The difference between Sink and Source

When used as nouns, sink means a basin used for holding water for washing, whereas source means the person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

When used as verbs, sink means to descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance, whereas source means to obtain or procure:.

check bellow for the other definitions of Sink and Source

  1. 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."

  2. 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"

  3. Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):

    To conceal and appropriate.

  4. Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):

    To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

  5. Sink as a verb (transitive, slang, archaic):

    To reduce or extinguish by payment.

    Examples:

    "to sink the national debt"

  6. Sink as a verb (intransitive):

    To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

  7. Sink as a verb (intransitive):

    To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

  1. Sink as a noun:

    A basin used for holding water for washing

  2. Sink as a noun:

    A drain for carrying off wastewater

  3. Sink as a noun (geology):

    A sinkhole

  4. Sink as a noun:

    A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet

  5. Sink as a noun:

    A heat sink

  6. Sink as a noun:

    A place that absorbs resources or energy

  7. Sink as a noun (baseball):

    The motion of a sinker pitch

    Examples:

    "Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink."

  8. Sink as a noun (computing, programming):

    An object or callback that captures events; event sink

  9. Sink as a noun (graph theory):

    a destination vertex in a transportation network

  1. Source as a noun:

    The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

    Examples:

    "The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling."

  2. Source as a noun:

    Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.

    Examples:

    "The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers."

  3. Source as a noun:

    A reporter's informant.

  4. Source as a noun (computing):

    Source code.

  5. Source as a noun (electronics):

    The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

  1. Source as a verb (chiefly, US):

    To obtain or procure:

  2. Source as a verb (transitive):

    To find information about (a quotation)'s source : to find a citation for.

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