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ink

noun
/ˈɪŋk/

Etymology

From Middle English ynke, from Old French enque, from Latin encaustum (“purple ink used by Roman emperors to sign documents”), from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston, “burned-in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + καίω (kaíō, “burn”). In this sense, displaced native Old English blæc (“ink”, literally “black”). Sense four refers to the ink used in newspapers.

  1. derived from ἔγκαυστον — “burned-in”
  2. derived from encaustum — “purple ink used by Roman emperors to sign documents”
  3. derived from enque
  4. inherited from ynke

Definitions

  1. A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.

    • This form should be filled out in ink.
    • Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.

  2. A particular type, color or container of this fluid.

  3. The black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy.

    • Experimentally, some ink has been shown to be unpalatable to fish (Wood et al. 2010) and observationally, ink can also function as an attractant to predators to give cephalopods a bit more time to escape.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Publicity.

      • to get ink
      • The TSA has been getting a lot of ink lately.
      • [Judith] Hope […] has been getting ink by the barrelful with her regular interviews quoting conversations with the first lady, on subjects ranging from Senate ambitions to summer and post-White House living arrangements.

    2. Tattoo work.

      • "I saw it hanging on the wall of a tattoo hut where I went to get some ink done ten years ago," he stuttered, flushing in splotches and squirming in his chair.
      • Now he's getting a tattoo / Yeah, he's getting ink done / He asked for a 13, / But they drew a 31

    3. Cheap red wine.

    4. To apply ink to

      To apply ink to; to cover or smear with ink.

      • A plain impression is obtained by pressing the bulb of the finger, with the plane of the nail parallel to the plane of the plate, on the inked plate and then on the paper in the same manner.

    5. To sign (a contract or similar document).

      • Before Musk, America’s space industry was moribund. In 2011, NASA mothballed the last space shuttle, after inking a deal with SpaceX to make uncrewed cargo resupply runs to the International Space Station (ISS).

    6. To apply a tattoo to (someone).

    7. to eject ink (sense 3)

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Derived

before the ink had time to dry, before the ink was dry, bioink, black as ink, bleed red ink, China ink, deink, digital ink, don't dip your pen in company ink, e-ink, gall-nut ink, gay as pink ink, green-ink brigade, green ink brigade, green-ink letter, India ink, Indian ink, inkable, ink ball, inkball, inkberry, ink-block, inkblot, ink bomb, ink bottle, inkbrush, inkbush, ink-cap, inkcap, ink cartridge, ink converter, ink disease, inkdot, ink-dot, ink dot, inken, inker, ink eradicator, ink eraser, inkfish · +61 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ink. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ink. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at ink

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA