sink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋk/
note: Baltimore, New Orleans
ipa: /zɪŋk/
homophone: cinque
homophone: sync
homophone: synch
homophone: zinc
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: a bathroom sink sink
form: sinks
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
glosses: A basin used for holding water for washing.
glosses: A drain for carrying off wastewater.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sinkhole.
glosses: A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
glosses: A heat sink.
glosses: A place that absorbs resources or energy.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
examples: text: An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.
glosses: Descending motion; descent.
examples: text: Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Descending motion; descent.
The motion of a sinker pitch.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: data sink
event sink
glosses: An object or callback that captures events.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A destination vertex in a transportation network.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
glosses: An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
glosses: A depression in a stereotype plate.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An excavation smaller than a shaft.
antonyms: faucet
qualifier: game development
glosses: One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
Synonyms: sense: basin
word: basin
sense: basin
word: washbasin
sense: basin
word: washbasin for washing fixtures without water supply
Derived terms: sense: washbasin
word: vessel sink
word: apron sink
word: behavioral sink
word: Belfast sink
word: carbon sink
word: Carson Sink
word: dry sink
word: farmhouse sink
word: heavy sink
word: kitchen sink
word: laundry sink
word: shoot one in the sink
word: sink estate
word: sink function
word: sink hole
word: sink of iniquity
word: sink tidy
word: sink trap
word: time sink
word: utility sink
Related terms: countersink
everything but the kitchen sink