Sink vs Gink - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sink and gink

is that sink is a basin used for holding water for washing while gink is a foolish or contemptible man.

As a verb sink

is To move or be moved into something.

sink
English

Verb

To move or be moved into something.

#(lb) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.

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#(lb) To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.

#(lb) To push (something) into something.

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# To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.

#*2008 , Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel

#*:My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.

To diminish or be diminished.

# To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.

#*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Ch.21:

#*:I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in black.

#*1915 , , The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston; ch. XIX:

#*:Peter's heart sank . "Don't you think it is dreadful?" he asked.

# To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:If I have a conscience, let it sink me.

#* (1674-1718)

#*:Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power / Has sunk thy father more than all his years.

#(lb) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

#*2013 , Steve Henschel, Niagara This Week , April 24:

#*:Who would sink so low as to steal change from veterans?

To conceal and appropriate.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account.

To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

* (1721-1793)

*:a courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths

To reduce or extinguish by payment.

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(lb) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.

*(rfdate) John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

*:Let not the fire sink or slacken.

(lb) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

*(rfdate) (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him.

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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

Usage notes
* Use of the past participle form sunk'' for the past ''sank is not uncommon, but considered incorrect.
Synonyms
* descend, go down * (submerge) dip, dunk, submerge * *
Derived terms
* sinker * sink in * sink like a stone * sinking fund * sinking head * sink or swim * sinking pump * sinking ship * countersink
Noun
(wikipedia sink) (en noun)
A basin used for holding water for washing

A drain for carrying off wastewater

(geology) A sinkhole

A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet

A heat sink

A place that absorbs resources or energy

(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch

Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink .

(computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink

(graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network

Synonyms
* (basin) basin, washbasin
Antonyms
* (destination vertex) source
Related terms
* countersink * everything but the kitchen sink
Anagrams
* inks, skin 1000 English basic words English ergative verbs English irregular verbs ----
gink
English

Noun
(en noun)
A foolish or contemptible man.

* {{quote-book
, year=1931 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Grace Hegger Lewis , title=Half a Loaf , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=189 , passage=Don't see a movie in it myself, but those Hollywood ginks will take anything. }}
* {{quote-book
, year=1973 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Richard Cowper , title=Clone , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Doubleday , isbn= , page=33 , passage=No wonder the country's on its bloody knees! You ginks are a bloody disgrace to the human race!' }}
(slang) a fellow; person.

* {{quote-book
, year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted. }}
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