Bath vs Sink - What's the difference?
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A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
A building or area where bathing occurs.
* Gwilt
The act of bathing.
A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
* {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
, author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper
, passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}
To wash a person or animal in a bath
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(biblical) An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.
* 1611, ,
To move or be moved into something.
#(lb) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
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#(lb) To cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
#(lb) To push (something) into something.
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# To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
#*2008 , Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel
#*:My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.
To diminish or be diminished.
# To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
#*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Ch.21:
#*:I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in black.
#*1915 , , The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston; ch. XIX:
#*:Peter's heart sank . "Don't you think it is dreadful?" he asked.
# To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:If I have a conscience, let it sink me.
#* (1674-1718)
#*:Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power / Has sunk thy father more than all his years.
#(lb) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
#*2013 , Steve Henschel, Niagara This Week , April 24:
#*:Who would sink so low as to steal change from veterans?
To conceal and appropriate.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account.
To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
* (1721-1793)
*:a courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths
To reduce or extinguish by payment.
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(lb) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
*(rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
*(rfdate)
*:Let not the fire sink or slacken.
(lb) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
*(rfdate) (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
A basin used for holding water for washing
A drain for carrying off wastewater
(geology) A sinkhole
A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet
A heat sink
A place that absorbs resources or energy
(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch
(computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink
(graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network
In transitive terms the difference between sink and bath
is that sink is to push (something) into something while bath is to wash a person or animal in a bath.As verbs the difference between sink and bath
is that sink is To move or be moved into something.bath is to wash a person or animal in a bath.As nouns the difference between sink and bath
is that sink is a basin used for holding water for washing while bath is a tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.As a proper noun Bath is
a city in Somerset, England, famous for its baths fed by a hot spring.bath
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
- a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
Usage notes
Sense 3. is usually to take''' ''(US)'' or '''have ''(UK, Aus)'' a bath. See alsoDerived terms
* * * * * (US)Verb
(en verb)citation, isbn=0415048591 , page=41 , passage=Somewhere to bath''' the baby'': don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to '''bath''' the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, ' bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor. }}
citation, isbn=1405111836 , page=91 , passage=For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose. }}
citation, isbn=17770075445 , page=179 , passage=If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week. }}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath'. The ephah and the '''bath''' shall be of one measure, that the ' bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----sink
English
Verb
John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
Usage notes
* Use of the past participle form sunk'' for the past ''sank is not uncommon, but considered incorrect.Synonyms
* descend, go down * (submerge) dip, dunk, submerge * *Derived terms
* sinker * sink in * sink like a stone * sinking fund * sinking head * sink or swim * sinking pump * sinking ship * countersinkNoun
(wikipedia sink) (en noun)- Jones' has a two-seamer with heavy sink .