The difference between Decrease and Sink
When used as nouns, decrease means an amount by which a quantity is decreased, whereas sink means a basin used for holding water for washing.
When used as verbs, decrease means of a quantity, to become smaller, whereas sink means to descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
check bellow for the other definitions of Decrease and Sink
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Decrease as a verb (intransitive):
Of a quantity, to become smaller.
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Decrease as a verb (transitive):
To make (a quantity) smaller.
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Decrease as a noun:
An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
Examples:
"One research team has recorded Baishui’s decrease at about 27 meters per year over the last 10 years.'' [[File:One research team has recorded Baishui’s decrease.ogg]]"
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Decrease as a noun (knitting):
A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See .
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Sink as a verb (physical):
To move or be moved into something. To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight. To push (something) into something. To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
Examples:
"A stone sinks in water.  nowrap The sun gradually sank in the west."
"The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.  nowrap The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg."
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Sink as a verb (social):
To diminish or be diminished. To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression. To cause to decline; to depress or degrade. To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
Examples:
"to sink one's reputation"
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Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):
To conceal and appropriate.
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Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):
To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
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Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):
To reduce or extinguish by payment.
Examples:
"to sink the national debt"
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Sink as a verb (intransitive):
To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
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Sink as a verb (intransitive):
To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
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Sink as a noun:
A basin used for holding water for washing
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Sink as a noun:
A drain for carrying off wastewater
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Sink as a noun (geology):
A sinkhole
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Sink as a noun:
A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
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Sink as a noun:
A heat sink
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Sink as a noun:
A place that absorbs resources or energy
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Sink as a noun (baseball):
The motion of a sinker pitch
Examples:
"Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink."
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Sink as a noun (computing, programming):
An object or callback that captures events; event sink
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Sink as a noun (graph theory):
a destination vertex in a transportation network
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