sink

Noun

sink (plural sinks)

1. A basin used for holding water for washing.
2. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.

   Jones" has a two-seamer with heavy sink.

Synonyms:

• (descend into a liquid, etc): descend, go down
• (submerge): dip, dunk, submerge
• (cause (ship, etc) to sink):
• (push (something) into):

4 letters in word "sink": I K N S.

Anagrams of sink:

• inks

• kins

• skin

Words found within sink:

in ink ins is kin nis si sin ski

• Definitions:
• fall or drop to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" cause to sink; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor" pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana" go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe dip: appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line" slump: fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system; "the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide" sinkhole: a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof slump: fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" cesspool: a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it bury: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap"
• In plumbing, a sink or basin is a bowl-shaped fixture that is used for washing hands or small objects such as food, dishes, nylons, socks or underwear. In American plumbing parlance, a bathroom sink is known as a lavatory.
• Sink is a Foetus Inc compilation album first released in 1989 on Self Immolation/Some Bizzare and Wax Trax! Records. It compiles rare and unreleased songs from various Foetus projects from 1981–1989. Many of the rare tracks on the album have been edited shorter than their original length.
• In computing, a sink or event sink is a class or function designed to receive incoming events from another object or function. This is commonly implemented in C++ as callbacks. ...
• Sink is an album released by Floater in September 1994. Lyrics of isolation and insanity are set against dark and moody aural landscapes, ambient sampling montages, and savage instrumental punch. Sink received a preliminary Grammy nomination in the category of Best Rock Album.
• A place in the environment where a compound or material collects. See reservoir.
• means any process, activity or mechanism which removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.
• 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.
• (1) To go to the bottom of the water. (2) To cause an object to go to the bottom of the water.
• A route or reservoir by which a measurable quantity may exit a system, such as by accumulation (in a reservoir) or chemical conversion. Compare source.
• A sinkhole; or, an area with a demand for metabolic substances. For example, growing meristems are sinks for energy compounds from photosynthesis, mitochondria are oxygen sinks, and tropical rainforests or deep oceans may act as carbon sinks, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
• A reservoir that uptakes a pollutant from another part of its cycle. Soil and trees tend to act as natural sinks for carbon. (EPA)
• A place where a surface water course disappears underground. Also known as 'streamsink'.
• A locally asymptotically stable fixed point.
• To push a player under the water during a tackle.
• refers to a region that takes up a greater amount of some substance than it releases. For instance, some ocean areas are carbon sinks, because they absorb more carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere than they release back to the atmosphere (compare source).
• Undesired depressions in the surface of a part that are caused by the shrinking of resin as it solidifies. Sink is most common in thick sections of a part. More Info
• A sink is a flow disappearing in a point. The flow streams towards the center. The farther away from the sink, the slower the speed of the flow becomes. You can also look at it as the opposite of a source.
• A place where water stops flowing on the surface and instead begins to flow underground.
• The point on the transmission system where electric energy is withdrawn.
• a complex fold in which a corner of the model is turned inside out to become a pocket. Sinks may be either open or closed. An open sink is one in which the layers of the paper can be opened to allow the sink to be achieved in a structured manner. ...
• refers to a location where chemicals or nutrients eventually end up.
• The sanitary ware in a kitchen fed by the mains cold supply direct. Back to the top
• in the context of phloem function, any plant part that produces less sugar that it requires for its own use and which, therefore, must import sugar from other plant parts via the phloem; roots are always net sinks, since they never produce any new sugar (they may be temporary sources when they ...
• Device such as a load that consumes power or conducts away heat.
• The use of soil or water to accept heat that is rejected from the building (to provide cooling).
• the amount an element is lowered, usually from the top of type page, but sometimes from the top of text page or trim, depending on customer definition. Sink will be specified as visual or base to base space.
• A destination of energy, materials, or organisms outside of the system.
• Similar to a playa with the exception that it rapidly infiltrates any collected water.
• A data resource that receives the data copied by a data transfer mechanism from a source.

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