sink

Definitions of sink in various dictionaries:

noun - plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe

noun - (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system

noun - a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof

noun - a covered cistern

verb - fall or descend to a lower place or level

verb - cause to sink

verb - pass into a specified state or condition

verb - go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

verb - descend into or as if into some soft substance or place

verb - appear to move downward

verb - fall heavily or suddenly

verb - fall or sink heavily

verb - embed deeply

To descend to the bottom; submerge.

To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages: The water in the lake sank several feet during the long, dry summer.

To subside or settle gradually, as a massive or weighty structure.

To appear to move downward, as the sun or moon in setting.

To slope downward; incline.

To pass into a specified condition: She sank into a deep sleep.

To deteriorate in quality or condition: The patient is sinking fast.

To diminish, as in value.

To become weaker, quieter, or less forceful: His voice sank to a whisper.

To drop or fall slowly, as from weakness or fatigue: The exhausted runner sank to the ground.

To feel great disappointment or discouragement: Her heart sank within her.

To seep or soak; penetrate: The water is sinking into the ground.

To make an impression; become felt or understood: The meaning finally sank in.

To cause to descend beneath a surface: sink a ship.

To cause to drop or lower: sank the bucket into the well.

To force into the ground: sink a piling.

To dig or drill (a mine or well) in the earth.

To occupy the full attention of; engross.

To make weaker, quieter, or less forceful.

To reduce in quantity or worth.

To debase the nature of; degrade.

To bring to a low or ruined state; defeat or destroy.

To suppress or hide: He sank his arrogance and apologized.

To defeat, as in a game.

To invest: sink money into a new housing project.

To invest without any prospect of return.

To pay off (a debt).

To get (a ball) into a hole or basket.

A water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe and generally a piped supply of water.

A cesspool.

A sinkhole.

In thermodynamics, the part of a system from which heat, or more generally, energy is removed from the system.

To succeed or fail without alternative.

adj - to move to a lower level [v SANK, SUNK or SUNKEN, SINKING, SINKS] : SINKABLE

SINK - A sink also known by other names including sinker, washbowl, hand basin and wash basinis a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture used for washing hands, dish...