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Sink

To fall by or as by the force of gravity to descend lower and lower to decline gradually to subside as a stone sinks in water waves rise and sink the sun sinks in the west...

Sink, with all its grammatical variation and cognate expressions, includes, in relation to a well, and digging, drilling or boring of a well or deepening of an existing well. [West Bengal Ground Water Resources (Management Control and Regulation) Act, 2005, s. 2(f)]...

Sinking fund

Sinking fund. A fund formed for the redemption of a debt by the periodical accumulation of fixed amounts by the borrower....

Baumeacute

Designating or conforming to either of the scales used by the French chemist Antoine Baumeacute in the graduation of his hydrometers of or relating to Baumeacutes scales or hydrometers There are two Baumeacute hydrometers One which is used with liquids heavier than water sinks to 0deg in pure water and to 15deg in a 15 per cent salt solution the other for liquids lighter than water sinks to 0deg in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10deg in pure water In both cases the graduation based on the distance between these fundamental points is continued along the stem as far as desired...

Bog

To sink as into a bog to submerge in a bog to cause to sink and stick as in mud and mire...

drainboard

a board beside a kitchen sink having a surface inclined so as to drain into the sink...

Flotation process

A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking the others flowing off in a film or slime on the surface though perhaps having a greater specific gravity than those that sink...

Subsidence

Subsidence, means where the perils insured against are 'subsidence and/or collapse' the word 'subsidence' herein means 'sinking', that is to say, movement in a vertical direction as opposed to settlement' which means movement in lateral directions. In a proper context, the word 'subsidence' may mean both sinking as well as settlement, Bimla Charan Batabyal v. Indian Museum Trustees, 57 Cal 231: 1930 Cal 404....

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