sin

noun

1. (countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable)A violation of divine will or religious law.

   “As a Christian, I think this is a sin against God.”

   “Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in any of the States composing it;[…]”

2. (countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable)Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
3. (countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable)A misdeed or wrong.

   “The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.”

4. (countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable)A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

   “For he hath made him to be ſinne for vs, who knewe no ſinne,[…]”

5. (countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable)An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

   “Thy Ambition / (Thou Scarlet ſinne) robb’d this bewailing Land / Of Noble Buckingham,[…]”

6. (countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable)A flaw or mistake.

   “No movie is without sin.”

7. (countable, error-lua-exec, uncountable)sin bin

   “Winger Cheslin Kolbe, sitting with his jersey over his head in the sin after a yellow card at the death, was probably the sight of millions of South Africans around the country who had their hearts in their mouth as they sat through another nail-biting match.”

8. A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
9. A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
10. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
11. (Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of social insurance number, an identification number issued by the government of Canada.

verb

1. (error-lua-exec, intransitive)To commit a sin.

name

1. The god of the moon.
2. A surname from Chinese.
3. A desert mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, situated between Elim and Mount Sinai.

   “And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.”

4. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Sinaloa: a state of Mexico.