English words for 'Sinks collectively.'
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noun
- That which sinks or descends.
- One who sinks something.
- (construction) A sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
- (baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball.
- In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
- (slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
- (fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.
- a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water)
- a small ring-shaped friedcake
- a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate
verb
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
noun
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
verb
- sink below the surface
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
- fail utterly; collapse
- stumble and nearly fall
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
noun
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- a worker who makes metal castings
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
verb
- sink down or precipitate
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- come as if by falling
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
noun
verb
- sink down or precipitate
- (intransitive) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
- wear off or die down
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- sink to a lower level or form a depression
- (intransitive) To fall downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To cease talking.
- (intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil.
noun
- sinking until covered completely with water
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
- (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
- the act of wetting something by submerging it
- (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
- Deep engagement in something.
- (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
verb
- cause to drop or sink
- lower (prices or markets)
- lessen the activity or force of
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- press down
- (economics) To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
- To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
- (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
- To press down.
- To make depressed, sad or bored.
verb
- cause to drop or sink
- make lower or quieter
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- set lower
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- Alternative spelling of lour.
- (transitive) To reduce the height of
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To pull down
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- (transitive) To depress as to direction
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble
- (transitive) To make less elevated
adj
noun
adv
verb
- fall or sink heavily
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
adj
verb
- sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- fill or cover completely, usually with water
- put under water
- (transitive, figurative) To drown or suppress.
- (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
- (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
- (transitive, figurative, often in the passive voice) To engulf or overwhelm.
- (transitive, often in the passive voice) To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.
verb
noun
- A conical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (with a matching taper) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
- The cutter used to cut such a recess. (Also used, at less depth, for edge-breaking/deburring.)
- a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole
- a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface
adj
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- (wine) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- as if echoing in a hollow space
- lacking in substance or character
- not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
- devoid of significance or force
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adv
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verb
noun
verb
noun
- a gradual sinking to a lower level
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
- the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it
- The process of becoming less active or severe.
- (geology) A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.
noun
- The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
- A place where the surface (of a seat, the earth, etc) sinks or droops, like a depression or a dip in a ridge.
- The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
- The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
- Alternative form of saag.
- a shape that sags
verb
- (transitive) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
- (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
- To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
- (informal, Canada) To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.
- (informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
- (figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
- To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- cause to sag
noun
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- a steep and rapid fall
- a brief swim in water
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- cause to be immersed
- begin with vigor
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- fall abruptly
noun
adj
adj
verb
- To sink; to settle, as sediment.
- To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
- To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
- be inherent or innate in
- make one's home in a particular place or community
- live (in a certain place)
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adv
noun
verb
noun
verb
- submerge or plunge suddenly
- dip into a liquid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
- (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
noun
- small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
- Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
verb
verb
- (nautical, of a ship or boat) To sink.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.
- (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, of a gang) To attack another gang.
- (intransitive, slang) To take place, happen.
- (intransitive) To be received or accepted.
- (intransitive) To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
- (intransitive, of a heavenly body) Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
- (aviation, intransitive) To crash.
- To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
- (intransitive) To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
- (intransitive) To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
- (intransitive, slang) To be soundly defeated.
- (intransitive) To be recorded or remembered (as).
- (intransitive, computing, engineering) To stop functioning, to go offline.
- (intransitive, with on) To perform oral sex.
- stop operating
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- disappear beyond the horizon
- be recorded or remembered
- be defeated
- go under
- be ingested
- grow smaller
noun
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a recurrent rhythmical series
verb
noun
- The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
- (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
- A heavy blow.
- The act of sousing, or swooping.
- A pickle made with salt.
- (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
- The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
- A drunkard.
- The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
- (US, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of source.
- the act of making something completely wet
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
verb
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
- (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
- (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
- (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.
- cook in a marinade
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- become drunk or drink excessively
noun
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
verb
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- measure precisely and against a standard
- adapt to a specified measurement
adj
adj
- flowing together
- Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- (mathematics) Given a binary operation →_β on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure ↠_β , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 →_β a2 and a1 →_β a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 ↠_β a4 and a3 ↠_β a4.
- (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
- (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
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- (UK) A term used primarily by some navies for nuclear submarines, termed true submersibles, because they cannot retroactively declare that their nonnuclear submarines should be called by a different name.
- (US) A very small baby submarine designed for specific localized missions, usually while tethered to a submarine or ship for life support and communications.
- (UK) A small nonmilitary, nonnuclear submarine for exploration.
- (UK) A retroactive term used for nonnuclear submarines; nuclear submarines are termed true submarines.
- (nautical) An underwater vehicle with limited mobility, similar to a submarine, but less mobile.
- an apparatus intended for use under water
- a warship designed to operate under water
noun
- That which sinks or descends.
- One who sinks something.
- (construction) A sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
- (baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball.
- In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
- (slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
- (fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.
- a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water)
- a small ring-shaped friedcake
- a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate
noun
- sinking until covered completely with water
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
- (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
- the act of wetting something by submerging it
- (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
- Deep engagement in something.
- (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
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verb
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- a gradual sinking to a lower level
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
- the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it
- The process of becoming less active or severe.
- (geology) A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.
noun
- The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
- A place where the surface (of a seat, the earth, etc) sinks or droops, like a depression or a dip in a ridge.
- The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
- The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
- Alternative form of saag.
- a shape that sags
verb
- (transitive) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
- (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
- To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
- (informal, Canada) To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.
- (informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
- (figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
- To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- cause to sag
noun
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
- a steep and rapid fall
- a brief swim in water
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- cause to be immersed
- begin with vigor
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- fall abruptly
noun
adj
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- (wine) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- as if echoing in a hollow space
- lacking in substance or character
- not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
- devoid of significance or force
noun
adv
intj
verb
noun
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a recurrent rhythmical series
verb
noun
- The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
- (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
- A heavy blow.
- The act of sousing, or swooping.
- A pickle made with salt.
- (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
- The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
- A drunkard.
- The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
- (US, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of source.
- the act of making something completely wet
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
verb
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
- (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
- (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
- (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.
- cook in a marinade
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- become drunk or drink excessively
noun
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
verb
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- measure precisely and against a standard
- adapt to a specified measurement
verb
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
noun
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
verb
- sink below the surface
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
- fail utterly; collapse
- stumble and nearly fall
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
noun
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- a worker who makes metal castings
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
verb
- sink down or precipitate
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- come as if by falling
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
noun
verb
- sink down or precipitate
- (intransitive) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
- wear off or die down
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- sink to a lower level or form a depression
- (intransitive) To fall downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To cease talking.
- (intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil.
verb
- cause to drop or sink
- lower (prices or markets)
- lessen the activity or force of
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- press down
- (economics) To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
- To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
- (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
- To press down.
- To make depressed, sad or bored.
verb
- cause to drop or sink
- make lower or quieter
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- set lower
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- Alternative spelling of lour.
- (transitive) To reduce the height of
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To pull down
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- (transitive) To depress as to direction
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble
- (transitive) To make less elevated
adj
noun
adv
verb
- fall or sink heavily
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
verb
- sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- fill or cover completely, usually with water
- put under water
- (transitive, figurative) To drown or suppress.
- (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
- (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
- (transitive, figurative, often in the passive voice) To engulf or overwhelm.
- (transitive, often in the passive voice) To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.
verb
noun
- A conical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (with a matching taper) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
- The cutter used to cut such a recess. (Also used, at less depth, for edge-breaking/deburring.)
- a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole
- a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface
verb
- To sink; to settle, as sediment.
- To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
- To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
- be inherent or innate in
- make one's home in a particular place or community
- live (in a certain place)
verb
adj
adv
noun
verb
noun
verb
- submerge or plunge suddenly
- dip into a liquid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
- (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
noun
- small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
- Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
verb
verb
- (nautical, of a ship or boat) To sink.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.
- (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, of a gang) To attack another gang.
- (intransitive, slang) To take place, happen.
- (intransitive) To be received or accepted.
- (intransitive) To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
- (intransitive, of a heavenly body) Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
- (aviation, intransitive) To crash.
- To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
- (intransitive) To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
- (intransitive) To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
- (intransitive, slang) To be soundly defeated.
- (intransitive) To be recorded or remembered (as).
- (intransitive, computing, engineering) To stop functioning, to go offline.
- (intransitive, with on) To perform oral sex.
- stop operating
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- disappear beyond the horizon
- be recorded or remembered
- be defeated
- go under
- be ingested
- grow smaller
verb
noun
adj
adj
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- (wine) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- as if echoing in a hollow space
- lacking in substance or character
- not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
- devoid of significance or force
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adv
intj
verb
adj
adj
adj
adj
- flowing together
- Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- (mathematics) Given a binary operation →_β on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure ↠_β , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 →_β a2 and a1 →_β a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 ↠_β a4 and a3 ↠_β a4.
- (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
- (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
noun
adj
noun
- (UK) A term used primarily by some navies for nuclear submarines, termed true submersibles, because they cannot retroactively declare that their nonnuclear submarines should be called by a different name.
- (US) A very small baby submarine designed for specific localized missions, usually while tethered to a submarine or ship for life support and communications.
- (UK) A small nonmilitary, nonnuclear submarine for exploration.
- (UK) A retroactive term used for nonnuclear submarines; nuclear submarines are termed true submarines.
- (nautical) An underwater vehicle with limited mobility, similar to a submarine, but less mobile.
- an apparatus intended for use under water
- a warship designed to operate under water