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 | |