from Munich that Gömbös was sinking fast, the Right in their turn were credited by the Prager Presse and by certain foreign journalists, who drew their inspiration from the same sources, with sensational designs.”
To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
“The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him: / Through wind and waves, and storms he works his way”
“It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.”