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sink
  1. A basin used for holding water for washing
  2. A drain for carrying off wastewater
  3. (geology) A sinkhole
  4. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
  5. A heat sink
  6. A place that absorbs resources or energy
  7. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch
  8. (computing) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
  9. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network
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  11. Examples:
    1. “He washed himself as best he could at the sink in the bathroom.”
      “Hugo longed to escape to Zalem, away from the sink that was Iron City.”
sinker
  1. One who sinks something.
  2. (fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.
  3. (baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball.
  4. (construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
  5. (slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
  6. In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “He has found a comfortable grip on his sinker, which consistently gets ground balls.”
      “Trail fifty or sixty yards of line behind the boat with no sinker, swivel or anything on the line.”
      “Once overboard, the buoyant mine and its sinker separated but were held together by a chain set to the requisite length.”
sinkhole
  1. (geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage
  2. A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
  3. (pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
  4. (Internet) A DNS server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Then one day your showboating will catch up with you and you'll eventfully fall into a sinkhole and break both your legs.”
      “The unstable ground underneath his feet suddenly gave way, and he fell into a deep sinkhole.”
      “Then came the Kakabeka missing child search and stark reality hit when the youngster was found drowned in a sinkhole above the falls.”
sinkage
  1. An amount of material involved in a sinking.
  2. An area of sunken ground; a depression.
  3. The change in draft that a vessel obtains when moving through the water.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The Trimble S6 Total Station aims and stays on target through windy weather, vibrations, handling, and sinkage.”
      “SurePoint guards against the sinkage, vibration, and handling that can affect an instrument after setup.”
      “This spreadsheet ignored several factors, among them modifications to the waterplane caused by bodily sinkage and by water on deck.”
sinkwater
  1. The water in a sink.
sinkful
  1. As much as a sink will hold.
sinking
sinkholes
  1. plural of sinkhole
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This is the process by which rainwater erodes limestone cliffs and creates limestone caves and sinkholes.”
      “The trip passes by waterfalls, forests, canyons, valleys, sinkholes and caves.”
      “Even sinkholes similar to the one last summer have been around since the 18th Century.”
sinkages
sinkfuls
  1. plural of sinkful
sinkings
sinkers
  1. plural of sinker
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But I wasn't looking for that pitch because he was now throwing sinkers away.”
      “The project will help that state implement its new law banning lead sinkers weighing less than one ounce from fresh waters.”
      “Another result of human interaction is lead poisoning resulting from ingestion of fishing sinkers.”
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