A Quick and Simple Dictionary

sink

1. Verb.  (intransitive) to descend into a liquid or other substance or material.
2. Verb.  (transitive) to submerge (something) in a liquid or other substance or material.
3. Verb.  (transitive) to cause (a ship, etc) to sink.
4. Verb.  (transitive) to push (something) into something.
5. Verb.  (intransitive) Describing metaphorically the experience of apprehension, disappointment, or momentary depression as felt via an internal human organ (usually the heart).
6. Verb.  (snooker, pool) to pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
7. Noun.  A basin used for holding water for washing.
8. Noun.  A sinkhole.
9. Noun.  A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
10. Noun.  A heat sink.
11. Noun.  A place that absorbs resources or energy.
12. Noun.  (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
13. Noun.  (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink.
14. Noun.  (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network.