Sink vs Bore - What's the difference?
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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)
*: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.
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
(computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
(graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network
(senseid)To inspire boredom in somebody.
* Shakespeare
* Carlyle
(senseid)To make a hole through something.
* Shakespeare
To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
* T. W. Harris
To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
* John Gay
To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
* Dryden
(of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
A hole drilled or milled through something.
* Francis Bacon
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired.
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water. The place where the well exists.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest.
Something that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome affair.
* Hawthorne
Calibre; importance.
* Shakespeare
A sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave; an eagre.
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In transitive terms the difference between sink and bore
is that sink is to push (something) into something while bore is to make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.In intransitive terms the difference between sink and bore
is that sink is to decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height while bore is to push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.As verbs the difference between sink and bore
is that sink is To move or be moved into something.bore is (to inspire boredom) To inspire boredom in somebody.As nouns the difference between sink and bore
is that sink is a basin used for holding water for washing while bore is a hole drilled or milled through something.sink
English
Verb
John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
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 * countersinkNoun
(wikipedia sink) (en noun)- Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink .
Synonyms
* (basin) basin, washbasinAntonyms
* (destination vertex) sourcebore
English
(wikipedia bore)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; confer German drillen.Verb
(bor)- He bores me with some trick.
- used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
- I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored .
- to bore for water or oil
- An insect bores into a tree.
- to bore''' a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to '''bore a hole
- short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
- to bore one's way through a crowd
- What bustling crowds I bored .
- This timber does not bore well.
- They take their flight boring to the west.
- (Crabb)
- I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned, / Baffled and bored , it seems.
Antonyms
* interestSynonyms
* SeeNoun
(en noun)- the bore of a cannon
- the bores of wind instruments
- It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
- Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.