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Definition: Sink |
SinkNoun1. Plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe. 2. A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it. Verb1. Fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees.". 2. Cause to sink; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbour". 3. Pass into a specified state or condition: "He sank into Nirvana". 4. Go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned". 5. Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair". 6. Appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line". 7. Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off". 8. Fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank". 9. Embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sink" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Sink \Sink\ (s[i^][ng]k), noun. The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River. [Western United States]. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. In the mathematical representation of fluid flow, a hypothetical point or place at which the fluid is absorbed.2. A heat sink. See source. (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | Any region in the tissues of an organism with a high requirement for nutrients or other substances, which therefore move preferentially toward it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | A component or components of the climate system where a greenhouse gas or a precursor of a greenhouse gas is stored. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | In communication practice, a -- is a device which drains off energy from a system. . . /p. 13. . Source: European Union. (references) |
| A region into which charge carriers, particularly excess minority carriers, may pass without building up a space charge. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Environment | Place in the environment where a compound or material collects. (references) |
| Any process, activity or mechanism which removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | The deep notch cut into the base of a tree(following laying in)to govern the direction in which it is to fall and also to prevent the butt splitting. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A ship is said to founder when she sinks at sea, more or less on an even keel, through the flooding of the hull, e. g. as a result of heavy weather damage, striking a rock etc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | Circular depression in a karst area with a subterranean drainage whose size measured in metres or tens of metres; commonly funnel-shaped. Source: European Union. (references) |
Math | A vertex of a directed graph with no outgoing edges. More formally, a vertex with with out-degree 0. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A place into which a liquid stream disappears(the outlet point of a sink flow). Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. To excavate or drive a shaft or slope. b. The depression in a shaft made by a center blast c. A water lodgment. See also:sump d. To put standpipe or casing down through overburden by rotation or by driving, chopping, or washing-- these methods being employed singly or in combination e. To drill or put down a borehole f. A depression in the land surface, esp. one having a central playa or saline lake with no outlet; a hollow in a limestone region communicating with a cavern or subterranean passage so that waters running into it disappear. Also called sinkhole; swallow hole. (references) |
Science | The process of providing storage for a substance. For example, plants--through photosynthesis--transform carbon dioxide in the air into organic matter, which either stays in the plants or is stored in the soils. The plants are a sink for carbon dioxide. (references) |
Weather | A reservoir that uptakes a chemical element or compound from another part of its cycle. For example, soil and trees tend to act as natural sinks for carbon. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sink and source are respectively the termination or supply of current flow; the divergence of the current density is negative and positive, respectively. More generally this can be applied for other vector fields than current density; for example, mass is a sink of gravitational field strength.A TTL (Transistor Transistor Logic) circuit will "sink" current when the circuit is a logic "0" (grd) and "source" current at a logic "1" (+5vdc).
[These terms are far more generally used than just in digital electronics. Indeed, they antedate digital electronics. They are used in thermodynamics, which originated in the 19th century, and also for other physical systems such as rivers. Would some physicist complete this article?]
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sink."
Synonyms: SinkSynonyms: cesspit (n), cesspool (n), sump (n), bury (v), dip (v), drop (v), drop down (v), fall off (v), go down (v), go under (v), lapse (v), pass (v), settle (v), slide down (v), slump (v), subside (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: float (v), rise (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Go downhill, go to rack and ruin; (destruction), go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears. |
Concealment | Keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore. |
Dejection | Verb: be dejected; Adjective: grieve; mourn; (lament); take on, give way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink. |
Depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits. | |
Depression | Verb: depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate. |
Descent | Verb: descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump. |
Destruction | Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize. |
Failure | Limp, halt, hobble, fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on. |
Fatigue | Verb: be fatigued; Adjective: yawn; (get sleepy); droop, sink, flag; lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb. |
Neglect | Slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to; not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet. |
Pain | Grieve; mourn; (lament); yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way; despair; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart; (inflict pain). |
Plunge | Submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom. |
Success | Settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate; (subject); reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon. |
Uncleanness | Dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Whatever the hell that thing is, sink it (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) But this ship can't sink! (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) He's a real gentleman, I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it. (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) I'm putting this on him and we're going to the sink! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) We're gonna sink! (The Great Race; writing credit: Arthur A. Ross) | |
Lyrics | Then you’d better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) That religion you could sink in neat (Church of the Poison Mind; performing artist: Culture Club) They mix 'em up right in the kitchen sink (All She Wants to Do Is Dance; performing artist: Don Henley) Make me blind when your eyes close sink when you get close tie me to the bedpost (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6) You shudder and shake, sink your teeth in my skin (Affair Of The Heart; performing artist: Rick Springfield) | |
Tongue Twisters | Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised. "Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Think or Sink (1967) Sink Pink (1965) The Gink at the Sink (1952) Sunk in the Sink (1949) Swim or Sink (1932) | |
Song Titles | Sink The Bismarck (performing artist: Johnny Horton) | |
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 | Figure 8. Skead sounder invented by Francis Skead during telegraph survey operations between Malta and Crete off HMS TARTARUS in 1857. This device was designed to mitigate problems with the Brooke and Bonnici sounders. The first would sink in soft sediment without detaching the weight while the second rarely returned samples. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Bear Trap and Kitchen Sink Rapids. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Natual sink hole in Roswell Field Office, NM, where water has filled the opening. Credit: H. Parman. |  | Slides down the building ways, during launching ceremonies at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 14 December 1944. Note banner spread across the front of Boxer's flight deck, proclaiming: "Here We Go to Tokyo! Newport News Shipyard Workers' War Bonds Help to Sink the Rising Sun". Credit: NAVY. |
 | Engraved reproduction of a wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1900. This craft, armed as a spar-torpedo launch, was used by Lieutenant William B. Cushing to sink the Confederate ironclad Albemarle on the night of 27-28 October 1864. Credit: NAVY. |  | Orders -- sink the life boats. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sure! He's great big -- He's got de ava de poiz -- He can't sink : Gee! He's a regular floater. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Their sidewalk sink. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Child of migrant citrus worker who lives in a rundown apartment house. The sink at the head of the stairs is the only running water in the house. Winterhaven, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The kitchen sink in a New Haven, Illinois, home after the flood. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Boy using sink" by Dino Gracio Commentary: "Clicked 32 years ago, in little brazilian city." | "Under the sink." by Nicolas Hansen Commentary: "This photo is taken under the sink." |
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 | Dishes banging in a sink. | | Water draining in a sink. |
| Water splashing in the sink while it is draining. | ||
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Albius Tibullus | May I look on you when my last hour comes; may I hold you, as I sink, with my failing hand. |
Benjamin Franklin | Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. |
Confucius | We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. |
Grover Cleveland | The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. |
John Adams | The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. |
John Bunyan | One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | A day may sink or save a realm. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Emma was almost ready to sink under the agitation of this moment |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The deeper we sink, the more mysterious are the workers |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Stephen saw it sink as he had seen many another, feeling its heaviness depress his heart |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | On the sink shelf lay an old beer opener and a broken fork with its wooden handle gone |
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Health | This type of stroke is often called "beauty-parlor syndrome," which refers to the practice of extending the neck backwards over a sink for hair-washing in beauty parlors. (references) | |
You may find droppings in places where you store your food or your pet/animal food, such as in cupboards and drawers or in bins. Because mice like to run in places that offer them some protection from predators, you may find droppings in cupboards or under the sink, along walls, or on top of wall studs or beams. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BODY-:SNATCHER:, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena. "One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall. "While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink! "Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade." Bettel K. Jhones |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | If I do not sink under the weight of this deep conviction it is because I find some support in a consciousness of the purposes and a confidence in the principles which I bring with me into this arduous service. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | But nations sink when they see that interest only through a narrow glass. |
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| "Sink" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.19% of the time. "Sink" is used about 1,646 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 58.19% | 958 | 7,596 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 34.04% | 560 | 11,180 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.77% | 128 | 28,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,646 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sink" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sink | Last name | 2,000 | 5,852 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "sink": cause to sink ♦ heat sink ♦ kitchen sink ♦ ready to sink ♦ sink a shaft ♦ sink a ship ♦ sink a well ♦ sink away ♦ sink back ♦ sink down ♦ sink hole ♦ sink in ♦ sink in the mind ♦ sink into ♦ sink into a chair ♦ sink into a deep sleep ♦ sink into oblivion ♦ sink into the grave ♦ sink lake ♦ sink mark ♦ sink money ♦ sink of iniquity ♦ sink or swim ♦ sink or swim! ♦ sink sternmost ♦ sink the shop ♦ sink to the bottom ♦ sink under ♦ sink unit ♦ sink well ♦ synchronization sink ♦ time sink ♦ valley sink. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sink": sink-bath, sink-edge, sink-hole, sink-into, sink-or-swim, sink-stone, sink-until. | |
Ending with "sink": kitchen-sink. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
kitchen sink | 1,661 | vessel sink | 120 |
sink | 1,226 | laundry sink | 110 |
bathroom sink | 989 | kohler kitchen sink | 101 |
stainless steel sink | 354 | american standard sink | 94 |
pedestal sink | 351 | farmhouse sink | 87 |
kohler sink | 350 | lavatory sink | 79 |
sink hole | 256 | undermount kitchen sink | 78 |
heat sink | 226 | corner sink | 76 |
franke sink | 213 | portable sink | 74 |
elkay sink | 201 | sink skirt | 71 |
blanco sink | 189 | farm sink | 70 |
in sink erator | 183 | bath sink | 64 |
kindred sink | 172 | discount kitchen sink | 64 |
bar sink | 169 | ceramic sink | 63 |
copper sink | 158 | stainless sink | 60 |
utility sink | 158 | cast iron sink | 51 |
glass sink | 133 | dry sink | 50 |
stainless steel kitchen sink | 131 | granite sink | 49 |
undermount sink | 124 | vanity sink | 49 |
outdoor sink | 123 | bathroom vanity and sink | 47 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sink"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aanboor (bore, broach, strike, tap). (various references) | |
Albanian | sqoll, shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), shënoj (aim, arrow, book, calendar, catalogue, chalk, charge, commit to paper, denote, earmark, indicate, itemize, jot down, kick, Mark, note, note down, pencil, post, punch, put down, record, remark, score, scribe, set off, tally, tick off, write down), lajtore (lavatory), batak (hole, mire, morass, Slough), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, strike, subside, throw down, tumble), bie në harresë, dobësohem (become weak, decay, dilute, ebb, fail, flag, grow feeble, grow thin, lag, languish, melt, reduce, relax, slip, tone down, wane, weaken, wilt), fsheh (Bury, cache, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, enshroud, Harbor, harbour, hide, hide away, obscure, plant, screen, secrete, stash, veil, withhold, wrap up), fundos (ruin, subside, swamp, weight down), fundosem (founder, submerge, subside), gjiriz (sewer), gropë (cave, cavity, dint, dugout, excavation, hole, hollow, pocket, socket, sump, trough), gropë ujërash të zeza (cesspool), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), bëj kosh, kridhem (dip, dive, plough, plow), zhytem (dip, dive, go under, merge, pore, soak, wallow), lavaman (basin, lavatory, washbasin, wash-hand, washing-stand, washstand), lavapjatë, mbytet (founder, wreck), ngul (bite into, dig, drive, drive in, fix, jab, nail, pin down, plant, plunge, post, press in, put, spit, stick, thrust, wrap up), rrëzohem (cant, descend, fall, pitch, slump, tumble), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, spill, wreck), ul (abase, cast down, cheapen, couch, decline, depress, disparage, drop, embus, furl, humble, incline, keep down, knock off, land, lower, modulate, pull down, reduce, scale down, seat, strike, subdue, subside, throw, turn down, untuck), ulem (alight, bend, bend over, burn down, decrease, deepen, descend, dip, drop, duck, fall, go down, recede, sit, sit down, take a seat), hyj përbrenda. (various references) | |
Arabic | إخترق (break through, cleave, penetrate, perforate, permeate, pierce, transfuse), بؤرة فساد, خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), خسر (down, draw, forfeit, lose, miss out on), الجفنة (basin), إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), إستغرق (absorb, cover, engross, enwrap, occupy, take up, wrap), سجل هدفا (score), إختفى (die out, disappear, lapse, mask, slide, vanish), تدنى (drop, fall), أطاح (boot, bowl over, overthrow, topple, tumble down), أضعف المعنويات (demoralize), أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken), أثر (bias, count, echo, effect, give rise to, hint, impress, influence, lead, mark, odor, odour, operate, prefer, repercussion, scent, soupcon, streak, tag, tinge, tint, touch, trace, trail, trait, vestige, work), دمر سمعته, دخل (come in, enter, extract, get in, go in, income, march, move in, proceeds, revenue, roll, run, step inside, take, taking, turn in, yield), بالوعة (cesspit, cloaca, sump), إستثمر أموالا, غور منخفض (swage), منخفض مسطح (swage), مغسلة (washbasin, washer), هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), نسى (cause to forget, forget, leave, miss, omit, overlook, slur, unlearn), نزل (bring down, camp, cantonal, climb down, come down, decline, depress, descend, drop, get down, get off, glide, go down, hostel, inn, lodge, lodging house, low, lower, miscreant, move, nest, pull down, put down, rascal, reach down, road house, scab, scroll, send, shade, slip down, step down, take down, tavern), وظف مالا, سدد دين (acquit, extinguish, liquidate, return, settle, solve), غوص (bog, dive, diving, draught, pearl fishery, pitch, plunge, submerge, submergence), فور (effervesce, fizz), غور (dent, hollow, sink in, trough, valley), غطس (dip, dive, douse, duck, immerse, immersion, plunge, plunk, submerge), غاص (dive), غرق سفينة (scuttle, shipwreck, sinking), غرق (deluge, dip, drown, drowning, eject, founder, go under, grub, relapse, shipwright, sinking, submergence, swamp, wreck), غرز (batter, bog, drawing pin, impact, implant, jam, lodge, pike, plant, plunge, poke, push, stab, stick, stick in, thrust), حطم (break, break up, crack, dash, disintegrate, extinguish, shatter, shipwreck, shiver, smash, undo, wrack, wreak, wreck), حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape). (various references) | |
Asturian | bañal. (various references) | |
Basque | harraska. (various references) | |
Bemba | sinki. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | isttáátsi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | преливник (lasher, overfall, overflow, sluice, spillway), изплащам (allow, clear, disburse, discharge, expiate, lift, liquidate, meet, pay, pay away, pay out, pay up, repay, settle, take up), малка депресия (sink hole), затъвам (bog, embed oneself, immerse, subside), загубвам престиж, залязвам (descend, go down, set), забивам (drive in, embed, fix, grind into, hammer, jab, knock home, nail, plant, plunge, ram, smash, stick, thrust, thrust in), западам (come down, decay, dwindle, fail, falter, go back, molder, moulder, sag, turn down), амортизирам (amortise, amortize), отпадам (drop out, faint, fall off, languish, sag, wilt), пренебрегвам (disregard, flaunt, flout, ignore, laugh at, lay aside, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, pretermit, put by, shrug off, sit on, slight, wave aside, wave away), отток (flow, sink hole), прикривам (clothe, conceal, cover, disguise, fog, hide, hide away, varnish), потъвам (be engulfed, be lost, go down, go under, lock, plunge, submerge, submerse, subside), потопявам (immerse, inundate, send down, sop, submerge, submerse, swamp, wreck), погасявам (amortise, amortize, clear off, extinguish, pay off, quit, redeem), помийна яма (cesspit, sink hole), падам ниско, изрязвам (cut out, excise, incise, nip off, scissor), изкопавам (dig, disinter, excavate, grub, mine, quarry, turn up, unearth), излагам (bring on reproach, display, enunciate, exhibit, expose, expound, formulate, hang, lay, lay out, propound, put forward, put to, recount, represent to smb., set out, set up, show, show off, state, subject, ventilate), пробивам (bore, break through, broach, hole, jump, nip, perforate, pip, prick, rupture, scuttle, smash in), кухненска мивка (kitchen sink), унижавам (abase, bring down, condescend, debase, degrade, demean, disgrace, gall, humble, humiliate, lour, lower, mortify, prostrate, put down), скривам се (dodge), скривам (cache, conceal, dissemble, enshroud, hide, hoard, hold back, obscure, plant, put back, screen, secrete, stash, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), свършвам (accomplish, adjourn, be through with smth., clear away, end, finish, job, put through, run short, shoot away, turn off, wind up, work out), снишавам се, снижавам се (cower, drop), спускам се (decline, drop, fall, fling, flow, get down, haul down, lour, lower, pitch, shoot, shut down, shut in, step down, swoop, take downhill), спадам (decline, decrease, deflate, dip, ease, ease off, ebb, fall, lower, recede, sag, turn down), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), тресавище (bog, mire, moor, morass, ooze, quag, quagmire, slew, swamp), стихвам (drop, hush, lull, moderate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, slacken, stand still, still, subside), клоака (cloaca, sewer, sink hole, sump), гравирам (chase, cut, enchase, engrave, etch, incise, rout out), гасна (die down, dim, diminish, ebb, fail), вкарвам топка в дупката, влагам пари на вятъра, впадина, осуетявам (abort, baffle, disappoint, foil, frustrate, mock, pour cold water on, scatter, scotch, short circuit, spoil, wash out), оставям настрана (discount, set aside), отточна тръба (waste pipe), хлътвам (fall in, fall over, sag, settle down). (various references) | |
Cebuano | lababo, hugasanan. (various references) | |
Chamorro | labadót. (various references) | |
Chinese | 水槽 . (various references) | |
Cornish | sedhy. (various references) | |
Czech | stoka (ditch, drain, gutter, sewer), zanikat (wear off), umyvadlo (basin, bowl), ubývat (be on the wane, decline, decrease, dwindle, ebb, subside, wane, waste), tonout, propadlištì, potopit (go under, plunge, scupper, scutum), padat (drop, drop to the ground, fall, hang), klesnout (come down, decrease, drop, go under), klesat (be on the decline, decline, descend, drop, fall, fall off, go down, lose height, subside, wane), kanál (canal, channel, ditch, drain, gutter, sluice way, station), dno (bed, bottom, floor), dřez, žumpa (cesspit, cesspool, sump). (various references) | |
Danish | synke (dive), sænke (die, forging die), dykke (dive, plunge). (various references) | |
Dutch | zinken (degenerate, descend, dive, get off, go down), aan de grond raken. (various references) | |
Esperanto | subakviĝi (dive), sinkigi, sinki, boratingi (bore, broach, strike, tap), alfundiĝi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | søkka, vask, kava (dive, snow), fara undir í vatni (dive). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرورفتن (Merge, Stick), نزول کردن (Comedown, Descend), نشست کردن (Settle, Subside), گودافتادن , وان دستشوءی , حفره یاگودال , غرق شدن (Drown, Merge), ته نشینی (Alluvial, Sedimentation, Settlement), ته رفتن , رسوخ (Ooze, Seep, Seepage, Transfusion), دست شوءی اشپزخانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | upota (founder, go down). (various references) | |
French | forer, sombrer, lavabo, enfoncer, doline (collapse sinkhole, sinkhole, solution sinkhole), évier. (various references) | |
Frisian | sinke, goatstien, goatsien. (various references) | |
German | sinken (come down, decline, descend, diminish, droop, drop, fall, founder, go down, sag, slump, subside, wane), Ausguß (outlet), Waschbecken (wash basin, wash-basin, wash-bowl), untergehen (be destroyed, become enslaved, become run-down, come to an end, decline, founder, go down, go under, lose, perish, set, vanish), Spüle (sink unit, slab, slop), Spülbecken, senken (bow, bring down, cut, decrease, descend, dip, lessen, lower, plant, reduce, send down), absacken (drop off, go down, pitch, sag, subside, subsidence). (various references) | |
Greek | βυθίζομαι (cave, go under, slump, submerge, submerse), βυθίζω (dip, founder, immerse, plunge, submerge, submerse), νεροχύτης (slop, weatherboard, weatherboarding). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לטבול (bathe, dip, duck, immerse), בור שופכין (cesspit, cesspool), כיור (basin, pot, washbasin), לנחות (alight, come down, descend, land, touch down), לצנוח (descend, fall, slump), לצלול (dive, plunge), לרדת למטה, טבע (character, element, nature, substance), לטבוע (be drowned, drown), מאורה (cave, den, hole, lair), להשקיע (cause to sink), להשתקע (be drowned, be immersed, become domiciled, settle), להוריד (bring down, decrease, depress, let down, lower, subtract, take down), לכרוע (bow, collapse, crouch, knee), לשקע (drown, put in, set down, submerge), לשקוע (be immersed, bog, decay, decline, degenerate, sag, settle, socket, subside), לטבע (drown, submerge). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mosogató (dishwasher, kitchen sink, scullery), tartály (bin, bunker, container, drum, holder, hopper, receiver, receptacle, reservoir, tank, vat), süllyesztő (drop, trapdoor, trap-door, vampire, vampire-trap), mosdókagyló (basin, lavabo, washbasin, wash-basin, wash-bowl), mélyfúrás (deep boring, well boring), konyhai kiöntő, emésztő gödör, akna (grenade, mine, pit, shaft, shell, tunnel, well). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menenggelamkan, membenamkan (drown, immerse, scuttle, suppress), delep (go bellow surface). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | uasaqvik, niqisilirivvik. (various references) | |
Irish | doirteal. (various references) | |
Italian | lavello, lavandino (washbasin, washbowl), affondare (embed, engulf, founder, go under, stick in), acquaio (slop), abbassarsi (decrease, demean oneself, dip, droop, drop, ebb, fall, lower, neap, prolapse, sag, subside, truckle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 溜め (cesspool, manure sink), 流し元 , 流し台 (washstand), 流しだい (washstand), 流し , 杯洗 (basin for winecups), 失墜 (abasement, fall, forfeit), シルボン紙 (aluminium and sicilicum alloy, lens-cleaning paper, oscilloscope, Singapore, Singapore dollar, singer, singer-songwriter, sinker, sirocco, Sylvia, synchronize, synchrotron, syncretism, syrup, thin, think tank, think tanker, xylophone). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ため (advantage, as a result of, because of, benefit, cesspool, good, in order to, manure sink, sake, to, welfare), ながしもと, ながしだい (washstand), ながし, しっつい (abasement, fall, forfeit), シンク , はいせん (apex of a lung, assignment of vessels, basin for winecups, defeat, discontinued line, losing a war, pulmonary apex, scrapped vessel, wiring). (various references) | |
Korean | 수채 (sunken). (various references) | |
Macedonian | lavabo. (various references) | |
Manx | traih (abate, abatement, decrement, diminish, efflux, flow away, flow out, go down, go off, low water, make, make of ebb, ooze away, subside, subsidence), towl toarrey, slogragh, sinkeil (founder, scupper, sinking), reurey (open up), injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, relegate, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize), glenney (act of vindication, chip, clarification, clarification honey, clarify, clean, cleaner, clearance; glass, discharge, draw, draw as fowl, dust, expurgate, freshen, grub, pay off, purge, purification, purify, rid, satisfaction, scale, scavenge, settlement, try out, try out as metal, weed, wipe), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, slash, slit, snip, truncate), deayrtal, cur fo (let down, scuttle, tackle person about, weather). (various references) | |
Maori | totohu. (various references) | |
Occitan | dornièr, aiguièr. (various references) | |
Papiamen | zink. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inksay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pia (washbasin), ir a pique (founder), afundar-se (slump). (various references) | |
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