From en.wiktionary.org:
[sink hole]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], equivalent to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en] - [en] - [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water , serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage. 2. * [en] 3. A depress ed area in which waste or drainage collects. 4. [en] A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it. 5. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1997 | journal=Windows magazine | volume=8 | issue=1-3 |passage=_Pro Pinball_ is as authentic as pinball has ever been on the PC. It's all here, from the ramps, bumpers and SINKHOLES to the satisfying "clack" when you make the high-score list.}}
1. [en] A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website. 2. [en] An attack which redirect s request s, whether network or memory access es, to a new location define d by the attacker .
**** Translations
[geology: hole formed in soluble rock]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] - Armenian: [hy] - Basque: [eu] - Catalan: [ca] , [ca] - Chinese: - Dutch: [nl] - Esperanto: [eo] - Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] - French: [fr] , [fr] - German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] - Greek: [el] - Hebrew: [he] - Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga] , [ga] - Italian: [it] , [it] - Japanese: [ja] - Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] - Latvian: [lv] - Lithuanian: [lt] - Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] - Maori: [mi] - Norman: [nrf] [Jersey] - Norwegian: - Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] - Portuguese: [pt] - Romanian: [ro] - Russian: [ru] , [ru] - Serbo-Croatian: [sh] - Slovene: [sl] - Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] - Swedish: [sv] , [sv] - Thai: [th] - Turkish: [tr] , [tr] - Vietnamese: [vi] - Welsh: [cy] [trans-bottom]
[depressed area in which water collects]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] - Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca] - Chinese: - Finnish: [fi] , [fi] - Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] - German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] - Japanese: [ja] - Maori: [mi] - Polish: [pl] - Russian: [ru] - Spanish: [es] - Turkish: [tr] [trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To configure as a sinkhole [domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses] .
*** References
- [R:Lexico] [en]