Singer vs Sinker - What's the difference?
singer | sinker |
Person who sings, is able to sing, or earns a living by singing.
(square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure. See square dance singer.
(fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink
(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
(construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
(slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
* 1926 , Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel , page 268
* 2001 , Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 , page 148
* 2003 , William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man , page 168
In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
As a proper noun singer
is .As a noun sinker is
(fishing) a weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.singer
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(wikipedia singer) (en noun)Derived terms
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* English agent nouns ----sinker
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(en noun)- Hook the sinker onto this loop.
- His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.
- Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.
- they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers .
- "Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.