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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Daily life , Visual inkink1 /ɪŋk/ ●くろまる●くろまる○しろまる noun 1 [countable, uncountable]TCD a coloured liquid that you use for writing, printing, or drawing Please write in black ink.2 [uncountable]HBF the black liquid in sea creatures such as octopus es and squid Examples from the Corpusink• Printing in black tends to be the least expensive as it does not mean that the machinery needs cleaning of black ink.• Carkesse believed that madmen vent their rage by words on air, poets by ink on paper.• Her name, Beulah, is printed in green ink on a heart-shaped name tag.• There being no ink left in the pen, Pooley had pierced the points of his speculation through with defunct matchsticks.• Always choose a permanent ink rather than buying the cheapest you can find.• He worked on a Diners Club card, removing the ink on the raised letters with a Q-tip doused in polyester resin.• But why do I waste ink telling you this? in ... ink• A spell is still a spell even when imprisoned temporarily in parchment and ink.• Be-side their names he wrote curses in red ink.• Her name, Beulah, is printed in green ink on a heart-shaped name tag.• I have had a reference to bovine excrement splashed in red ink across an entire manuscript page.• On something like paper, drawn in something like ink.• Vietcong couriers slipped into Saigon to pick up his reports, which he wrote in invisible ink made from starch. Related topics: Visual inkink2 verb [transitive] 1 CAVto put ink on something2 WRITEto make a document, agreement etc official and legal by writing your signature on it The two companies have inked a deal. → ink something ↔ in → See Verb table Examples from the Corpusink• The number was inked on the side of his helmet.• However ferociously we ink over our first thoughts, history finds a way of reading them.From Longman Business Dictionaryinkink /ɪŋk/ verb [transitive] to sign an agreement, contract etcThe two companies have inked a deal.→ See Verb table Origin ink1 (1200-1300) Old French enque, from Late Latin encaustum, from Greek enkaiein "to burn in"
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Verb table
ink
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they ink
he, she, it inks
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they inked
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have inked
he, she, it has inked
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had inked
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will ink
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have inked
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Continuous Form
Present
I am inking
he, she, it is inking
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you, we, they are inking
Past
I, he, she, it was inking
you, we, they were inking
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have been inking
he, she, it has been inking
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been inking
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be inking
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been inking
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