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Sinking

Definition: Sinking

Sinking

Noun

1. A descent as through liquid (especially through water); "they still talk about the sinking of the Titanic".

2. A slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength); "after several hours of sinking an unexpected rally rescued the market"; "he could not control the sinking of his legs".

3. A feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension; "with a sinking heart"; "a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sinking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Sinking

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

In atmospheric optics, a refraction phenomenon, the opposite of looming, in which an object on or slightly above the geographic horizon apparently sinks below it. Compare inferior mirage, stooping.Sinking occurs whenever the rate of density decreases with height through the atmosphere is of smaller magnitude than normal or, in extreme cases, where the density actually increases with height. (references)

Environment

Controlling oil spills by using an agent to trap the oil and sink it to the bottom of the body of water where the agent and the oil are biodegraded. (references)

Geography

Downward movement of the surface water, generally caused by converging currents or by a water mass that becomes denser than the surrounding water. Source: European Union. (references)
 The case in which objects situated on or slightly above the normal horizon become invisible is popularly termed "--". Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

The process by which a shaft is driven. Source: European Union. (references)
 A. The process by which a shaft is driven b. Extending excavations downward at or near the vertical plane.See also:raising; shaft sinking. (references)

Transportation

When a vessel loses enough buoyancy to permanently settle below the surface of the water. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Sinking

Synonym: sinking feeling (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: shipwrecking (transportation).

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Synonyms within Context: Sinking

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dejection

Phrase: the countenance falling; the heart failing, the heart sinking within one; "a plague of sighing and grief"; " thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred".

Noun: dejection; dejectedness; Adjective: depression, prosternation; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart.

Treasury

Sinking fund; stocks; public stocks, public funds, public securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary securities; Consols, credit mobilier; bonds.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sinking

English words defined with "sinking": Barratry, Bead proofCavo-rilievo, Costeaning, CreuxDeliquium, Depression of the pole, Depression of the visible horizon, DescensionForcer, founderinggoing underin suspension, IntrocessionlifeboatPin drillQuantsettle, settling, Shrinking head, sinking feeling, sinking fund, Sinking pump, sinking spell, subsidence, subsiding, sunset, suspended, Suspensible, SwaggyTo bear a loss, To keep one's head above waterWell sinking. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sinking": caisson sinking, concrete caisson sinkingforeshaft sinking, Francois sinking processmultideck sinking platformpneumatic shaft sinkingshaft sinking, sinking and walling scaffold, sinking in rock, sinking plant, sinking platform, sinking stage. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sinking

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's sinking in slowly now (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov)

All rats know when to desert a sinking ship. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

First we're flying - now we're sinking! (Erik the Viking; writing credit: Terry Jones)

The ship is sinking, gentlemen. (Country; writing credit: Trevor Griffiths)

Lyrics

As I'm sinking (Tell Me; performing artist: Billie Myers)

Must be your skin I'm sinking in (Glycerine; performing artist: Bush)

Spinning room is sinking deep (25 or 6 to 4; performing artist: Chicago)

It's sinking in fast (TIL I HEAR IT FROM YOU; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

Sinking into sweet uncertainty (Sweetness; performing artist: Jimmy Eat World)

Movie/TV Titles

That Sinking Feeling (1973)

The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)

That Sinking Feeling (2000)

Sinking of HMS Victoria (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sinking

DomainTitle

References

  • The World Market for Parts for Boring or Sinking Machinery: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The Sinking of Odradek Stadium (reference)

  • The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters (reference)

  • Titanic: A Survivor's Story and the Sinking of the S.S. Titanic (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • A Night to Remember: The Sinking of the Titanic (reference)

  • Shazam:Incredible Sinking City (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sinking

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Photo Album: Sinking

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Figure 55. A coupled sinking float for use on the high sea devised by Julien Thoulet in 1896. This is the original model that was never tested at sea. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Burning and sinking after her crew abandoned ship during the Battle of Coral Sea, 8 May 1942. Note planes parked aft, where fires have not yet reached. Credit: NAVY.

USS Saratoga (CV-3) sinking in Bikini Lagoon after she was fatally damaged by the "Baker Day" underwater atomic bomb test, 25 July 1946. Note her hull number ("3") still visible at the front of her flight deck, air escaping from her submerged hull and oil streaming away to starboard. Credit: NAVY.

It beats anything for a sinking spell. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nixon's trying to desert Benson's sinking ship?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wilson reading report on sinking of Lusitania while Uncle Sam says "steady". Credit: Library of Congress.

The Sinking of H.M.S. Ark Royal ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Sinking 1st section Mich. Cent. tunnel, Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sinking the mat, revetment work on the Missouri River, Cambridge, Mo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Detroit, Mich., sinking cast section of Michigan Central Railroad Company tunnel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Sinking

AuthorQuotation

Charles Dickens

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

James Russell Lowell

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

John C. Calhoun

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Sinking

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

To be delivered forthwith a covering undertaking in writing to issue when, but not until, the Commission is satisfied that Germany can meet such interest and sinking fund obligations, a further installment of 40,000,000,000 Marks gold 5 per cent. bearer bonds, the time and mode of payment of principal and interest to be determined by the Commission. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Sinking

TitleAuthorQuote

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

"This must be Thursday", said Arthur musing to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The wheels were still sinking and it had now become almost impossible for Madeleine to extricate himself.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The sun was sinking now, and the yellow sunlight fell on the Hooverville and on the willows behind it.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

The sinking sound of melting snow is heard in all dells, and the ice dissolves apace in the ponds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sinking

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Burma

The government allegedly refuses to document Burmese seafarers who are stranded abroad due to the sinking of their ship or bankruptcy of the ship owners. (references)

Liberia

In July journalist Alphonso Toweh charged that police at the port of Monrovia flogged him when he tried to report on the sinking of a cargo ship in the harbor. (references)

New Zealand

As part of this quota, in July the Government accepted more than 130 asylum seekers who were rescued from a sinking boat in international waters between Indonesia and Australia. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

American suppliers are particularly strong for the following equipment: tools for drilling (not rock drilling), pile-drivers and pile-extractors, self propelled boring and sinking machinery, parts of boring/sinking machinery, drill pipe of a kind used in drilling for oil and gas, other line pipe of a kind used for oil and gas pipelines, and floating or submersible drilling or production platforms. (references)

Indonesia

In 2000 (preliminary figures), the import value increased to $353 million, but US products' share decreased to 30%. American suppliers are particularly strong in the following areas: front end shovel loaders; pile-drivers and pile-extractors; coal or rock cutters and tunneling machinery; other continuous-action elevators; bulldozers; other bulldozers and angledozers; self-propelled boring or sinking machinery; buckets, shovels, grabs and gribs; other buckets, shovels, grabs and gribs of heading No. 84.29; parts of boring and sinking machinery; crushing and grinding machines for stones; and other crushing or grinding machines for stones. (references)

Political Economy

Ecuador

Given that Americans significantly propel the commerce of tourism, which is among Ecuador's major sources of revenue, safety inadequacies need to be addressed by the U.S. There is approximately one boat sinking a year that results in the accidental death of an American citizen, highlighting the need for increased U.S. involvement in Ecuadorian safety-regulatory policy and its enforcement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sinking

"Sinking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 69.90% of the time. "Sinking" is used about 587 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)69.9%41113,718
Noun (singular)15.31%9034,744
Adjective (general or positive)13.61%8037,112
Noun (proper)1.19%7133,076
                    Total100.00%587N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Sinking

Expressions using "sinking": feel sinking sinking and walling scaffold sinking feeling sinking fund sinking fund bond sinking head sinking platform sinking pump sinking spell Sinking Spring sinking stage the heart sinking within one well sinking. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sinking": sinking-fund loan, sinking-speak.

Ending with "sinking": die-sinking, heart-sinking, pre-sinking, slowly-sinking, well-sinking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sinking

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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149

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6

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135

boat picture sinking

6

titanic sinking picture

70

ship ships,sinking sinking

6

picture ship sinking

62

boat boats,sinking sinking

6

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56

sinking titanic titanic,sinking

6

photo ship sinking

43

sinking foundation

6

boat sinking

42

maine sinking

5

sinking the lusitania

30

funds sinking

5

fund sinking

22

pa sinking springs

5

sinking of the bismarck

14

edmund fitzgerald sinking

5

sinking venice

12

sinking valley country club

5

in picture quicksand sinking woman

12

cruise ship sinking

4

sinking spring pennsylvania

12

girl in quicksand sinking

4

in quicksand sinking woman

12

lusitania picture sinking

4

quicksand sinking

9

laconia sinking

4

in quicksand sinking

9

boat sail sinking

4

bismark sinking

8

lure sinking zelda

4

shaft sinking

7

sinking sourcing

3

floating and sinking

7

sinking titantic

3

new orleans is sinking

7

mud sinking

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sinking

Language Translations for "sinking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shpim (boring, drilling, jab, perforation, poke, prick, pricking, puncture, tingle), zhytje (absorption, dip, dipping, dive, diving, duck out, immersion, infusion, plunging, submergence), ulje (commutation, cut, cutback, decrease, degradation, depression, derogation, descent, diminution, disparagement, down, drop, falling, immersion, inclination, knee bend, landing, modulation, rebate, reduction, relaxation), fundosje (subsidence), dobësi (adynamia, anaemia, anemia, debility, delicacy, disease, failing, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, fragility, frailty, goneness, impotence, impotency, inanimation, inanition, inanity, infirmity, labefaction, languish, languor, laxness, leanness, limpness, malady, marasmus, reaction, tabescence, tenuity, vulnerability, washiness, weakness). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نسف (blast, blasting, blow up, blowing up, blowup, torpedo, torpedoing), ‏غرق سفينة (scuttle, shipwreck, sink), ‏غرق (deluge, dip, drown, drowning, eject, founder, go under, grub, relapse, shipwright, sink, submergence, swamp, wreck), ‏افول, ‏إنقباض الصدر, ‏إلتهام (swallowing), ‏إغراق (hyperbole, inundation). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стягане (clinch, clipping, constriction, gripe, locking), улягане (settling), снишаване, хлътване (sag, settling), затъване, амортизиране, прималяване, прилошаване (qualm), потъване (immersion, submergence, submersion, subsidence), потопяване (submergence), погасяване (acquittal, extinction, liquidation, paying up, quenching), погасителен (liquidating), падане духом (discouragement), издълбаване (excavation, incision). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

下沉 (Sank, sunk). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyèerpanost (goneness, tiredness), potopení (plunge, submergence). (various references)

   

Danish

  

spordannelse (sinkage), skibsbrud (shipwreck), sammensynkning (settlement, subsidence), sammenstyrtning (collapse, failure, rock failure), sammenbrud (breakdown, break-up, collapse, crash, crushing, failure, settlement, subsidence, trouble), saenkning (blood sedimentation test, depression, dropping, ptosis, sagging), sætning af terræn (settlement, subsidence), sætning (sentence), indstyrtning (collapse), brusende (cascading, down welling, downwelling). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schipbreuk (shipwreck), schachtdelven, verzakking (herniation, prolapsus, settlement, settling, structure depression, subsidence, subsiding area), inzakking (collapse, shake-out, shakeout of the market), ineenstorting (collapse), indrukking (indentation, indenting process, sinkage), duiking, cascade (cascade, cascade drop, cascade fall, cascading, down welling, downwelling, fall drop in series, full fall in series, ladder of drops, ladder of falls, steepped drop, stepped fall). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sortuminen (collapse, sloughing), vajoaminen (cascading, down welling, downwelling, subsidence), päällysveden laskeutuminen (cascading, down welling, downwelling), laskeva kangastus. (various references)

   

French

  

naufrage, affaissement. (various references)

   

German

  

versenkung (absorption, immersion, lowering, scuttling, trap, trapdoor), Senkung (counterbore, decline, decrease, dip, drop, fall, hollow, lowering, reduction, sag, sagging, settlement, subsidence, valley). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατάρρευση (break down, collapse, debacle), κατάδυση νερού (cascading, down welling, downwelling), κατακόρυφο θαλάσσιο ρεύμα (cascading, down welling, downwelling), καταβύθιση (submergence, submersion), καταβ?θιση (collapse), καθίζηση (caving, landslip, sedimentation), συνíζηση (collapse), βύθιση (immersion, plunge), εμβύθιση (immersion, sinkage). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משקע (deposit, depression, dregs, hole, pit, precipitate, residue, sediment, settling), שוקע (submerging), שקיע" (absorption, decadence, decline, degeneration, sag, sedimentation, settlement, subsidence), שקוע (bogged down, depression, immersed, immersing, precipitation, sedimentation, submerged, sunken, wrapped up in), "שתקעות (settlement), "טבע" (coining, impression, minting, stamping), טביע" (drowning), טבוע (drowned, inherent, submergence, sunken). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

süllyedõ, merülõ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

naufragio (downfall, failure, ruin, setting, shipwreck, wreck), avvallamento (dip, subsidence), affondamento (foundering, shipwreck). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

沈没 (foundering), 沈下 (subsidence). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

か"らく (capitulation, cheese, fall, merriment, pleasure, surrender), 'きち", ち"ぼつ (foundering), ち"か (extinguished, subsidence). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

침하. (various references)

   

Manx

  

sinkeil (founder, scupper, sink), goll sheese (decline, descending, descent, fall away, go down, pass down), goll (departure, disembark, go, going, passage, show out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inkingsay

   

Portuguese

  

desmoronamento (landslide, landslip, slide), afundamento (foundering, sinkage). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

slãbire bruscã, scufundare (ducking, souse, submergence), reducere (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, compression, contraction, curtailment, cut, deflation, degression, derogation, discount, dockage, drawback, drop, rebate, reduction, retrenchment), debilitate (adynamia, debility, feebleness, frailty, infirmity), cufundare (dip, dipping, duck, immersion), coborâre (declination, descent, dip, down, drop, fall, set down), afundare (dip, dive, ducking, immersion, plunge). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

осадка (draft, sag, settlement, upset), проходка (penetration), потопление, погружение (dip, dipping, diving, immersion, plunge, submergence, submersion). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sìoladh (filtering, straining). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

potapanje (dip, immersion, submergence, submersion). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hundimiento (downfall, sag, sagging, submergence, subsidence). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sugande känsla i magen, sjunkande (descent, drop, sag), sättning (composition, sag, settlement), sänkning (abatement, depression, droop), sänkande, nervällning (cascading, down welling, downwelling), nedvällning (cascading, down welling, downwelling), neddykning, kollaps (collapse). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zamanla azalan, yavaş yavaş kaybolan, yavaş yavaş ödeme, işlevini yitirme, halsizlik (debility, grogginess, infirmity, languor, lassitude, prostration, weakness), dermansızlık (atony, debility, decrepitude, exhaustion, senility), düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decline, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb, ebb tide, eclipse, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, spill, tumble), batma (burst up, decline, dip, failure, ingrowth, set, sting, submersion), batırma (immersion, jab, ruin, submersion), batış (bankruptcy, ruin, set, setting, submerging), azalan (decreasing, decrescent, diminishing, downward), amorti etme, amorti eden, açlıktan dermansızlık. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

осідання (sag, yield, yielding), занурення (dip, dipping, dive, diving, immersion, plunge, plunging, steep), проходка (piercing). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự tụt xuống, sự lún xuống (sag), sự chìm, sự đánh chìm sự hạ xuống. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sinking

Derivations

Words ending with "sinking": countersinking. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sinking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sankin, Sankong, senjin, sicking, silking, Sinfin, skining, Sunkyong. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sinking"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sinking" (pronounced si"ngking)
5-i" ng k i ngblinking, drinking, linking, plinking, rethinking, shrinking, stinking, unthinking, winking.
4-ng k i ngbanking, blanking, clanking, cranking, debunking, flanking, flunking, franking, honking, junking, nonbanking, planking, plunking, ranking, reinking, spanking, tanking, thanking, yanking.
3-k i ngaching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flicking, flocking, forking, forsaking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, plucking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shucking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tasking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sinking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-k-n-n-s"

-1 letter: inking, kinins, skiing.

-2 letters: ginks, kings, kinin.

-3 letters: gink, gins, inks, inns, king, kins, nisi, sign, sing, sink, skin.

-4 letters: gin, ink, inn, ins, kin, sin, ski.

-5 letters: in, is, si.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-i-k-n-n-s"
 

+1 letter: inklings, kingpins, pinkings, skeining, skinking, skinning, slinking, snicking, stinking, swinking.

 

+2 letters: antikings, kindlings, knittings, kyanising, shrinking, sickening, thinkings, tinklings.

 

+3 letters: kingliness, misknowing, shunpiking, snickering, sprinkling, stinkingly, twinklings, unsticking.

 

+4 letters: antismoking, folksinging, kinescoping, misthinking, noisemaking, painstaking, rainmakings, shunpikings, sickeningly, sprinklings, thickenings, winemakings.

 

+5 letters: besprinkling, bookbindings, folksingings, kinglinesses, knightliness, linebackings, misreckoning, noisemakings, nonthinkings, painstakings, preshrinking, printmakings, thanksgiving, thinkingness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sinking


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 69 6E 6B 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ..    -.    -.-    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101001 01101110 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#105 &#110 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0069 006E 006B 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53758077758073

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Sinking"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتانarabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatieholandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, holland, olandese, 네덜란", Ollanish, Germaanish, holandês, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, holländsk, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã"

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutosfinlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, ‏اللغة الفنلندية, ‏فنلندية, ‏فنلندي, фински език, фински, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm

Hebrew

אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתקhebraishte, ‏اليهودية, ‏اللغة العبرية, ‏يهودي, ‏عبري, ‏العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, joods, Hebreeuws, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, ヘブライ語 , ヘブライ", Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей, người Hê-brơ

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás‏مجري, ‏المجري, ‏الهنغاري, ‏هنغاري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione‏الإيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏إيطالي, ‏شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 japonez, ‏يابانية, ‏ياباني, ‏اليابانية, ‏اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, יפ י, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonês, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょjaponez, ‏يابانية, ‏ياباني, ‏اليابانية, ‏اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, יפ י, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonês, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець, người Nhật bản tiếng Nhật bản

Korean

사 , 의, 번역korean, ‏اللغة الكورية, ‏كوري جنوبي, ‏كوري شمالي, ‏كوري, корейски език, корейски, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejec, korejština, korejský, Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, limba coreeanã, coreean, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtgjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, rumæner, Roemeens, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, russer, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga

Scottish

foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachanskocez, шотландски, 苏 兰, skotský, Schots, skotlantilainen, écossais, schottisch, σκωτσέζικο, σκωτικόσ, skót, scozzese, 스"틀랜", Albinagh, escocês, scoţian, шотландский, škotski jezik, škotski, škotlanđani, escocés, skotsk, iskoçyalı, шотланський, шотландський діалект, шотландці

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningsuedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisht, ukrainas, ‏أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, ‏الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, 乌克兰, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, Oekraïens, ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnameser, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", 트남, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тн