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sinking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sink \Sink\ (s[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. Sunk (s[u^][ng]k), or ( Sank (s[a^][ng]k)); p. p. Sunk (obs. Sunken, -- now used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. Sinking.] [OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. s["o]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. Silt.]
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To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
I sink in deep mire.
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2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
The stone sunk into his forehead.
--1 San. xvii. 49. -
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Let these sayings sink down into your ears.
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4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
--Shak.He sunk down in his chariot.
--2 Kings ix. 24.Let not the fire sink or slacken.
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To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him.
--Addison.Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.
Sinking \Sink"ing\, a. & n. from Sink.
Sinking fund. See under Fund.
Sinking head (Founding), a riser from which the mold is fed as the casting shrinks. See Riser, n., 4.
Sinking pump, a pump which can be lowered in a well or a mine shaft as the level of the water sinks.
Wiktionary
n. The act or process of sinking. vb. (present participle of sink English)
WordNet
n. a descent as through liquid (especially through water); "they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic"
a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength); "after several hours of sinking an unexpected rally rescued the market"; "he could not control the sinking of his legs"
a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension; "with a sinking heart"; "a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach" [syn: sinking feeling]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Sinking, also known as doming, dishing or dapping, is a metalworking technique whereby flat sheet metal is formed into a non-flat object by hammering it into a concave indentation. While sinking is a relatively fast method, it results in stretching and therefore thinning the metal, risking failure of the metal if it is 'sunk' too far.
Sinking is used in the manufacture of many items, from jewellery to plate armour.
Sinking was a studio album by The Aloof it included a mixture of songs and instrumentals released in 1996 it's U.K. Chart position was #123.
Sinking may refer to:
- Sinking of a ship. See Foundering
- Being submerged
- Sinking (metalworking), a metalworking technique
- Sinking (song), a song by No Doubt
- Sinking and sourcing, (electronic circuits, output current capability)
- Sinking (album), a 1996 studio album by The Aloof
- Sinking champagne, the act of pouring out champagne in the sink
- Sinking Creek (disambiguation), several creeks
- Shaft sinking, the process of digging a shaft in shaft mining
Sinking of champagne is the act of pouring out champagne in the sink. Sinking probably started in Sweden as "a reaction to the ban on spraying champagne in many bars" and the sinking is usually done by a person ordering two bottles of champagne and asking the bartender to pour out (sink) one of them. The term "sinking" is a translation of the Swedish "vaskning," derived from "vask," which means "sink."
Usage examples of "sinking".
So desperate indeed did the situation of the son of Theodosius appear, to those who were the best acquainted with his strength and resources, that Jovius and Valens, his minister and his general, betrayed their trust, infamously deserted the sinking cause of their benefactor, and devoted their treacherous allegiance to the service of his more fortunate rival.
It was Gibbs who had masterminded the sale of the Shark, a World War II, Gato- class submarine, to the Chilean government, and arranged its modifications to look like the Barracuda, before sinking it in fifteen hundred fathoms of water.
But not one of them ever mentioned a word questioning the reported sinking of the Barracuda .
Between the animals sinking in quicksand up to their bellies and the men being drenched through with mud, they were in a pretty mean mood by the time they reached the Mexican border.
And now, at last, as she stood in the stern of the ship, in a pitch-dark, rather blowy night, feeling the motion of the sea, and watching the small, rather desolate little lights that twinkled on the shores of England, as on the shores of nowhere, watched them sinking smaller and smaller on the profound and living darkness, she felt her soul stirring to awake from its anaesthetic sleep.
The miners who had left the Burra for goldseeking gradually came back, and the nine remarkable copper mines of Moonta and Wallaroo attracted the Cornishmen, who preferred steady wages and homes to the diminishing chances of Ballarat and Bendigo where machinery and deep sinking demanded capital, and the miners were paid by the week.
The three other Tyrin followed them, curiously each sinking to his knees and mouthing a nipple.
They were sinking mushily into the mud as I stopped-then carefully began to back out.
Flustered, she walked into the kitchen, nonplussed by her rapid pulse, a sinking sensation, a feeling of weakness.
But the tendency to rapid sinking in this substance was in the present instance materially counteracted by the other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it sank very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair chance for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say.
Then sinking from his stool on to his knees, Panda crawled through the doorway of his great hut, which was close to him, and vanished.
The paravane was streaming neatly outward to starboard in a fanning arc, sinking slowly beneath the surface with a red float above it to mark the place.
Sinking down upon the stone lip of a big through fed by the run-off of the public pump, she sat as if petrified, thinking of nothing at all.
Sir Giorgio Predone had his own ship, the galleass Spaventoso, rowed over closer to the obviously sinking galley that he had holed.
I am wrong I freely admit it, and now I admit that the technique of preforming and sinking tunnel sections is not as dangerous as normally assumed and is indeed faster as you have proven.