Meaning of sink | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A basin used for holding water for washing.
2. A surname.
3. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
4. A sinkhole.
5. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
6. A heat sink.
7. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
8. A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
9. Descending motion; descent.
   uncountable
10. The motion of a sinker pitch.
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11. An object or callback that captures events.
12. A destination vertex in a transportation network.
13. A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
14. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
15. A depression in a stereotype plate.
16. A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
17. An excavation smaller than a shaft.
18. One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.

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Examples

“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.”

“An excessive sink rate at touchdown can cause the aircraft's landing gear to collapse.”

“Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.”

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