The difference between Basin and Sink
When used as nouns, basin means a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall, whereas sink means a basin used for holding water for washing.
Sink is also verb with the meaning: to descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
check bellow for the other definitions of Basin and Sink
-
Basin as a noun:
A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
-
Basin as a noun (obsolete):
A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
-
Basin as a noun:
A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
-
Basin as a noun (geography):
An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
-
Basin as a noun (geography):
A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
-
Sink as a verb (physical):
To move or be moved into something. To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight. To push (something) into something. To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
Examples:
"A stone sinks in water.  nowrap The sun gradually sank in the west."
"The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards.  nowrap The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg."
-
Sink as a verb (social):
To diminish or be diminished. To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression. To cause to decline; to depress or degrade. To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
Examples:
"to sink one's reputation"
-
Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):
To conceal and appropriate.
-
Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):
To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
-
Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):
To reduce or extinguish by payment.
Examples:
"to sink the national debt"
-
Sink as a verb (intransitive):
To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
-
Sink as a verb (intransitive):
To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
-
Sink as a noun:
A basin used for holding water for washing
-
Sink as a noun:
A drain for carrying off wastewater
-
Sink as a noun (geology):
A sinkhole
-
Sink as a noun:
A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
-
Sink as a noun:
A heat sink
-
Sink as a noun:
A place that absorbs resources or energy
-
Sink as a noun (baseball):
The motion of a sinker pitch
Examples:
"Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink."
-
Sink as a noun (computing, programming):
An object or callback that captures events; event sink
-
Sink as a noun (graph theory):
a destination vertex in a transportation network