Sinker meaning

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One that sinks, as a weight used for sinking fishing lines or nets.
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(slang) A doughnut.
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(baseball) A sinkerball.
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A person or thing that sinks.
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A lead weight used in fishing.
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(informal) A doughnut.
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(baseball) A pitched ball that drops downward sharply as it reaches home plate.
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(fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.

Hook the sinker onto this loop.

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(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.

His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.

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(construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
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(slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.
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In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
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Origin of sinker

  • sink + -er.

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Sinker Sentence Examples

  • The determination in the case of solids lighter than water is effected by the introduction of a sinker, i.e.

  • Nitzsch, Dillmann, Ritschl and Sinker are convinced that the book was not a translation but was written originally in Greek.

  • If W be the weight of the experimental solid in air, w the weight of the sinker in water, and W, the weight of the solid plus sinker in water, then the relative density is given by W/(W+w - Wi).

  • A number 10 line weighs the same whether its a fast sinker or a floater.

  • - Sinker, Testamenta XII Patriarcharum (1869); [this work gives b in the text and a in the footnotes; subsequently (1879) Sinker issued an Appendix with variations from cg]; Charles, The Greek Versions of the Testaments of the XII.

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