(n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.
(v. i.) To wink; to blink.
(a.) Half-shut; winking.
(v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
(v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
(v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out.
(n.) A stab.
(v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
(v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.
(v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
(v. t.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.
(a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
(2) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(3) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(4) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
(5) The animals were exposed for 120 h to continuous pink noise at the intensities 80, 90 and 100 dB SPL.
(6) In this paper, previous literature on the subject is surveyed, and an experimental approach under standardized conditions to allow analysis of possible causes and biological mechanisms of the pink-teeth phenomenon in rats is described.
(7) Pink Monday said it was precisely the reaction it had hoped for.
(8) Positive specimens produce a faint pink deposit which is better visualised by silver enhancement which gives an intense black colour.
(9) The reason fashion magazines have been excited over the M&S coat is because various high-end designers all made pink coats this season.
(10) On other days, she dresses head to toe in bright pink.
(11) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(12) Results obtained with a high pass filtered pink noise at a 106, 109 and 113 dB SPL on 37-40 week foetuses are given to illustrate this dependency.
(13) Approximately 30% of the C. neoformans strains produced large amounts of the pink (purple after 6 days) pigment in the absence of light whereas 70% of the Cryptococcus neoformans strains, as well as C. laurentii, C. albidus, C. diffluens, and C. albicans also produced the pink pigment with light being required for significant early production (2--6 days).
(14) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
(15) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
(16) On the opposite side there are obviously a few people who are full of a lot of hatred.” Jake Johnstone, who was was wearing the pink triangle of the 1980s Act Up movement, said: “Obviously we had the Paris attacks and everyone was shocked by it, but because Orlando was an attack on the LGBT community it feels very personal and a lot of people feel deeply affected by it.
(17) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
(18) They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman’s “pink bus” but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates’ returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, “used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies – at a cost of £35,000”.
(19) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(20) A group of young men and women calling themselves the Salopards (Bastards) and wearing pink dungarees "to show you can be against gay marriage without being homophobic", was also there to "defend the family".
Sink
Definition:
(v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
(v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
(v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
(v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
(v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
(v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
(v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
(v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
(v. t.) To conseal and appropriate.
(v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
(v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
(n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
(n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
(n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
(2) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(3) These recent Times scoops about Obama's policies do not sink to the level of the Judy Miller debacle.
(4) Comparatively the virus strength sinks more slowly at 4 degrees C in the more mineralized river water (figure 2).
(5) Milk poured from higher (5-10cm above the cup) will sink beneath the surface.
(6) The chylomicrons in particular, become separated from the VLDL, the sinking pre-beta-lipoprotein or Lp (a) was identifiable and the type III hyperlipemia was easily diagnosed.
(7) It’s another squalid reminder of Conservative priorities, and how low they are prepared to sink in pursuit of them.
(8) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
(9) In women, but not in men, there was a rise in the risk of falling from 45 years, peaking in the 55-59 year age group, and sinking to a nadir at ages 70-74.
(10) 81% of all sinks were contaminated with P. aeruginosa strains.
(11) During the early part of the experiments, when the sink condition was maintained, FAH was the most effective for hairless mouse skin, whereas Azone showed the highest effect in the rat skin.
(12) Opening of water taps generated aerosols containing P. aeruginosa sink organisms which contaminated hands during hand washing.
(13) Rats were classified into sinking and non-sinking groups, according to the appearance of sinking behavior over a 2 hr test.
(14) The laminar pattern of current sources and sinks coincident with this component was more complicated after bicuculline, reflecting the summation of current flows associated with disinhibited lamina 4 activity.
(15) But the reality of it began to sink in, and when I met with Kathy Kennedy [the Lucasfilm president and Star Wars executive producer], my gut said this is not something to reject.
(16) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(17) Waste eluates are collected and drained to the sink by a Teflon tray positioned between the columns and counting tubes, also held by the turntable.
(18) But it has been overwhelmed by the story of the sinking of the Sewol.
(19) Since biogenic particulate products, especially fecal pellets, are known to sink rapidly and intact to the ocean bottom, the transport of PCB's by such sinking particles could be an important mechanism which contributes to the penetration of PCB's into the deep sea.
(20) The receptor component had a current source in the outer segments (90% depth) and a sink in the ONL (70% depth).