Definitions for "Sink"
Keywords:  sank, deeply, subside, raft, drowned
To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River.
A place in the environment where a compound or material collects. See reservoir.
A reservoir that uptakes a pollutant from another part of its cycle. Soil and trees tend to act as natural sinks for carbon.
In environmental chemistry, an area or part of the environment in which, or a process by which, one or more pollutants is removed from the medium in which it is dispersed; for example - moist ground acts as a sink for sulfur dioxide in the air.
Keywords:  putt, hole, lost, ball, goes
A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
To putt the ball into the hole.
To make a putt.
To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
See "sketch ink object (sInk)."
In DirectX, an object that manages the distribution of data from the synthesizer through buses to DirectSound buffers.
A COM object that acts as the physical delivery destination for the results of an asynchronous operation or an event notification. A sink implemented by a permanent consumer supports the IWbemUnboundObjectSink interface. A sink implemented by a temporary consumer or applications making asynchronous calls supports the IWbemObjectSink interface. Scripting clients can use the SWbemSink object and events, such as OnObjectReady, to receive callbacks resulting from asynchronous calls.
To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
Material with the property of adsorbing a chemical or pollutant with the potential of subsequent re-emission; sometimes called "sponge." (Gobbell, 1994, p. 70)
the ultimate storage area of an element (a nutrient, pollutant, etc.) moving through an ecosystem.
A place where a surface water course disappears underground. Also known as 'streamsink'.
A sink is a flow disappearing in a point. The flow streams towards the center. The farther away from the sink, the slower the speed of the flow becomes. You can also look at it as the opposite of a source.
a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
Sink is a Foetus Inc compilation album first released in 1989 on Self Immolation/Some Bizzare and Wax Trax! Records. It compiles rare and unreleased songs from various Foetus projects from 1981–1989.
Sink is an album released by Floater in September 1994. Lyrics of isolation and insanity are set against dark and moody aural landscapes, ambient sampling montages, and savage instrumental punch. Sink received a preliminary Grammy nomination in the category of Best Rock Album.
a region of the plant that has a demand for sugars, metabolites or nutrients, is usually actively growing or filling, and is the region to which translocation goes
happens in a riparian corridor when nutrients are taken up by plants and stored in plant tissue for extended periods of time
refers to a location where chemicals or nutrients eventually end up.
Keywords:  conseal, appropriate
To conseal and appropriate.
Keywords:  boon, laundry, center, real
a real boon to a laundry center
The consumption point of electricity.
A locally asymptotically stable fixed point.
A point at which field vectors converge.
Keywords:  impression, abiding, hence, die, enter
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
To cut an impression in a die.
A sinking air mass. Commonly found outside thermals, between lift sources or in rotors.
descending air.
Cooling air travelling downwards dragging you with it. AVOID! Where there is lift there is sink nearby......
Keywords:  inflow, outflow, element
an element for which there is an inflow but no outflow
Unique four-character node indentifier used in transmission path naming terminology to represent the location or aggregate location where energy is consumed.
Device such as a load that consumes power or conducts away heat.
a complex fold in which a corner of the model is turned inside out to become a pocket. Sinks may be either open or closed. An open sink is one in which the layers of the paper can be opened to allow the sink to be achieved in a structured manner. A closed sink is one where the layers of the paper cannot be opened and the sink must be performed in an ad hoc manner. Closed sinks can often be turned into open sinks by a careful restructuring of the layers.
Keywords:  ignore, suppress, sight
To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
Keywords:  gil, economy, permanently, taken, place
a place where gil is permanently taken out of the economy
Keywords:  unify, layout, column, drop, height
Or drop is a page layout technique based on reducing column height and adding white space to the top of each page. Sinks unify a publication and provide page to-page continuity.
Keywords:  inadequate, amino, sugar, flower, root
a root, flower, or other structure that has inadequate sugar or amino acids
To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
Keywords:  poor, little, profit, potential, future
A piece of business that has consistently shown poor results (and is considered to have little potential for future profit)
Keywords:  refines, mode, output, device
a Device whose mode refines output
Keywords:  quantity, waste, bring, low, reduce
To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
a cell or group of cells surrounded on all sides by cells of higher elevation
Keywords:  pot, ball
Keywords:  true, treat, real
a real treat, if only it were not so true
Keywords:  reversed, edges, along, four, paper
Where paper is reversed in direction along four edges
Keywords:  load, see