Sin vs. Sink — What's the Difference?

In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law. Each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to commit a sin.

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.

An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law

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

Commit a sin

Descend from a higher to a lower position; drop downwards

A transgression of a religious or moral law, especially when deliberate.

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

Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God.

Insert beneath a surface

A condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience.

Rapidly consume (an alcoholic drink)

Something regarded as being shameful, deplorable, or utterly wrong.

A fixed basin with a water supply and outflow pipe

One of the two forms of the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the letter shin by having a dot above the left side of the letter. See Table at alphabet.

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

The Babylonian god of the moon.

Short for sinkhole

To violate a religious or moral law.

A place of vice or corruption

(theology) A violation of God's will or religious law.

To go below the surface of water or another liquid

Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.

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

A misdeed or wrong.

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

A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

To subside or settle gradually

An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

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

A flaw or mistake.

To slope downward; incline

A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ]]

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

A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س

To feel great disappointment or discouragement

To commit a sin.

To pass into something; penetrate

Old form of Since.

To steep or soak

Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.

To pass into a specified condition

An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.

To deteriorate in quality or condition

A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

To diminish, as in value

An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.

To become weaker, quieter, or less forceful

To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; - often followed by against.

To make an impression; become felt or understood

To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.

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

Estrangement from god

To cause to penetrate deeply

An act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will

To force into the ground

Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

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

(Akkadian) god of the moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

To cause to drop or lower

The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

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

Violent and excited activity;

To cause to be engrossed

Commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

To make weaker, quieter, or less forceful

Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake;

To reduce in quantity or worth

To debase the nature of; degrade

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

To suppress or hide

(Informal) To defeat, as in a game.

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

To pay off (a debt).

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

A cesspool.

A sinkhole.

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

A place regarded as wicked and corrupt

To move or be moved into something.

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

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

(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;