sink
Because it is a word with a single syllable, sink is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofsink
- 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.
Example: "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
- (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.
Example: "I have sunk thousands of pounds into this project."
- To reduce or extinguish by payment.
Example: "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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