sink

Meaning

Verb

1. To move or be moved into something.
2. To move or be moved into something.
3. To move or be moved into something.
4. To move or be moved into something.
5. To move or be moved into something.
6. To diminish or be diminished.
7. To diminish or be diminished.
8. To diminish or be diminished.
9. (slang) To conceal and appropriate.
10. (slang) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
11. (slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
12. (slang) To pay absolutely.
13. (slang) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
14. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
15. To die.
16. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

Noun

1. A basin used for holding water for washing.
2. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
3. A sinkhole.
4. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
5. A heat sink.
6. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
7. A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
8. Descending motion; descent.
9. Descending motion; descent.
10. An object or callback that captures events.
11. A destination vertex in a transportation network.
12. A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
13. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
14. A depression in a stereotype plate.
15. A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
16. An excavation smaller than a shaft.
17. One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɪŋk/

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.