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sink
noun
countable
B1
US /ˈsɪŋk/
A basin used for holding water for washing.
A drain for carrying off wastewater.
A sinkhole.
A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
A heat sink.
A place that absorbs resources or energy.
A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
Descending motion; descent.
Descending motion; descent.
The motion of a sinker pitch.
An object or callback that captures events.
A destination vertex in a transportation network.
A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
A depression in a stereotype plate.
A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
An excavation smaller than a shaft.
One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
Forms
plural
sinks
Example sentences
217 results
When I tried to set the glass down in the sink my hand slipped and it shattered to pieces.
Tatoeba
Would you put the dishes in the sink?
Tatoeba
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sink
To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
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