English Dictionary

sink

/sɪŋk/

noun

A basin used for holding water for washing. / A drain for carrying off wastewater. / (geology) A sinkhole. / A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet. / A heat sink.

I filled the sink with soapy water to wash the dishes.

意味（1）

A basin used for holding water for washing.

Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink.

Jen: Oh. Oh!

Roy: Yeah...

Jen: Which sink?

Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house.

Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink. Jen: Oh. Oh! Roy: Yeah... Jen: Which sink? Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house. Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him.

意味（2）

A drain for carrying off wastewater.

意味（3）

(geology) A sinkhole.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

A heat sink.

意味（6）

A place that absorbs resources or energy.

意味（7）

(ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.

意味（8）

(uncountable) Descending motion; descent.

意味（9）

(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.

Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.

意味（10）

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

意味（11）

(graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.

意味（12）

An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.

意味（13）

A depression in a stereotype plate.

意味（14）

(theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.

意味（15）

(mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.

意味（16）

(game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.