sin¹ /sin/

1. Moral offence or shortcoming, esp from the point of view of religion
2. The condition of offending in this way
3. An offence generally
4. A shame or pity (old informal)

To commit sin (often with against)

1. To commit
2. To burden with sin (as in sin one's soul)
3. To bring, drive, or render by sin (hence sin one's mercies to be ungrateful)

sinˈful adjective

1. Tainted with sin
2. Wicked
3. Involving sin
4. Morally wrong

sinˈfully adverb

sinˈfulness noun

sinˈless adjective

sinˈlessly adverb

sinˈlessness noun

sinnˈer noun

sin bin noun

1. (in ice hockey, etc) an enclosure to which a player is sent for a statutory length of time when suspended from a game for unruly behaviour
2. A room or other place to which disruptive school pupils are sent

sinˈ-bin transitive verb

To send (a person) to the sin bin

sinˈ-eater noun (historical)

A person who by eating bread and salt at a funeral was supposed to take upon himself the sins of the dead person, so that the soul might be delivered from purgatory

sinˈ-eating adjective

sinˈ-offering noun

A sacrifice in expiation of sin

sin tax noun (informal)

A tax levied on items such as cigarettes and alcohol

live in sin (old)

To cohabit without being married

original sin see under origin

sinner it (Pope)

To act as a sinner

sin² or sin’ /sin/

Since

long sin (Spenser)

For a long time in the past

pararhyme /parˈə-rīm/

A form of rhyme in which the consonants, but not the vowel, of the last stressed syllable are identical in sound, as in sun and sin

shin² /shēn/ or sin /sēn/

The twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet

sine¹ /sīn/ (mathematics)

1. One of the six trigonometrical functions of an angle, the ratio in a right-angled triangle of the side opposite the angle to the hypotenuse (abbrev sin)
2. Orig the perpendicular from one end of an arc to the diameter through the other

sinical /sinˈi-kl/ adjective

sine curve noun

A curve showing the relationship between the size of an angle and its sine, a sinusoid

sine wave noun

Any oscillation whose graphical representation is a sine curve

sinh /shīn or sīn-āchˈ/

Hyperbolic sine (see hyperbolic functions under hyper-)

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