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sinks

/sɪŋks/
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noun

  • A basin used for holding water for washing.
  • A drain for carrying off wastewater.
  • A sinkhole.
  • A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
  • A heat sink.
  • A place that absorbs resources or energy.
  • The motion of a sinker pitch.

    "Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink."

  • An object or callback that captures events; event sink
  • A destination vertex in a transportation network
  • An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
  • A depression in a stereotype plate.
  • A stage trap-door for shifting scenery.
  • An excavation less than a shaft.
  • (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation

verb

  • (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
  • (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
  • To conceal and appropriate.
  • To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
  • To pay absolutely.

    "I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project."

  • To reduce or extinguish by payment.

    "to sink the national debt"

  • To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  • To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

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