Engels Woord van de dag

sink

gootsteen

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

sink

1. gootsteen, afwasbak

2. zinken

Engels > Engels

sink

1. v. To move or be moved into something.:

2. v. To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.

A stone sinks in water. The sun gradually sank in the west.

3. v. To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.

4. v. To push (something) into something.

The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards. The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.

5. v. (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.

6. v. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.

7. v. (intransitive figuratively, of the human heart) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.

8. v. (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.

to sink one's reputation

9. v. (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

10. v. (transitive, slang) To conceal and appropriate.

11. v. (transitive, slang) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

12. v. (transitive, slang) To reduce or extinguish by payment.

to sink the national debt

13. v. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

14. v. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

15. n. A basin used for holding water for washing

16. n. A drain for carrying off wastewater

17. n. (geology) A sinkhole

18. n. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet

19. n. A heat sink

20. n. A place that absorbs resources or energy

21. n. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch

Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink.

22. n. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink

23. n. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network

Nederlands > Engels

gootsteen

1. n-m. sink, basin

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

The sink is full of dirty dishes.
    De gootsteen staat vol met vuile vaat.
She put the dirty dishes in the sink.
    Zij zette de vuile borden in de gootsteen.
I'm afraid this boat will sink if we take more than seven people.
    Ik ben bang dat de boot zinkt als we meer dan zeven mensen meenemen.

Vorige woorden herzien

May	seal	ruler	sixty-four
glider	sauce	eight	stationery
sixty-nine	anaesthetic	fence	cable car
bark	wave	minute	skin

Willekeurig

chocolate	tongue	vegetable	sailor
mask	cloudy	ladder	flute
balcony	ship	clock	milk
grape	hose	bench	grey

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