(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).
Sinker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sinks.
(n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.
(n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simple suturing techniques are also described, including the practicability of using padded buttons plus lead fishing sinkers to adjust the tension and secure these sutures on the surface of the neck.
(2) The investigation consisted of four studies: (1) visual observation of the dissolution performance using 12 different sinkers; (2) the effect on drug release from nine classified sinkers on two different capsule formulations; (3) side-by-side comparison between the selected optimal longitudinal U clip and the wire helix lateral type sinkers; and (4) hydrodynamic effects caused by the use of the longitudinal U clip and the wire helix lateral type sinkers in the absence of capsule shells.
(3) The mean morbidity level of professional diseases in sinkers was 12.0 per 1000 (vibration disease--4.9, hypoacusis--6.4).
(4) Longitudinal sinkers contact the dosage forms on the long axis.
(5) An 11-year-old girl developed a corneal ulcer five days after sustaining a corneal abrasion from a fishline sinker.
(6) And if it’s a choice then it’s a lot easier to demonize it.” Recalling how believing that he was a sinner made him depressed, Nesbitt said he “was buying all that hook, line and sinker and of course it makes you feel like you’re a failure.
(7) Updated at 10.27pm BST 10.12pm BST First pitch Adam Wainwright faces Starling Marte, starts him off with a sinker, finishes him with a curveball - strike three.
(8) During 1963-1990 professional disease were registered in 336 sinkers (vibration disease--42.6%; hypoacusis--35.1%; silicosis and dust-induced bronchitis--11.3 and 7.4% respectively).
(9) Stone net sinkers, which is the evidence of the use of fish nets, were also found.
(10) He said the government’s threat to drop its own legislation was a negotiating tactic which the Greens “fell for hook, line and sinker”.
(11) His article is so far off the mark, and bears so little relation to the facts, that he appears to have swallowed Labour spin hook, line and sinker.
(12) Various new sinker designs were fabricated, tested, and classified.
(13) 4.09am BST Tigers 5 - Red Sox 1, bottom of 8th Middlebrooks pulls a sinker ball into the corner in left field and has himself a one-out double.
(14) In the swimming test (5 gr sinkers, 36 degrees C water) the median swimming time was reduced from greater 120 minutes in the controls to 16 minutes in the bilaterally depressed rats.
(15) Lateral sinkers either wrap around or contact capsule dosage forms in the middle, such as the line where the top and bottom halves of a capsule shell come together.
(16) Data are presented on the formation of neuropsychic disorders in mine shaft sinkers and drill operators at different stages of vibration disease.
(17) The objective of this investigation was to determine if other sinker shapes will influence the rate, extent, or variability of dissolution.
(18) Cardinals 3 - Dodgers 2, bottom of 4th Ellis lines a sinker for a single, right up the middle and Ethier scores to cut the Dodgers deficit to a single run!
(19) Four classes of sinker shapes were defined: longitudinal, lateral, screen enclosures, and internal weights.
(20) We concluded that capsules sunk with either of the two longitudinal sinkers, the U clip or the paper clip, have faster, more complete dissolution and less variable results than did lateral type sinkers.