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Definizione monolingua


sink


Verb

sink (third-person singular simple present sinks, present participle sinking, simple past sank, past participle sunk or sunken)


  1. (intransitive) to descend into a liquid or other substance or material
  2. (transitive) to submerge (something) in a liquid or other substance or material
  3. (transitive) to cause (a ship, etc) to sink
  4. (transitive) to push (something) into something
    • The dog sank its teeth into the delivery mans leg.
    • The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.
  5. (intransitive) Describing metaphorically the experience of apprehension, disappointment, or momentary depression as felt via an internal human organ (usually the heart)
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
      I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in black.
    • 1915 Burgess, Thronton W., The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston; ch. XIX:
      Peters heart sank. ""Dont you think it is dreadful?"" he asked.
  6. (snooker, pool, billiards, golf) to pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole
    • 2008, Edward Keating , The Joy of Ex: A Novel
      She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
      “Have you been practising?” I ask my sister.
      “Some,” she says, “play again?”
      “One more.”
      My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.
Noun

Wikipedia


  1. A basin used for holding water for washing
    • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, Guardian:
      The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping noise ""like a crisp packet being popped"" coming from the kitchen followed by a ""screeching"" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.
  2. A sinkhole
  3. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
  4. A heat sink
  5. A place that absorbs resources or energy
  6. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch
    Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.
  7. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
  8. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network

Definizione dizionario sink


affondare
  cause (ship, etc) to sink
  descend into liquid, etc
  To fall or drop to a lower place or level.
  Mandare un'imbarcazione a picco, a fondo.
  To cause a boat to go down in the water.
immergere
  submerge
sprofondare
  descend into liquid, etc
andare a fondo
abbassarsi
  Diventare minore.
bacino
  Una scodella, catino, usato per lavarsi, che di solito é fissato al muro.
  A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
dolina
  A natural depression or hole in the surface topography caused by the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks.
lavabo
  Una scodella, catino, usato per lavarsi, che di solito é fissato al muro.
  A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
sink
  A device or part of a device that receives something from another device.
abbassare
acquaio
affogare
bagno
cadere
calare
catinella
cedere
digradare
dimenticare
far calare
inabissare
incontrare
lavandino
lavello
perforare
pozzo
ribassare
scendere
sommergere
toccare
tuffare
tuffarsi

Altri significati:
  heat sink
  (transitive) to submerge (something) in a liquid or other substance or material
  go down (sun)
  basin
  A sinkhole
  A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
  (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
  (transitive) to push (something) into something
  A heat sink
  (intransitive) to descend into a liquid or other substance or material
  sink (in men’s estimation)
  (transitive) to cause (a ship, etc) to sink
  push (something) into
  (snooker, pool, billiards, golf) to pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole
  A basin used for holding water for washing
  A place that absorbs resources or energy
  (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch
  (to) sink
  (intransitive) Describing metaphorically the experience of apprehension, disappointment, or momentary depression as felt via an internal human organ (usually the heart)

Traduzione sink


affondare ,immergere ,sprofondare ,andare a fondo ,abbassarsi

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