sink

sink

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

1. (intransitive) to descend into a liquid or other substance or material
2. (transitive) to submerge (something) in a liquid or other substance or material
3. (transitive) to cause (a ship, etc) to sink
4. (transitive) to push (something) into something
   • The dog sank its teeth into the delivery mans leg.
   • The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.
5. (intransitive) Describing metaphorically the experience of apprehension, disappointment, or momentary depression as felt via an internal human organ (usually the heart)
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     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.

   • 1915 Burgess, Thronton W., The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston; ch. XIX:

     Peters heart sank. ""Dont you think it is dreadful?"" he asked.

6. (snooker, pool, billiards, golf) to pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole
   • 2008, Edward Keating , The Joy of Ex: A Novel

     She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.

     “Have you been practising?” I ask my sister.

     “Some,” she says, “play again?”

     “One more.”

     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.

Wikipedia

1. A basin used for holding water for washing
   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, Guardian:

     The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping noise ""like a crisp packet being popped"" coming from the kitchen followed by a ""screeching"" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.

2. A sinkhole
3. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
4. A heat sink
5. A place that absorbs resources or energy
6. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch

   Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.

7. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
8. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network

	affondare
	cause (ship, etc) to sink
	descend into liquid, etc
	To fall or drop to a lower place or level.
	Mandare un'imbarcazione a picco, a fondo.
	To cause a boat to go down in the water.

	immergere
	submerge

	sprofondare
	descend into liquid, etc

andare a fondo

	abbassarsi
	Diventare minore.

	bacino
	Una scodella, catino, usato per lavarsi, che di solito é fissato al muro.
	A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.

	dolina
	A natural depression or hole in the surface topography caused by the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks.

	lavabo
	Una scodella, catino, usato per lavarsi, che di solito é fissato al muro.
	A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.

	sink
	A device or part of a device that receives something from another device.

abbassare

acquaio

affogare

bagno

cadere

calare

catinella

cedere

digradare

dimenticare

far calare

inabissare

incontrare

lavandino

lavello

perforare

pozzo

ribassare

scendere

sommergere

toccare

tuffare

tuffarsi

Altri significati:

heat sink

(transitive) to submerge (something) in a liquid or other substance or material

go down (sun)

basin

A sinkhole

A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet

(computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink

(transitive) to push (something) into something

A heat sink

(intransitive) to descend into a liquid or other substance or material

sink (in men’s estimation)

(transitive) to cause (a ship, etc) to sink

push (something) into

(snooker, pool, billiards, golf) to pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole

A basin used for holding water for washing

A place that absorbs resources or energy

(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch

(to) sink

(intransitive) Describing metaphorically the experience of apprehension, disappointment, or momentary depression as felt via an internal human organ (usually the heart)

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