(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).
Skink
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.
(v. t.) To draw or serve, as drink.
(v. i.) To serve or draw liquor.
(n.) Drink; also, pottage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructural differences between cardiac and striated muscle fibres observed in the ocellated skink (Chalcides ocellatus ocellatus) indicate that functional differences have a structural correlate in the muscle cells.
(2) Future of Carmichael mine hinges not on skinks or snakes, but its business case Read more The decision to pull out of the A$16bn (£7.8bn) Carmichael mine and port throws the project further into doubt.
(3) The latest update of endangered species showed worrying declines for the okapi, the white-winged flufftail, the red belly toad, Caribbean skinks and the martial eagle.
(4) African host species are all lizards: 4 agamids, 3 skinks, 2 chamaeleonids, one chordyline, and one gerrhosaurine.
(5) Experimental doses of 200 oocysts failed to produce infections in skinks monitored for as long as 7 wk.
(6) The federal environment department lists habitat loss as a key threat to both the yakka skink and the ornamental snake.
(7) In skink brain, one immunoreactive and bioactive GnRH form, which eluted in the same position as His5,Trp7,Tyr8-GnRH on reverse phase HPLC, was identified.
(8) Australasian host species are also all lizards: 6 agamids, 9 skinks, 2 lacertids, one (or two?)
(9) The group argued Hunt has failed to take into account departmental advice on the Carmichael mine’s impact on the ornamental snake and the yakka skink.
(10) Administration of 100 mg sodium fluoroacetate (compound 1080) per kilogram body weight to T. rugosa resulted in a 3.4-fold increase in plasma citrate levels 48 h after dosing while administration of 3 mg sodium fluoroacetate per kilogram body weight to R. norvegicus produced a fivefold increase in plasma citrate levels within 4 h. Administration of 300 mg sodium fluoroacetate per kilogram body weight reduced the oxygen consumption of the skink by between 2.5 and 11% while in the rat, 2 mg sodium fluoroacetate per kilogram body weight reduced oxygen consumption by between 28 and 57%.
(11) Today it’s the yakka skink, tomorrow it will be the koala,” she said in a statement.
(12) Some of these conditions are designed to protect threatened species such as the black-throated finch , red goshawk and yakka skink .
(13) The gastrointestinal tract of the King's skink (Egernia kingii) was examined for the presence of fifteen regulatory peptides, two proteinases and an amine by immunohistochemical methods.
(14) Experimentally infected skinks produced large numbers of oocysts continuously during the 3-4 wk they were monitored after the onset of patency, but exhibited no signs of disease.
(15) The house mouse (laboratory strain), Mus musculus (L.), the cotton mouse, Peromyscus gossypinus (LeConte), the broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps (Schneider), and the guinea pig, Cavia porcellus (L.), were successively infested five times with larvae of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say.
(16) Coalition will take six to eight weeks to revise its Carmichael coalmine approval Read more The federal environment department has said it will take six to eight weeks to reassess the project after it emerged the environment minister, Greg Hunt, had not properly considered the mine’s impact on two vulnerable species – the yakka skink and the ornamental snake.
(17) The use of ketamine hydrochloride and sodium pentobarbitone in the anaesthesia of two species of Australian skink was examined.
(18) This prompted an attack on Wednesday from trade minister Andrew Robb on conservationists he said were using “a skink” for “a patsy” in obstructionist legal challenges that were undermining trade talks with India.
(19) The structure of the Sertoli cell and its physical relationship with the germ cells was studied in laboratory maintained skinks, Eumeces laticeps (Schneider) in January, and September, corresponding to the periods of prenuptial and postnuptial spermatogenesis respectively.
(20) Respiration in both species was depressed but heart rate was increased in Bobtail skinks (Tiliqua rugosa) and depressed in King's skinks (Egernia kingii).