FromMiddle Englishynke, fromOld Frenchenque, fromLatinencaustum(“purple ink used by Roman emperors to sign documents”), fromAncient Greekἔγκαυστον(énkauston,“burned-in”), fromἐν(en,“in”) +καίω(kaíō,“burn”). In this sense, displaced nativeOld Englishblæc(“ink”, literally“black”).

• (Received Pronunciation,General American)enPR:ĭngk,IPA^(key):/ɪŋk/
• (pre-/ŋ/ tensing)IPA^(key):/iŋk/

• Audio(General American):

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• Homophone:inc.
• Rhymes:-ɪŋk

ink (usuallyuncountable,pluralinks)

2. Apigment (ordye)-basedfluid used for writing, printing etc.

   This form should be filled out inink.

   • 1667 May 6 (date written; Gregorian calendar),Samuel Pepys,Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 26th, 1667”, inHenry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor,The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VI, London:George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge:Deighton Bell & Co., published1895,→OCLC,page285:

     While I was waiting for him in the Matted Gallery, a young man was most finely working in Indianinke the great picture of the King and Queen sitting [Charles I of England andHenrietta Maria of France], by Van Dyke [Anthony van Dyck]; and did it very finely.

3. (countable) A particulartype,color orcontainer of this fluid.
4. Theblack ordark-colored fluid ejected bysquid,octopus etc, as a protective strategy.
5. (slang,uncountable)Publicity.

   Synonyms:ballyhoo,flak,hoopla,hype,plug,spotlight

   togetink

   The TSA has been getting a lot ofink lately.

   • 1999 June 4,Washington Post:

     [Judith] Hope[…] has been gettingink by the barrelful with her regular interviews quoting conversations with the first lady, on subjects ranging from Senate ambitions to summer and post-White House living arrangements.

6. (slang,uncountable)Tattoo work.

   Synonym:paint

   • 1998, Richard Dooling,Brain Storm:

     "I saw it hanging on the wall of a tattoo hut where I went to get someink done ten years ago," he stuttered, flushing in splotches and squirming in his chair.

   • 1998, “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)”, performed by The Offspring:

     Now he's getting a tattoo / Yeah, he's gettingink done / He asked for a 13, / But they drew a 31

7. (slang)Cheapred wine.

• inke(obsolete)

• → Japanese:インク(inku)
• → Korean:잉크(ingkeu)
• → Telugu:ఇంకి(iṅki)
• → Welsh:inc

ink (third-person singular simple presentinks,present participleinking,simple past and past participleinked)

1. (transitive) Toapplyink to; tocover orsmear with ink.
   • 1919, R. H. Leigh,How to Obtain Good Finger Prints, third edition, U.S. Navy Department Bureau of Navigation, page 1:

     A plain impression is obtained by pressing the bulb of the finger, with the plane of the nail parallel to the plane of the plate, on theinked plate and then on the paper in the same manner.

2. (transitive) Tosign (a contract or similar document).
   • 2021 December 13, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, inTime Magazine‎^[1]:

     Before Musk, America’s space industry was moribund. In 2011, NASA mothballed the last space shuttle, afterinking a deal withSpaceX to make uncrewed cargo resupply runs to the International Space Station (ISS).

3. (transitive) To apply atattoo to (someone).
4. (intransitive, of a squid or octopus) to eject ink (sense 3)

• (sign):endorse,initial,inscribe,subscribe

• dye
• atrament

•  ink on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -kin,-kin-,-nik,Kin,Nik,k'in,kin

FromDutchinkt.

• IPA^(key):/əŋk/

ink (pluralinkteorinke)

1. ink

ink (presentink,present participleinkende,past participlegeïnk)

1. to ink

ink

1. Alternative form ofinc