Kink vs Sink - What's the difference?
kink | sink |
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
* Frederic Swartwout Cozzens
(slang, countable, and, uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
* 2013 , Alison Tyler, H Is for Hardcore (page 13)
(Scotland, dialect) A fit of coughing or laughter.
(mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the
To move or be moved into something.
#(lb) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
#:
#(lb) To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
#(lb) To push (something) into something.
#:
# 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.
#:
#*(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.
:
(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.
*
*: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
In transitive terms the difference between kink and sink
is that kink is to form a kink or twist while sink is to push (something) into something.In intransitive terms the difference between kink and sink
is that kink is to be formed into a kink or twist while sink is to decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.As verbs the difference between kink and sink
is that kink is to laugh loudly while sink is To move or be moved into something.As nouns the difference between kink and sink
is that kink is a convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying while sink is a basin used for holding water for washing.kink
English
(wikipedia kink)Etymology 1
From (etyl) kinken, kynken, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) or (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.
- They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks .
- Never a Yankee was born or bred / Without that peculiar kink in his head / By which he could turn the smallest amount / Of whatever he had to the best account.
- To top it all off, Lynn is into kink . Last night she was really into kink. It's a good thing that today is my day off because I need the time to recuperate and think things over.
Derived terms
* kinked * kinky * kinkle * kinkster ----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 .