sink
singk
- n plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- n (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide - n a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- n a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- v fall or descend to a lower place or level
- v cause to sink
- v pass into a specified state or condition
- v go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
- v descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- v appear to move downward
- v fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- v fall or sink heavily
- v embed deeply
- Weighing in at a chunky 30 pounds, JVC's hulk of a videocassette recorder was one of the first to work with VHS tapes, and helped sink the rival Betamax format.
- Physiotherapist Cadan belongs to the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink school of thought.
- An environmental catastrophe occurs as a tanker sinks off the coast of Spain.