The difference between Descend and Sink

When used as verbs, descend means to pass from a higher to a lower place, whereas sink means to descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.

Sink is also noun with the meaning: a basin used for holding water for washing.

check bellow for the other definitions of Descend and Sink

  1. Descend as a verb (intransitive):

    To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward

    Examples:

    "The rain descended, and the floods came."

    "We will here descend to matters of later date.'' rfdatek Fuller"

  2. Descend as a verb (intransitive, poetic):

    To enter mentally; to retire.

  3. Descend as a verb (intransitive, with {{m, on):

    or }} To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.

    Examples:

    "And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.'' rfdatek Alexander Pope"

  4. Descend as a verb (intransitive):

    To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase oneself

    Examples:

    "he descended from his high estate"

  5. Descend as a verb (intransitive):

    To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

  6. Descend as a verb (intransitive):

    To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance.

    Examples:

    "The beggar may descend from a prince."

    "A crown descends to the heir."

  7. Descend as a verb (intransitive, astronomy):

    To move toward the south, or to the southward.

  8. Descend as a verb (intransitive, music):

    To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

  9. Descend as a verb (transitive):

    To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of

    Examples:

    "they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder"

    "But never tears his cheek descended.'' rfdatek Byron"

  1. 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."

  2. 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"

  3. Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):

    To conceal and appropriate.

  4. Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):

    To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

  5. Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):

    To reduce or extinguish by payment.

    Examples:

    "to sink the national debt"

  6. Sink as a verb (intransitive):

    To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

  7. Sink as a verb (intransitive):

    To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

  1. Sink as a noun:

    A basin used for holding water for washing

  2. Sink as a noun:

    A drain for carrying off wastewater

  3. Sink as a noun (geology):

    A sinkhole

  4. Sink as a noun:

    A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet

  5. Sink as a noun:

    A heat sink

  6. Sink as a noun:

    A place that absorbs resources or energy

  7. Sink as a noun (baseball):

    The motion of a sinker pitch

    Examples:

    "Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink."

  8. Sink as a noun (computing, programming):

    An object or callback that captures events; event sink

  9. Sink as a noun (graph theory):

    a destination vertex in a transportation network

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