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sink

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Englisch > Deutsch
sink
1. Verb:
2. [1] (in einer Flüssigkeit) sich langsam zum Boden herunterbewegen; sinken, untergehen, versinken
[1] I had a paddleboat for ten years. Last year, however, it sank.
Ich hatte zehn Jahre lang ein Paddelboot. Letztes Jahr ist es jedoch gesunken.
3. Substantiv:
4. [1] das Waschbecken, Spülbecken, Abwaschbecken
5. [2] Abfallgrube
6. [3] Abwasserkanal
7. [4] Senke, Bodensenke
Englisch > Englisch
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. subst. A basin used for holding water for washing
16. subst. A drain for carrying off wastewater
17. subst. (geology) A sinkhole
18. subst. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
19. subst. A heat sink
20. subst. A place that absorbs resources or energy
21. subst. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch
Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink.
22. subst. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
23. subst. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network
Deutsch > Englisch
Spülbecken
1. n-n. sink, especially kitchen sink