different between sinking vs annihilation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??k??/
• Rhymes: -??k??

Verb

sinking

1. present participle of sink

Derived terms

• like rats from a sinking ship

Noun

sinking (plural sinkings)

1. The process by which something sinks.

   I witnessed the sinking of my ship from the shore.

   • 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection

     We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district […]

Anagrams

• inkings

English

Etymology

From Middle French annihilation, from Latin ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”).Morphologically annihilate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??na?.??le?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: an?ni?hi?la?tion

Noun

annihilation (countable and uncountable, plural annihilations)

1. The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence
2. The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it

3. The state of being annihilated.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.

4. (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

Synonyms

• (act of reducing to nothing): extinction, eradication
• (state of being annihilated): extinction

Antonyms

• (act of reducing to nothing): creation, generation
• (state of being annihilated): generation

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• annihilation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• annihilation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• annihilation at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

annihiler +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.i.la.sj??/

Noun

annihilation f (plural annihilations)

1. annihilation

References

• “annihilation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).