What's the difference between sing and sink?

Sing


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
  • (v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
  • (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
  • (v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
  • (v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain.
  • (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
  • (v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
  • (v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
  • (v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
  • (2) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
  • (3) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
  • (4) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
  • (5) All together now, sing “One Million More Migrants are On Their Way”.
  • (6) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
  • (7) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
  • (8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (9) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
  • (10) Few have joined loyal supporters such as Labour peer Lord Charles Allen, of Global Radio, and former minister Lord Myners in singing the party’s praises.
  • (11) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
  • (12) "There's this moment when they're all around me singing 'I love you' at me and I was sitting there in rehearsal thinking, 'I hope this doesn't come across as some giant ego trip.'"
  • (13) In the control group sings of irreversible damage appeared in 90 min, in the presence of phosphocreatine, 10 mM, these changes became apparent in 120 min.
  • (14) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
  • (15) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.
  • (16) Still, he has been taking singing lessons and he acknowledges that the end result "doesn't sound bad".
  • (17) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
  • (18) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
  • (19) Sometimes she sings them songs the girls have learned at school and then sung to her down the phone.
  • (20) For a few short months, the long-divided radio industry appeared to be singing from the same song sheet with the BBC and commercial radio backing the creation of a new cross-industry body, the Radio Council.

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).