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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsynken, fromOld Englishsincan, fromProto-West Germanic*sinkwan, fromProto-Germanic*sinkwaną, fromProto-Indo-European*sengʷ-(“to fall, sink”).

CompareWest Frisiansinke,Low Germansinken,Dutchzinken,Germansinken,Danish andNorwegian Bokmålsynke,Swedishsjunka. In the causative sense, it replacedOld Englishsenċan(“make sink”) fromProto-Germanic*sankwijaną.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sink (third-person singular simple presentsinks,present participlesinking,simple pastsankor(dialectal)sunk,past participlesunkor(archaic)sunken)

  2. (heading, physical)To move or be moved into something.
    1. (ergative) Todescend orsubmerge (or to cause to do so) into aliquid or similar substance.
      A stonesinks in water. The sun graduallysank in the west.
    2. (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause avessel to sink, generally by making it no longerwatertight.
      An icebergsank theTitanic. British battleshipssank theBismarck.
    3. (transitive) To push (something) into something.
      • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor,Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books,→ISBN, page11:
        Before installing the new surfacing material,sink any protruding nails.
      The joint will hold tighter if yousink a wood screw through both boards. The dogsank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.
    4. (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
      tosink a well in the ground
    5. (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) Topot; hit a ball into apocket or hole.
      • 2008, Edward Keating,The Joy of Ex: A Novel:
        My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammysinks the black.
  3. (heading, social)To diminish or be diminished.
    1. (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experienceapprehension,disappointment,dread, or momentarydepression.
      • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson],In Memoriam, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC, Canto XX,page34:
        But open converse is there none,
        ⁠So much the vital spiritssink
        ⁠To see the vacant chair, and think,
        ‘How good! how kind! and he is gone.’
      • 1897,Bram Stoker, chapter 21, inDracula, New York, N.Y.:Modern Library,→OCLC:
        I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heartsank 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.
      • 1915,Thornton W. Burgess, chapter XIX, inThe Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
        Peter's heartsank. "Don't you think it is dreadful?" he asked.
    2. (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
      tosink one's reputation
    3. (intransitive) Todemean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, ormorals.
      • 2013 April 24, Steve Henschel,Niagara This Week:
        Who wouldsink so low as to steal change from veterans?
  4. (transitive, slang, archaic) Toconceal andappropriate.
    • 1726,Jonathan Swift,Gulliver's Travels:
      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.
  5. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
    • 1849 December 15,Frederick William Robertson, Sermon 14, “The Principle of Spiritual Harvest”:
      I say not always dishonorable qualifications, but a certain flexibility of disposition; a certain courtly willingness tosink obnoxious truths, and adapt ourselves to the prejudices of the minds of others […]
  6. (transitive, slang) Todrink (especially something alcoholic).
    • 2021, Barbara Copperthwaite,The Girl in the Missing Poster:
      […] just thought she was wrecked from all the Diamond White ciders she'd beensinking – I'd even bought her a couple of Blastaways, which in hindsight was a mistake.
  7. (transitive, slang) Topay absolutely.
    • 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      for 13 of his 15 years in charge, Burrellsank more money into the farm than he received in revenues, and the estate was £1.5m overdrawn.
    I havesunk thousands of pounds into this project.
  8. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
    tosink the national debt
  9. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
    • c.1606 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene iii]:
      I think our countrysinks beneath the yoke.
    • 1721, John Mortimer,The Whole Art of Husbandry:
      then keep an even steady Fire under them, not too fierce at first, lest you scorch them; and let not the Firesink or slacken, but rather increase till the Hops be near dry'd
  10. (intransitive, archaic) Todie.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:die
    • 1865 June 17, C. C. Richards, M.D., &c., “Report of a Case of Multiple Fatty Tumours”, inThe Lancet, volume85, number2181, London: George Fall, page650:
      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, butsank in about an hour and a half after the operation was completed.
    • 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney,October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1,page174:
      […] as September drew towards its close, and reports came from Munich that Gömbös wassinking fast, the Right in their turn were credited by thePrager Presse and by certain foreign journalists, who drew their inspiration from the same sources, with sensational designs.
  11. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
    • a.1746,Joseph Addison,The Tragedy of Cato, act I, scene i:
      The Alps and Pyreneanssink before him: / Through wind and waves, and storms he works his way
    • 1879,R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, inThe Amateur Poacher, London:Smith, Elder, & Co., […],→OCLC:
      It was not far from the house; but the groundsank 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.

Usage notes

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  • Use ofsunk for the simple past instead ofsank is not uncommon, but may be considered non-standard. See also the obsoletesench.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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descend into liquid, etc
submerge
cause (ship, etc) to sink
push (something) into

Noun

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
a bathroomsink (basin for holding water)

sink (pluralsinks)

  2. Abasin used forholdingwater forwashing.
    • 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan,The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1:
      Roy: The work was fiiine. There wasnothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in thesink.
      Jen: Oh. Oh!
      Roy: Yeah...
      Jen: Whichsink?
      Roy: All thesinks. Yeah, he basically went on a peeparade around the house.
      Jen:Oh God, I have to fire him.
  3. Adrain forcarrying offwastewater.
  4. (geology) Asinkhole.
  5. Adepression inland wherewatercollects, with novisibleoutlet.
  6. Aheat sink.
  7. Aplace thatabsorbsresources orenergy.
  8. (ecology) Ahabitat that cannotsupport apopulation on its own butreceives theexcess ofindividuals from some othersource.
  9. (uncountable)Descendingmotion;descent.
    An excessivesink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.
    1. (baseball) Themotion of asinkerpitch.
      Jones has a two-seamer with heavysink.
  10. (computing, programming) Anobject orcallback thatcapturesevents.
    Coordinate terms:data sink,event sink
  11. (graph theory) Adestinationvertex in atransportation network.
  12. (graph theory) Anode indirected graph for which all of itsedges go into it; one with nooutgoing edges.
  13. Anabode ofdegradedpersons; awretchedplace.
  14. Adepression in astereotypeplate.
  15. (theater) Astagetrapdoor forshiftingscenery.
  16. (mining) Anexcavation smaller than ashaft.
  17. (game development) One or severalsystems thatremovecurrency from the game'seconomy, thuscontrolling orpreventinginflation.
    Antonym:faucet

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of“graph theory”):source

Derived terms

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Translations

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basin
wastewater drain
sinkhole—seesinkhole
heat sink
destination vertex

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References

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Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Chemical element
Zn
Previous:koper (Cu)
Next:gallium (Ga)

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromDutchzinken, fromMiddle Dutchsinken, fromOld Dutch*sincan, fromProto-Germanic*sinkwaną, fromProto-Indo-European*sengʷ-(“to fall, sink”).

Verb

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sink (presentsink,present participlesinkende,past participlegesink)

  1. (intransitive) tosink

Etymology 2

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FromDutchzink, fromGermanZink.

Noun

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sink (uncountable)

  1. zinc

Azerbaijani

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Chemical element
Zn
Previous:mis (Cu)
Next:qalium (Ga)

Etymology

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Borrowed fromGermanZink, probably viaRussianцинк(cink).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sink (definite accusativesinki,pluralsinklər)

  1. zinc

Estonian

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Etymology

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FromGermanSchinken.

Noun

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sink (genitivesingi,partitivesinki)

  1. ham

Declension

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Declension ofsink (ÕS type22e/riik,k-g gradation)
singularplural
nominativesinksingid
accusativenom.
gen.singi
genitivesinkide
partitivesinkisinke
sinkisid
illativesinki
singisse		sinkidesse
singesse
inessivesingissinkides
singes
elativesingistsinkidest
singest
allativesingilesinkidele
singele
adessivesingilsinkidel
singel
ablativesingiltsinkidelt
singelt
translativesingikssinkideks
singeks
terminativesinginisinkideni
essivesinginasinkidena
abessivesingitasinkideta
comitativesingigasinkidega

References

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Faroese

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Chemical element
Zn
Previous:kopar (Cu)
Next:gallium (Ga)

Etymology

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FromGermanZink.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sink n (genitive singularsinks,uncountable)

  1. (metal)zinc

Declension

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n3ssingular
indefinitedefinite
nominativesinksinkið
accusativesinksinkið
dativesinkisinkinum
genitivesinkssinksins

Derived terms

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Icelandic

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IcelandicWikipedia has an article on:
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Chemical element
Zn
Previous:kopar (Cu)
Next:gallín (Ga)

Etymology

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Borrowed fromGermanZink.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sink n (genitive singularsinks,no plural)

  1. zinc(chemical element)

Declension

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Declension ofsink (sg-only neuter)
singular
indefinitedefinite
nominativesinksinkið
accusativesinksinkið
dativesinkisinkinu
genitivesinkssinksins

Anagrams

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Louisiana Creole

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Louisiana Creole cardinal numbers
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   Cardinal :sink
   Ordinal :sinkyèmm

Etymology

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Inherited fromFrenchcinq(“five”).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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sink

  1. five

Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsink.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sink m (pluralsinkijiet)

  1. sink
    Synonym:mejjilla

Mauritian Creole

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Numeral

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sink

  1. Alternative spelling ofsenk

Norwegian Bokmål

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NorwegianWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediano

Noun

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sink m orn (definite singularsinkenorsinket)(uncountable)

  1. zinc (chemical element, symbolZn)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian NynorskWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediann

Etymology

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FromGermanZink.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sink m orn (definite singularsinkenorsinket)(uncountable)

  1. zinc (chemical element, symbolZn)

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West Frisian

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Verb

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sink

  1. first-personsingularpresent ofsinke
  2. imperative ofsinke
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