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say it: singk
sink is a verb and noun meaning "fall or descend to a lower place or level". It carries 13 recorded senses.
fall or descend to a lower place or level
“He sank to his knees”
cause to sink
“The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor”
fall or sink heavily
“He slumped onto the couch”
“My spirits sank”
plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
“the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide”
engineering
a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sink come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.