"sinker" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsɪŋkə(ɹ)/ Audio: En-au-sinker.ogg [Australia] Forms: sinkers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ) Etymology: sink + -er. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|sink|-er|id2=agent noun}} sink + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} sinker (plural sinkers)
  1. One who sinks something.
    Sense id: en-sinker-en-noun-41LUCdng
  2. (fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink. Categories (topical): Fishing Translations (weight used in fishing): μολύβδαινα (molúbdaina) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), грузі́ла (hruzíla) [neuter] (Belarusian), тежест (težest) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 吊錘 (Chinese Mandarin), 吊锤 (diàochuí) (Chinese Mandarin), 沉子 (chénzi) (Chinese Mandarin), paino (Finnish), plomb [masculine] (French), chumbo [masculine] (Galician), chumbada [collective, feminine] (Galician), Bleigewicht (english: lead sinker) [neuter] (German), オモリ (omori) (Japanese), 重り (omori) (alt: おもり) (Japanese), о́лово (ólovo) [neuter] (Macedonian), māhē (Maori), maihea (Maori), karihi (Maori), mōtū (Maori), ciężarek [masculine] (Polish), chumbo (Portuguese), chumbinho (Portuguese), chumbada (Portuguese), грузи́ло (gruzílo) [neuter] (Russian), грузи́ло (hruzýlo) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-sinker-en-noun-o~810boe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 10 22 30 3 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 7 19 18 26 8 22 Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'weight used in fishing': 1 71 4 15 4 5
  3. (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. Categories (topical): Baseball Related terms (baseball pitches): curveball, slider, cut fastball, two-seam fastball, split-finger fastball, screwball, knuckleball Translations (baseball pitch): シンカー (shinkā) (Japanese), спу́штена то́пка (spúštena tópka) [feminine] (Macedonian), си́нкер (sínker) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-sinker-en-noun-CrmeCy~U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 10 22 30 3 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 7 19 18 26 8 22 Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'baseball pitches': 4 13 59 6 10 7 Disambiguation of 'baseball pitch': 1 11 68 5 10 4
  4. (construction) A sinker nail, used for framing in current construction. Categories (topical): Construction
    Sense id: en-sinker-en-noun-zbeNHhrK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 10 22 30 3 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 7 19 18 26 8 22 Topics: business, construction, manufacturing
  5. (slang) A doughnut; a biscuit. Tags: slang Translations ((slang) doughnut; biscuit): донът (donǎt) [masculine] (Bulgarian), поничка (ponička) [feminine] (Bulgarian), кро́фна (krófna) [feminine] (Macedonian), по́нчик (pónčik) [masculine] (Russian), ола́дья (oládʹja) (english: thick pancake) [feminine] (Russian), пирожо́к (pirožók) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-sinker-en-noun-8ev7hqn~ Disambiguation of '(slang) doughnut; biscuit': 2 4 5 3 82 4
  6. In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
    Sense id: en-sinker-en-noun-RzpkozFn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 10 22 30 3 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 7 19 18 26 8 22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: jack-sinker, tanksinker, well sinker

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2001, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862, page 148",
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      },
      "expansion": "sink + -er",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "sink + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sinkers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "sense": "baseball pitches",
      "word": "curveball"
    },
    {
      "sense": "baseball pitches",
      "word": "slider"
    },
    {
      "sense": "baseball pitches",
      "word": "cut fastball"
    },
    {
      "sense": "baseball pitches",
      "word": "two-seam fastball"
    },
    {
      "sense": "baseball pitches",
      "word": "split-finger fastball"
    },
    {
      "sense": "baseball pitches",
      "word": "screwball"
    },
    {
      "sense": "baseball pitches",
      "word": "knuckleball"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, David Frank, J.B. McLachlan: A Biography",
          "text": "McLachlan's value as a coal miner was enhanced by the specialized skill he learned as a shaft-sinker.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who sinks something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sink",
          "sink"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Fishing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Hook the sinker onto this loop.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous",
          "text": "Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fishing",
          "fishing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "weight",
          "weight"
        ],
        [
          "fishing",
          "fishing"
        ],
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "net",
          "net"
        ],
        [
          "sink",
          "sink"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fishing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Baseball"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "two-seam fastball",
          "two-seam fastball"
        ],
        [
          "split-finger fastball",
          "split-finger fastball"
        ],
        [
          "forkball",
          "forkball"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Construction"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sinker nail, used for framing in current construction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "construction",
          "construction"
        ],
        [
          "sinker nail",
          "sinker nail"
        ],
        [
          "framing",
          "framing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(construction) A sinker nail, used for framing in current construction."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "construction",
        "manufacturing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel, page 268",
          "text": "Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862, page 148",
          "text": "they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man, page 168",
          "text": "\"Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew,\" Jason Biggs said, grinning.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A doughnut; a biscuit."
      ],
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        [
          "doughnut",
          "doughnut"
        ],
        [
          "biscuit",
          "biscuit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A doughnut; a biscuit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɪŋkə(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪŋkə(ɹ)"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fc/En-au-sinker.ogg/En-au-sinker.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/En-au-sinker.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "hruzíla",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "грузі́ла"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "težest",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тежест"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "吊錘"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "diàochuí",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "吊锤"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chénzi",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "沉子"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "paino"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plomb"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chumbo"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "collective",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chumbada"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "lead sinker",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Bleigewicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "molúbdaina",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μολύβδαινα"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "omori",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "オモリ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おもり",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "omori",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "重り"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ólovo",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "о́лово"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "māhē"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "maihea"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "karihi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "mōtū"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ciężarek"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "chumbo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "chumbinho"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "word": "chumbada"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gruzílo",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "грузи́ло"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hruzýlo",
      "sense": "weight used in fishing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "грузи́ло"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shinkā",
      "sense": "baseball pitch",
      "word": "シンカー"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "spúštena tópka",
      "sense": "baseball pitch",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "спу́штена то́пка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sínker",
      "sense": "baseball pitch",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "си́нкер"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "donǎt",
      "sense": "(slang) doughnut; biscuit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "донът"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ponička",
      "sense": "(slang) doughnut; biscuit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "поничка"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "krófna",
      "sense": "(slang) doughnut; biscuit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кро́фна"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pónčik",
      "sense": "(slang) doughnut; biscuit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "по́нчик"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "thick pancake",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oládʹja",
      "sense": "(slang) doughnut; biscuit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ола́дья"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pirožók",
      "sense": "(slang) doughnut; biscuit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пирожо́к"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sinker"
}

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