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sink

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
sɪŋk

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.
  10. The motion of a sinker pitch.
  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.

Conjugation

Browse the table or drill it — all tenses, moods, and persons of sink.

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Equivalents

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Беларускаятануць
Češtinadřezumyvadlo
Cymraegsincsuddo
Gaeilgedoirteal
Gàidhligsìolaidh
עבריתכיור
हिन्दीचिलमची
Bahasa Indonesiawastafel
Íslenskasökkvavaskur
ქართულიპირსაბანი
Latviešuslīkt
Македонскилавабомијалник
Slovenčinadrez
Kiswahilisinki

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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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