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sink back |
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sinker
| sinkhole
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| sinking feeling
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sinker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sinker has 3 senses
- sinker(n = noun.food) donut, doughnut - a small ring-shaped friedcake; Array is a kind of friedcake
- sinker(n = noun.artifact) Array - a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water); Array is a kind of weight
- sinker(n = noun.act) Array - a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate; Array is a kind of delivery, pitch
has particulars: raised doughnut
Derived form verb sink4
CIDE DICTIONARY
sinker, n.
One who, or that which, sinks. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sinker, n.
1 a weight used to sink a fishing-line or sounding-line.
2 US a doughnut.
1 a weight used to sink a fishing-line or sounding-line.
2 US a doughnut.
THESAURUS
sinker
Brussels biscuit, Melba toast, apple fritter, beignet, beignet aux pommes, biscuit, bismarck, bob, bowl, cast, change of pace, change-up, chuck, chunk, cracker, cruller, curve, doughnut, downcurve, fastball, fastnacht, fling, flip, forward pass, friedcake, fritter, graham cracker, hardtack, heave, hurl, incurve, knuckleball, lateral, lateral pass, lead, lob, olykoek, outcurve, pass, peg, pilot biscuit, pitch, plumb, plummet, pretzel, put, raised doughnut, rusk, saltine, sandbag, screwball, sea biscuit, serve, service, ship biscuit, shot-put, shy, slider, sling, soda cracker, spitball, spitter, throw, toss, twister, upcurve, wafer, weight, zwieback
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