A sink is a bowl-shaped place in a kitchen or bathroom. Water comes from taps, and it drains out through a hole. People use it to clean things or their hands.
The kitchen sink is full of dishes.
Please wash your hands in the sink.
Sink is used when something goes down, like the sun moving lower in the sky or prices becoming lower. It means a slow fall or decrease.
The sun will sink behind the hills soon.
Prices sink when demand is low.
Sink means to go inside or under something slowly. For example, a knife going into wood or teeth going into food.
The knife sank into the wood quickly.
His teeth sank into the apple.
A sink is a place or system that collects or uses up something, like carbon in nature or heat energy in oceans. It helps reduce the amount of that thing in the environment.
Carbon sinks absorb carbon dioxide from air.
The ocean acts as a sink for heat energy.
Sink means to put money, time, or effort into something and lose it with no benefit. It often means waste or failure to get it back.
The project sank a lot of money quickly.
He sank all his time into the job.
A sink is a natural deep or low place in land where water or lava goes underground. It is like a hole or hollow.
The water disappeared into a sink in the ground.
The cave has many sinks and holes.
In technology, a sink is a part that takes in signals, energy, or heat and does not send it onward. For example, a heat sink cools parts by removing heat.
The sink in the circuit absorbs extra current.
A heat sink cools electronic devices quickly.
