sink

/sɪŋk/

意味: 流し台

例文: The sink overflowed with frosting bowls.
　　  流し台がフロスティングのボウルであふれた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: kitchen sink(キッチンシンク), sink in(沈む), sinkhole(陥没穴)

定義: Sinkは「沈む」や「沈める」という意味です。水や液体の中に物が下に移動することを指します。また、台所で使う「シンク」は、食器を洗うための水をためる場所を指します。

sinkは約60,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
Noun: (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
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
Noun: a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
Verb: fall or descend to a lower place or level
Verb: cause to sink
Verb: pass into a specified state or condition
Verb: go under,
Verb: descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
Verb: appear to move downward
Verb: fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
Verb: fall or sink heavily
Verb: embed deeply

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The dishes are dirty in the kitchen sink.(台所の流しに皿が汚れている。)
The ship began to sink after hitting the iceberg.(氷山にぶつかって船が沈み始めた。)
Please don’t let your hopes sink so quickly.(そんなに早く希望を失わないで。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide
Verb: He sank to his knees
Verb: The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor
Verb: He sank into nirvana
Verb: The raft sank and its occupants drowned
Verb: He sank into bed
Verb: She subsided into the chair
Verb: The sun dipped below the horizon
Verb: The setting sun sank below the tree line
Verb: The real estate market fell off
Verb: He slumped onto the couch
Verb: My spirits sank
Verb: She sank her fingers into the soft sand
Verb: He buried his head in her lap

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bury, cesspit, cesspool, dip, drop, drop down, fall off, go down, go under, lapse, pass, settle, sink, sinkhole, slide down, slump, subside, sump, swallow hole

Antonyms(反意語): float, source

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change posture, cistern, collapse, decline, descend, drop, implant, move, natural depression, natural process, plumbing fixture

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absorption, acidification, adiabatic process, advance, aeration, agitate, alight, antiredeposition, arise, avalanche, basin, beat, bed, blow, bow, brandish, break, buckle, bury, capture, cascade, center, centrifugation, cesspool, change hands, chase away, chemical process, chromatography, circulate, concretion, condensation, convection, crash, crater, curdling, dandle, decay, decline, demagnetization, desorption, diffusion, dip, disarrange, dislocate, displace, dissolution, distillation, dive, drag, drift, drip, drive, drop, effervescence, electrophoresis, engage, establishment, expel, exteriorize, extinction, extraction, fall, feedback, filtration, flick, flocculation, flop, flow, fluctuate, formation, fossilization, fountain, funnel, geological process, glide, hardening, herd, hit, hole, hunch, hustle, implode, inactivation, ion exchange, ionization, jar, lateralize, launch, leach, lie down, lift, lower, lowland, magnetization, materialization, mobilize, nest, nuclear reaction, opacification, oscillation, overturn, oxygenation, pair production, phase change, pitch, play, plop, pot, pounce, pour, precession of the equinoxes, precipitate, press down, prolapse, propel, pull, pulse, pump, push, put, race, radiation, rain barrel, raise, rake, rappel, release, relocate, right, rock, roll, rout out, run, saltate, saltation, scan, scattering, scroll, send, separate, sericulture, set, shift, shower, singsong, sink, sinkhole, sit down, sit up, slide, sling, slip, slump, soak, softening, sorption, source, spill, station, step, stiffening, stimulation, stir, straighten, succession, survival, swing, synergy, take back, temperature change, toilet, transduction, transfer, translate, transmit, transpiration, transport, trench, trough, tug, tumble, turn, uncurl, unhorse, unseat, unwind, uproot, upstage, urinal, valley, vitrification, wash, water faucet, wedge, whistle, wind, woosh, work

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): drop open, founder, heat sink, kitchen sink, sag, set, settle, submerge, subside, washbasin

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: drop, falloff, passage, sinker, sinking, slump

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: technology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: