Sink vs Sang - What's the difference?
sink | sang |
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
As nouns the difference between sink and sang
is that sink is a basin used for holding water for washing while sang is .As a verb sink
is to move or be moved into 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 .