Drink vs. Sink — What's the Difference?

A drink (or beverage) is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture.

Rapidly consume (an alcoholic drink)

To take into the mouth and swallow (a liquid).

A sink – also known by other names including sinker, washbowl, hand basin, wash basin, and simply basin – is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture used for washing hands, dishwashing, and other purposes. Sinks have taps (faucets) that supply hot and cold water and may include a spray feature to be used for faster rinsing.

To swallow the liquid contents of (a vessel)

Go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged

To take in or soak up; absorb

Descend from a higher to a lower position; drop downwards

To take in eagerly through the senses or intellect

Gradually decrease or decline in value, amount, quality, or intensity

To give or make (a toast).

Insert beneath a surface

To toast (a person or an occasion, for example)

A fixed basin with a water supply and outflow pipe

To bring to a specific state by drinking alcoholic beverages

A pool or marsh in which a river's water disappears by evaporation or percolation.

To swallow liquid

Short for sinkhole

To drink alcoholic beverages

A place of vice or corruption

To salute a person or an occasion with a toast

To go below the surface of water or another liquid

A liquid that is fit for drinking; a beverage.

To descend to the bottom of a body of water or other liquid

An alcoholic beverage, such as a cocktail or beer.

To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages

Chiefly Southern US See soft drink. tonic

To subside or settle gradually

An amount of liquid swallowed

To appear to move downward, as the sun or moon in setting.

Liquid for drinking

To slope downward; incline

Excessive or habitual indulgence in alcoholic liquor.

To fall or lower oneself slowly, as from weakness or fatigue

(Slang) A body of water; the sea

To feel great disappointment or discouragement

(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

To pass into something; penetrate

To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).

To steep or soak

(intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.

To pass into a specified condition

(transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

To deteriorate in quality or condition

(transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

To diminish, as in value

To smoke, as tobacco.

To become weaker, quieter, or less forceful

A beverage.

To make an impression; become felt or understood

(uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink

To cause to descend beneath the surface or to the bottom of a liquid

A type of beverage (usually mixed).

To cause to penetrate deeply

A (served) alcoholic beverage.

To force into the ground

The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.

To dig or drill (a mine or well) in the earth.

Alcoholic beverages in general.

To cause to drop or lower

Any body of water.

(Sports) To propel (a ball or shot) into a hole, basket, or pocket.

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

To cause to be engrossed

To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.

To make weaker, quieter, or less forceful

To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.

To reduce in quantity or worth

To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

To debase the nature of; degrade

To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

To bring to a low or ruined state; defeat or destroy

To smoke, as tobacco.

To suppress or hide

Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.

(Informal) To defeat, as in a game.

Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.

To invest or spend, often without getting a return or adequate value

A single serving of a beverage;

To pay off (a debt).

The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess;

A water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe and generally a piped supply of water.

Any liquid suitable for drinking;

A cesspool.

Any large deep body of water;

A sinkhole.

The act of swallowing;

A natural or artificial means of absorbing or removing a substance or a form of energy from a system.

Take in liquids;

A place regarded as wicked and corrupt

Consume alcohol;

To move or be moved into something.

Propose a toast to;

(ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.

Be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to;

(transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.

Drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic;

(transitive) To push (something) into something.

(transitive) To make by digging or delving.

To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.

To diminish or be diminished.

To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.

To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.

(intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

To conceal and appropriate.

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

To drink (especially something alcoholic).

To pay absolutely.

To reduce or extinguish by payment.

(intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.

To die.

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

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.

(ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.

(uncountable) Descending motion; descent.

(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.

An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.

(graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.

An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.

A depression in a stereotype plate.

(theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.

(mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.

(game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.

To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.

To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.

Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.

To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.

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

To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.

Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.

To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.

To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.

To conseal and appropriate.

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

To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.

A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.

A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; - called also sink hole.

The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River.

Plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe

(technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system;

A depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof

A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

Fall or drop to a lower place or level;

Cause to sink;

Pass into a specified state or condition;

Go under,

Descend into or as if into some soft substance or place;

Appear to move downward;

Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly;

Fall or sink heavily;

Embed deeply;