sink

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. In the causative sense, it replaced 🇨🇬 from.

Verb

 * 1)   To move or be moved into something.
 * 2)  To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
 * 3)  To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
 * 4)  To push (something) into something.
 * 5)  To make by digging or delving.
 * to sink a well in the ground
 * 1)  To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
 * 2)  To diminish or be diminished.
 * 3)  To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
 * 4)  To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
 * 5)  To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
 * 6)  To conceal and appropriate.
 * 7)  To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
 * 8) * 1849 December 15,, Sermon 14, “The Principle of Spiritual Harvest”:
 * I say not always dishonorable qualifications, but a certain flexibility of disposition; a certain courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths, and adapt ourselves to the prejudices of the minds of others
 * 1)  To drink (especially something alcoholic).
 * 2)  To pay absolutely.
 * 3)  To reduce or extinguish by payment.
 * 4)  To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
 * 5)  To die.
 * 6)  To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
 * 1)  To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
 * 2)  To conceal and appropriate.
 * 3)  To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
 * 4) * 1849 December 15,, Sermon 14, “The Principle of Spiritual Harvest”:
 * I say not always dishonorable qualifications, but a certain flexibility of disposition; a certain courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths, and adapt ourselves to the prejudices of the minds of others
 * 1)  To drink (especially something alcoholic).
 * 2)  To pay absolutely.
 * 3)  To reduce or extinguish by payment.
 * 4)  To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
 * 5)  To die.
 * 6)  To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
 * 1)  To reduce or extinguish by payment.
 * 2)  To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
 * 3)  To die.
 * 4)  To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
 * 1)  To die.
 * 2)  To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
 * 1)  To die.
 * 2)  To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
 * 1)  To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
 * 1)  To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
 * 1)  To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

Usage notes

 * Use of sunk for the simple past instead of sank is not uncommon, but may be considered non-standard. See also the obsolete.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: غَطَسَ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: afundu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: батыу
 * Basque: hondoratu
 * Belarusian: тану́ць, апуска́цца
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: lunod
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏃᏴᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Eastern Min: 沉
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: alfundiĝi, droni, sinki
 * Estonian: vajuma
 * Faroese: søkka
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, perfundir, ,
 * Georgian: ჩაძირვა, ძირვა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: βυθίζομαι
 * Higaonon: nalumos
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: upota, vajota
 * Italian:, , , andare a fondo
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: keleleb, kèrem
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian: sleikt
 * Latin: mergor
 * Latvian: slīkt
 * Lithuanian: grim̃zti
 * Maori: pōharu, pōharuharu , pōwharu , pōwharuwharu , tāpokopoko , torongi , totohu , tapoko
 * Middle English: avalen, valen
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: ādrincan
 * Old Javanese: karĕm
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sìolaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian: тонути
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: -zamisha
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lumubog
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: опуска́тися, зни́жуватися, па́дати, впада́ти, запада́ти, of the sun заходи́ти, тону́ти, зану́рюватися, іти́ на дно, потупа́ти, of a foundation осіда́ти, into the mind запа́сти в па́м’ять, врізатися в па́м’ять, weaken or die слабша́ти ги́нути, into poverty зубожі́ти, have one's spirits sink занепа́сти ду́хом.
 * Uzbek:
 * Welsh:


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: батыу
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: alfundigi
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, , enfundir, sufondar
 * Georgian: ჩაძირვა, დაძირვა, ძირვა
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: whakatotohu
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sìolaidh
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: топи́ти, a well копа́ти колодя́зь, ри́ти колодя́зь, capital невда́ло покла́сти


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: батырыу
 * Belarusian: тапіць, патапіць, утапіць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sænke
 * Dutch: tot zinken brengen
 * Esperanto: alfundigi
 * Estonian: uputama
 * Faroese: søkkja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: დაძირვა, ჩაძირვა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌵𐌰𐌽
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: βυθίζω
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: upottaa, vajottaa
 * Italian:, , colare a picco
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:, , , , , , សំរុត
 * Korean:
 * Latin: mergo, mersum
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maori: whakatotohu
 * Norwegian: senke
 * Bokmål: senke
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: затопи́ти
 * Vietnamese:


 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ukrainian: всади́ти, вколо́ти

Noun



 * 1)  A basin used for holding water for washing.
 * 2) * 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, , Season 3, Episode 1:
 * 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.
 * 1) A drain for carrying off wastewater.
 * 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)  A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
 * 7)  Descending motion; descent.
 * 8)  The motion of a sinker pitch.
 * 9)  An object or callback that captures events.
 * 10)  A destination vertex in a transportation network.
 * 11)  A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
 * 12) An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
 * 13) A depression in a stereotype plate.
 * 14)  A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
 * 15)  An excavation smaller than a shaft.
 * 16)  One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
 * 1)  A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
 * 2)  An excavation smaller than a shaft.
 * 3)  One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also washbasin for washing fixtures without water supply

Derived terms

 * vessel sink

Translations

 * Albanian: lavaman,
 * Arabic:, مَغْسَلَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: حوض
 * Hijazi Arabic: حوض, مِغْسَلَة
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܩܢܵܐ
 * Basque: (kitchen sink) harraska
 * Belarusian: ра́кавіна, умыва́льнік
 * Bulgarian: ми́вка,
 * Catalan:, , ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 盥洗盆 , 洗手盆
 * Czech:, umyvadlo
 * Danish:, (kitchen sink) ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: lavujo
 * Estonian: valamu, kraanikauss
 * Faroese: vask
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: პირსაბანი
 * German:, , ;  ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: νιπτήρ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, キッチンシンク, , ,
 * Kazakh: шұңғылша, қол жуғыш
 * Khmer: អាងទឹក, អាងលាងសំអាត
 * Korean: 싱크,, 개수대, 세면기(洗面器)
 * Kyrgyz:, , жуунгуч
 * Lao:
 * Latin: trulleum, pollubrum, fusorium
 * Latvian: izlietne
 * Lithuanian: praustuvas, kriauklė, plautuvė
 * Macedonian: мијалник, лавабо́
 * Malay: sinki
 * Maori: peihana, puoto
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠤᠬᠢᠶᠠᠭᠤᠷ
 * Navajo: łeetsʼaaʼ biiʼ tánágisí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: vask, vaskekum
 * Nynorsk:, vaskekum
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: acuadera, lavandinu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: су̀допера, лава̀бо̄
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: drez
 * Slovene: umivalnik
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, , , , ,
 * Tajik: дастшӯяк
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:, อ่างล้างหน้า
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ми́йка, кухо́нна ми́йка, ра́ковина для сті́кання во́ди, ра́ковина, умива́льник
 * Urdu: چِلَمْچی
 * Uzbek:, rakovina
 * Venetian:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: oanrjocht
 * Yiddish: וואַשבעקן


 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: مزراب
 * Bulgarian: отто́чна тръба́
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:, , сто́чная труба́
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: злив


 * Finnish: lämpönielu
 * Greek:
 * Portuguese: dissipador de calor
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: värmesänka


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: sumidouro
 * Russian: коне́чная верши́на

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) zinc

Etymology
, probably via.

Noun

 * 1) zinc

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) ham

Etymology
From.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) zinc chemical element

Etymology
Inherited from.

Numeral

 * 1)  five

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) zinc (chemical element, symbol Zn)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) zinc (chemical element, symbol Zn)