What does SIN mean?

Definitions for SIN
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sin, sinfulness, wickednessnoun

    estrangement from god

  2. sin, sinningnoun

    an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will

  3. sine, sinnoun

    ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

  4. Sinnoun

    (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

  5. sinnoun

    the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

  6. sin, hellverb

    violent and excited activity

    "they began to fight like sin"

  7. sin, transgress, trespassverb

    commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

  8. drop the ball, sin, blunder, boob, goofverb

    commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake

    "I blundered during the job interview"

Wiktionary

  1. sinnoun

    A violation of a moral or religious law; an error.

  2. sinnoun

    A misdeed.

  3. sinverb

    To commit a sin.

  4. sinnoun

    A letter of the Hebrew alphabet;

  5. sinnoun

    A letter of the Arabic alphabet;

  6. Sinnoun

    The god of the moon in Sumerian mythology.

  7. Etymology: From sīnaz, from seinos, genitive of. Cognate with sin, sin (sin), zijn, sin (sein), sínn, se. More at the.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sinnoun

    Etymology: syn , Saxon.

    How hast thou the heart,
    Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
    A sin absolver, and my friend profest,
    To mangle me with that word banishment. William Shakespeare.

    But those that sleep, and think not on their sins,
    Pinch them. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

    Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man. Tob. iii. 14.

    Sin, death, and hell, have set their marks upon him,
    And all their ministers attend on him. William Shakespeare.

    Dishonest shame
    Of nature’s works: honour dishonourable!
    Sin-bred! how have ye troubled all mankind? John Milton.

    Is there no means, but that a sin-sick land
    Should be let blood with such a boist’rous hand? Daniel.

    Vice or virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world: sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world. Isaac Watts, Logick.

    Light from her thought, as summer’s careless robe,
    Fell each affection of this sin-worn globe. Henry Brooke.

    Thy ambition,
    Thou scarlet sin, robb’d this bewailing land
    Of noble Buckingham'. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

  2. To Sinverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Stand in awe and sin not. Psalms iv. 4.

    Many also have perish’d, err’d, and sinn ’d for women. Esdr.

    He shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. 1 John v. 16.

    I am a man,
    More sinn’d against than sinning. William Shakespeare.

    And who but wishes to invert the laws
    Of order, sins against th’ eternal cause. Alexander Pope, Essay on Man.

Wikipedia

  1. Sin

    In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of God. Each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to commit a sin. While sins are generally considered actions, any thought, word, or act considered immoral, selfish, shameful, harmful, or alienating might be termed "sinful".

ChatGPT

  1. sin

    The sine (sin) is a trigonometric function of an angle. In a right triangle, it is the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the hypotenuse. It is also defined for complex numbers, where it represents a periodic oscillation. Additionally, sine can be graphically represented as a wave-like function in the Cartesian coordinate system. It's used in various fields such as mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sin

    old form of Since

  2. Sinnoun

    transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission

  3. Sinnoun

    an offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners

  4. Sinnoun

    a sin offering; a sacrifice for sin

  5. Sinnoun

    an embodiment of sin; a very wicked person

  6. Sinnoun

    to depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against

  7. Sinnoun

    to violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress

  8. Etymology: [OE. sinnen, singen, sinegen, AS. syngian. See Sin, n.]

Wikidata

  1. Sin

    In Abrahamic contexts, sin is the act of violating God's will. Sin can also be viewed as anything that violates the ideal relationship between an individual and God. Sin has been defined as "to miss the mark" Some crimes are regarded as sins and some sins are regarded as greater than others. In this nuanced concept of sin, sins fall in a spectrum from minor errors to deadly misdeeds. Catholicism regards the least corrupt sins as venial sins—which are part of human living and carry immediate consequences on earth, and, if unrepented for, more painful purgation, assuming the person is destined to heaven, as it is written in the formation letter "Purgatory", "most of the early Fathers of the Church speak of a cleansing fire, though we cannot tell whether this means actual or spiritual fire." Conversely, sins of great evil are mortal sins—which bring the consequence of eternal maximal separation from God, the state more so than place, called hell. Sins of careless living are considered destructive and lead to greater sins according to the Seven Deadly Sins. Another concept of sin deals with things that exist on Earth but not in Heaven. Food, for example, while a necessary good for the body, is not of transcendental living and therefore its excessive savoring is considered a sin.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sin

    sin, adv. (Spens.) since. [Since.]

  2. Sin

    sin, n. wilful violation of law: neglect of duty: neglect of the laws of morality and religion, any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God: wickedness, iniquity.—v.i. to commit sin: to violate or neglect the laws of morality or religion: to do wrong:—pr.p sin′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. sinned.—adjs. Sin′-born, born of sin; Sin′-bred, produced by sin.—ns. Sin′-eat′er, one of a class of men formerly employed in Wales to eat a piece of bread and drink a cup of ale placed on a bier, and so symbolically take upon themselves the sins of the deceased—due to the notion of the Levitical scapegoat (Levit. xvi. 21, 22); Sin′-eat′ing.—adj. Sin′ful, full of, or tainted with, sin: iniquitous: wicked: depraved: criminal: unholy.—adv. Sin′fully.—n. Sin′fulness.—adj. Sin′less, without sin: innocent: pure: perfect.—adv. Sin′lessly.—ns. Sin′lessness; Sin′ner, one who sins: an offender or criminal: (theol.) an unregenerate person.—v.i. (Pope) to act as a sinner (with indefinite it).—n. Sin′-off′ering, an offering for, or sacrifice in expiation of, sin.—adjs. Sin′-sick, morally sick from sin; Sin′-worn, worn by sin.—Like sin (slang), very much, very hard; Mortal, or Deadly, sin, such as wilfully violates the divine law and separates the soul from God—seven deadly sins, pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth; Original sin, the innate depravity and corruption of the whole nature due to the sin of Adam as federal representative of the human race, and transmitted by ordinary generation to all his posterity; Venial sin, any transgression due to inadvertence, not alienating the friendship of God. [A.S. syn, sinn; Ice. syn-d, Ger. sünde, L. sons.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. sin

    Perverted power. The man without capacity for sin has no ability to do good--isn't that so? His soul is a Dead Sea that supports neither ameba nor fish, neither noxious bacilli nor useful life.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SIN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sin is ranked #8797 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sin surname appeared 3,725 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Sin.

    89.5% or 3,337 total occurrences were Asian.
    4.3% or 160 total occurrences were White.
    3.3% or 126 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 70 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SIN' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3562

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SIN' in Nouns Frequency: #1967

Anagrams for SIN »

  1. INS

  2. ins

  3. ins.

  4. NIS

  5. nis

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SIN in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SIN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of SIN in a Sentence

  1. Helen Rowland:

    Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

  2. Bob Seger:

    there will always be pressures and time sin your life when you'll need answers, but coke and the rest offer nothing -- no outlet, no information. And, believe me, you're only as good as your information.

  3. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

    The system set it has you wired, but it never gets tired. It keeps you in uncertainty while it tracks you with its -sin- number and social security. The system set. See ras cardo's youtube video- the system set.

  4. Pope Francis:

    The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

  5. Patriarch Kirill:

    In order to enter the club of those countries, it is necessary to hold a gay pride parade. Not to make a political statement,' we are with you,' not to sign any agreements, but to hold a gay parade, if we see violations of [ God's ] law, we will never put up with those who destroy this law, blurring the line between holiness and sin, and even more so with those who promote sin as an example or as one of the models of human behavior.

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  • Robert B. Hunter
    Robert B. Hunter
    I make the word sin an acronym Selfish----Indulgent----Need
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