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Sink

Verb

Definiciones

1.VerbTo move or be moved into something. To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
"A stone sinks in water.  The sun gradually sank in the west.; An iceberg sank the Titanic.  British battleships sank the Bismarck.; The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.  The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.; to sink a well in the ground"
2.VerbTo descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
"A stone sinks in water.  The sun gradually sank in the west."
3.VerbTo (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
"An iceberg sank the Titanic.  British battleships sank the Bismarck."
4.VerbTo push (something) into something.
"The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.  The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg."
5.VerbTo make by digging or delving.
"to sink a well in the ground"
6.VerbTo pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
7.VerbTo diminish or be diminished. To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression. To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
"to sink one's reputation"
8.VerbTo experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
9.VerbTo cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
"to sink one's reputation"
10.VerbTo demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
11.VerbTo conceal and appropriate.
12.VerbTo keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
13.VerbTo drink (especially something alcoholic).
14.VerbTo pay absolutely.
"I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project."
15.VerbTo reduce or extinguish by payment.
"to sink the national debt"
16.VerbTo be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
17.VerbTo die.
18.VerbTo decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
19.NounA basin used for holding water for washing.
20.NounA drain for carrying off wastewater.
21.NounA sinkhole.
22.NounA depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
23.NounA heat sink.
24.NounA place that absorbs resources or energy.
25.NounA habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
26.NounDescending motion; descent.
"An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.; Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink."
27.NounThe motion of a sinker pitch.
"Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink."
28.NounAn object or callback that captures events.
29.NounA destination vertex in a transportation network.
30.NounA node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
31.NounAn abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
32.NounA depression in a stereotype plate.
33.NounA stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
34.NounAn excavation smaller than a shaft.
35.NounOne or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
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