In the context of thermal dissipation, what is the past tense of "sink?"

If I put a heatsink on a component right now, I am "heatsinking." If I put it on yesterday, did I "heatsank," or have I "heatsinked?" Is yesterday's component "heatsunken?"

 

My two cents:
Sink is both a verb--the action of something submerging--and a noun--a thing in the kitchen into which you put water or a thing that is the destination for something, such as heat.

In the context of heat dissipation, sink and heatsink are nouns, so wouldn't be conjugated.

OTOH, I don't ordinarily spend much time with people who put heatsinks on components, so I might be missing out on some usage where "heatsink" is used as a verb. Are there people who say "I've overclocked my new processor and I'm going to heatsink it."?

 

'Are there people who say "I've overclocked my new processor and I'm going to heatsink it."?'

Verbing a noun is quite common; the propriety thereof is open to question!

Informally, I would probably use "heatsinked", unless I was going for (low) humor in which I would use heatsank or heatsunk. Formally, I would use "applied a heatsink."

FWIW,
--Rich

 

That is a good question. But since the word "heatsink" is a noun, it is not correct to say that on object was "heatsank" or "heatsunk", and in a conversation it looks like a fire started inside a ship, and therefore the ship "heatsunk".

"Heatsinked" is more admissible. "Plug" is a noun too and it is admissible to say that we have "plugged" something into. However, using a noun as a verb is not correct. As RiJoRI said, you are better off saying that you "applied an heatsink".

 

More often, usage is like "I put it on a sink/heatsink", or "are you going to sink it?". I don't recall hearing the term used as a verb except in the present tense.

 

"Googled" Heatsank -this was the first result.
Googled Heatsunk - Seems like some others have used this term.

Google is a noun turned to verb, I believe one reason we see -ed suffix to nouns to be used as verbs(though informally) might be because there isn't a possible alternative as we have in case of sink to sank.

Heatsink-ed? Heatsink-fied?

 

Heatsinked is good, molten is bad.

 

In English, all nouns can be made into verbs. Heatsink (n) as a verb (to heatsink) is apparently a regular verb, i.e, heatsinked. In the second person singular, it would be thou heatsinkest. (See: Wikipedia project on conjugation of verbs).

That's my take. John

 

In English, all nouns can be made into verbs. Heatsink (n) as a verb (to heatsink) is apparently a regular verb, i.e, heatsinked. In the second person singular, it would be thou heatsinkest. (See: Wikipedia project on conjugation of verbs).

That's my take. John

And he/she/it heatsinketh, if we're following the King James conjugation.

 

In English, all nouns can be made into verbs.

In fact, nouns can be made into other nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc., to your heart's content.

A book I read several years ago made light of this tendency in some people:

"We all know the tremendous impactization technology has had on our modern society," he [Dr. King] said. "Impactization?" Chuck said . . . "I thought 'impact' was a verb." "It is," Sarah said. "And once, back in the Late Cretaceous, it was a noun."
Connie Willis, "In the Late Cretaceous" (1991)​

It affectualized me so much that I wrote down some of the other gems I found in this book.

• transformizing
• innovationary
• instructionary
• relevantness
• ideating
• datatizing
• educationing (really!)
• embarkate
• reassessmentize
• initiatory
• encompassate

 

Clearly this is a more complex question than I thought it would be. I'll read up on "regular verbs."

Or would that more properly be "I shalleth readeth uppeth upon mine verbs of most excellent regularity, even unto an understanding most heavenly, heretowith all scales shalleth falleth from mine eyes, verily even though I predicteth such in a sentence most run-on?"

 

Or would that more properly be "I shalleth readeth uppeth upon mine verbs of most excellent regularity, even unto an understanding most heavenly, heretowith all scales shalleth falleth from mine eyes, verily even though I predicteth such in a sentence most run-on?"

LOL!!!i think even Shakespeare will laugh at that..

 

...
It affectualized me so much that I wrote down some of the other gems I found in this book.

*transformizing
*innovationary
*instructionary
*relevantness
*ideating
*datatizing
*educationing (really!)
*embarkate
*reassessmentize
*initiatory
*encompassate

Oh man, all those words tripped my BS detector big time! E.g., someone using "relevantness" instead of "relevance" indicates either they are prone to group-think and "buzz-wording" , or they have a poor command of the English language.

Disenchantificatedly,
--Rich

 

Sounds like the prez's vocabulary list.

 

• initiatory

"Initiatory" is a genuine adjective. It describes those things having to do with initiation. I.E. initiatory ritual or initiatory tests. Was the term perhaps used incorrectly in place of "initial?"

 

Sounds like the prez's vocabulary list.

Never thought that the prez had a vocabulary list. He is really an humble man since he doesn't show its great knowledge to the world.

By the way, isn't Sanksunk a Korean vessel manufacturer. I think they manufacture TVs too.

 

"Initiatory" is a genuine adjective. It describes those things having to do with initiation. I.E. initiatory ritual or initiatory tests. Was the term perhaps used incorrectly in place of "initial?"

Yes. And the point the writer was trying to make is that all of the words listed could have been replaced by "real" words that were shorter.

 

But the shorter real words would not have displayified the intellectuality of the speaker!