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Yes. The word sink is a Scrabble US word. The word sink is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (4 found)

INKS,KINS,SINK,SKIN,

3-letter words (8 found)

INK,INS,KIN,KIS,NIS,SIK,SIN,SKI,

2-letter words (4 found)

IN,IS,KI,SI,

You can make 16 words from sink according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of sink

sink isnk snik nsik insk nisk sikn iskn skin ksin iksn kisn snki nski skni ksni nksi knsi inks niks ikns kins nkis knis

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Definitions and meaning of sink

sink

Etymology

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).

Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /sɪŋk/
  • (Baltimore, New Orleans) IPA(key): /zɪŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk
  • Homophones: sync, synch, cinque, zinc

Verb

sink (third-person singular simple present sinks, present participle sinking, simple past sank or sunk, past participle sunk or sunken)

  2. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
    1. (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
    2. (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
    3. (transitive) To push (something) into something.
    4. (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
      to sink a well in the ground
    5. (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
  3. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
    1. (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
    2. (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
    3. (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
  4. (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
  5. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
    • 1849 December 15, Frederick William Robertson, Sermon 14, “The Principle of Spiritual Harvest”:
      I say not always dishonorable qualifications, but a certain flexibility of disposition; a certain courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths, and adapt ourselves to the prejudices of the minds of others […]
  6. (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
  7. (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
  8. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
  9. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  10. (intransitive, archaic) To die.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:die
  11. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

Usage notes

  • Use of sunk for the simple past instead of sank is not uncommon, but may be considered non-standard. See also the obsolete sench.

Synonyms

  • (descend into a liquid, etc): descend, founder, go down
  • (submerge): dip, dunk, submerge
  • (cause (ship, etc) to sink):
  • (push (something) into):

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sink (plural sinks)

  2. A basin used for holding water for washing.
    • 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1:
      Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink.
      Jen: Oh. Oh!
      Roy: Yeah...
      Jen: Which sink?
      Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house.
      Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him.
  3. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
  4. (geology) A sinkhole.
  5. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
  6. A heat sink.
  7. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
  8. (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
  9. (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
    1. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
  10. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
  11. (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
  12. (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
  13. An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
  14. A depression in a stereotype plate.
  15. (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
  16. (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
  17. (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
    Antonym: faucet

Synonyms

  • (basin): basin, washbasin; see also washbasin for washing fixtures without water supply

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "graph theory"): source

Derived terms

  • (washbasin): vessel sink

Translations

Related terms

References

  • Honey, I sunk the boat, The Grammarphobia Blog

Anagrams

  • -kins, inks, k'ins, kins, skin

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səŋk/

Etymology 1

From Dutch zinken, from Middle Dutch sinken, from Old Dutch *sincan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).

Verb

sink (present sink, present participle sinkende, past participle gesink)

  1. (intransitive) to sink

Etymology 2

From Dutch zink, from German Zink.

Noun

sink (uncountable)

  1. zinc

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zink, probably via Russian цинк (cink).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siŋk/

Noun

sink (definite accusative sinki, plural sinklər)

  1. zinc

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schinken.

Noun

sink (genitive singi, partitive sinki)

  1. ham

Declension

References

  • sink in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Faroese

Etymology

From German Zink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪŋ̊k/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋ̊k

Noun

sink n (genitive singular sinks, uncountable)

  1. (metal) zinc

Declension

Derived terms

  • sinksalva

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zink.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪŋ̊k

Noun

sink n (genitive singular sinks, no plural)

  1. zinc (chemical element)

Declension

Anagrams

  • skin

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

Inherited from French cinq (“five”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛ̃k/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ̃k

Numeral

sink

  1. five

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from English sink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪnk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪnk

Noun

sink m (plural sinkijiet)

  1. sink
    Synonym: mejjilla

Mauritian Creole

Numeral

sink

  1. Alternative spelling of senk

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

sink m or n (definite singular sinken or sinket) (uncountable)

  1. zinc (chemical element, symbol Zn)

Derived terms

  • forsinke
  • sinksulfat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Zink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪŋk/

Noun

sink m or n (definite singular sinken or sinket) (uncountable)

  1. zinc (chemical element, symbol Zn)

Derived terms

  • sinksulfat

References

  • “sink” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

West Frisian

Verb

sink

  1. first-person singular present of sinke
  2. imperative of sinke

Source: wiktionary.org