Sink vs. Draw — What's the Difference?

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.

Produce (a picture or diagram) by making lines and marks on paper with a pencil, pen, etc.

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

Pull or drag (something such as a vehicle) so as to make it follow behind

Descend from a higher to a lower position; drop downwards

Extract (an object) from a container or receptacle

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

Take or obtain (liquid) from a container or receptacle

Insert beneath a surface

Select (a ticket or name) randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

Rapidly consume (an alcoholic drink)

Be the cause of (a specified response)

A fixed basin with a water supply and outflow pipe

Select (a ticket or name) randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

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

Finish (a contest or game) with an even score

Short for sinkhole

(in bowls) cause (a bowl) to travel in a curve determined by its bias to the desired point.

A place of vice or corruption

(of a ship) require (a specified depth of water) to float in

To go below the surface of water or another liquid

(of a sail) be filled with wind

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

An act of selecting names randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

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

A game or contest that ends with the score even

To subside or settle gradually

A person or thing that is very attractive or interesting

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

An act of drawing on a cigarette or cigar

To slope downward; incline

An act of pulling a gun from its holster in order to shoot

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

A shot causing the ball to deviate slightly

To feel great disappointment or discouragement

To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag

To pass into something; penetrate

To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading

To steep or soak

To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something

To pass into a specified condition

To cause to flow forth

To deteriorate in quality or condition

To suck or take in (air, for example); inhale.

To diminish, as in value

To require (a specified depth of water) for floating

To become weaker, quieter, or less forceful

To take or pull out

To make an impression; become felt or understood

To extract or take for one's own use

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

To make (tea) by steeping.

To cause to penetrate deeply

To eviscerate; disembowel

To force into the ground

To cause to come by attracting; attract

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

To select or take in from a given group, type, or region

To cause to drop or lower

To bring to a certain condition or action; lead

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

To bring about deliberately; provoke

To cause to be engrossed

To evoke as a response; elicit

To make weaker, quieter, or less forceful

To earn; gain

To reduce in quantity or worth

To withdraw (money).

To debase the nature of; degrade

To use (a check, for example) when paying.

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

To receive on a regular basis or at a specified time

To suppress or hide

To take or receive by chance

(Informal) To defeat, as in a game.

To take (cards) from a dealer or central stack.

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

To force (a card) to be played.

To pay off (a debt).

To end or leave (a contest) tied or undecided.

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

To hit or strike (a billiard ball, for example) so as to give it backspin.

A cesspool.

To hit (a golf ball) with a draw.

A sinkhole.

To make tense or taut

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

To pull back the string of (a bow).

A place regarded as wicked and corrupt

To distort the shape of

To move or be moved into something.

To flatten, stretch, or mold (metal) by hammering or die stamping.

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

To shape or elongate (a wire, for example) by pulling through dies.

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

To inscribe (a line or lines) with a pencil or other marking implement.

(transitive) To push (something) into something.

To make a likeness of on a surface, using mostly lines; depict with lines

(transitive) To make by digging or delving.

To portray in writing or speech; depict with words

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

To formulate or devise from evidence or data at hand

To diminish or be diminished.

To compose or write out in legal format

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

To proceed or move steadily

To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.

To attract customers or spectators

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

To pour forth liquid

To conceal and appropriate.

To cause suppuration.

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

To take in a draft of air

To drink (especially something alcoholic).

To steep in or as if in the manner of tea.

To pay absolutely.

To pull out a weapon for use.

To reduce or extinguish by payment.

To use or call upon part of a fund or supply

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

To contract or tighten

To die.

To conclude a contest without either side winning; tie

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

To make a likeness with lines on a surface; sketch.

A basin used for holding water for washing.

An act of drawing.

A drain for carrying off wastewater.

The result of drawing.

(geology) A sinkhole.

Something drawn, especially a lot, card, or cards drawn at random.

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

The arrangement of competitors in a tournament in which the matchups are made at random.

A heat sink.

A matchup or opponent in such a tournament.

A place that absorbs resources or energy.

An inhalation, especially through a pipe or other smoking implement.

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

One that attracts interest, customers, or spectators

(uncountable) Descending motion; descent.

The movable part of a drawbridge.

(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.

A special advantage; an edge

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

A contest ending without either side winning.

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

A small natural depression that water drains into; a shallow gully.

An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.

(Football) A play in which the quarterback drops back as if to pass and then runs or hands off to a running back.

A depression in a stereotype plate.

(Sports) A face-off.

(theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.

(Games) A draw shot.

(mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.

(Sports) A moderate, usually controlled hook in golf.

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

To move or develop something.

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 sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.

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

To deduce or infer.

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

To steep, leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.

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.

(transitive) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.

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

To take into the lungs; to inhale.

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

(used with prepositions and adverbs) To move; to come or go.

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 approach, come to, or arrive at a point in time or a process.

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

(transitive) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

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

To withdraw.

To conseal and appropriate.

(archaic) To draw up (a document).

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

To exert or experience force.

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

(transitive) To drag, pull.

A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

(intransitive) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling.

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.

To pull out, unsheathe (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).

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

To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.

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.

(archery) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting.

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

(of curtains, etc.) To close.

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

(of curtains, etc.) To open.

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

(cards) To take the top card of a deck into hand.

A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

(fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.

Fall or drop to a lower place or level;

To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood.

Cause to sink;

To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

Pass into a specified state or condition;

(figurative) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

Go under,

To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

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

To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc.

Appear to move downward;

(intransitive) To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc.

Fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly;

(analogous) To consume, for example, power.

Fall or sink heavily;

To change in size or shape.

Embed deeply;

To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch.

(intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink.

To attract or be attracted.

To attract.

To induce (a reticent person) to speak.

(hunting) To search for game.

To cause.

(intransitive) To exert an attractive force; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.

(usually as draw on or draw upon) To rely on; utilize as a source.

To disembowel.

To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).

To choose by means of a random selection process.

To select by the drawing of lots.

(transitive) To win in a lottery or similar game of chance.

(poker) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out.

(curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.

(cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

(golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.

(billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.

The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.

The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.

Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.

The act of drawing.

(cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).

(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.

(curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.

(geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.

A bag of cannabis.

Cannabis.

In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.

(poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.

(archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.

(sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.

To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.

To pull from a sheath, as a sword.

To remove the contents of

To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.

To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.

To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.

To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.

To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.

To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.

To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.

To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; - said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.

To withdraw.

To trace by scent; to track; - a hunting term.

To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn.

To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.

To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.

To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; - said of a blister, poultice, etc.

To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.

To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.

To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.

To become contracted; to shrink.

To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; - with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, draw nigh, or draw towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; - usually with on or upon.

To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.

To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

The act of drawing; draught.

A lot or chance to be drawn.

The act of drawing a lot or chance.

A drawn game or battle, etc; a tied game; a tie.

That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.

The result of drawing, or state of being drawn;

That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.

A gully that is shallower than a ravine

An entertainer who attracts large audiences;

The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided;

Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random;

A playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack;

A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer;

(American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage

Poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer;

The act of drawing or hauling something;

Cause to move along the ground by pulling;

Get or derive;

Make a mark or lines on a surface;

Make, formulate, or derive in the mind;

Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover;

Represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface;

Take liquid out of a container or well;

Give a description of;

Select or take in from a given group or region;

Elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.;

Suck in or take (air);

Move or go steadily or gradually;

Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source);

Choose at random;

In baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher;

Bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition;

Cause to flow;

Write a legal document or paper;

Engage in drawing;

Move or pull so as to cover or uncover something;

Allow a draft;

Require a specified depth for floating;

Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him;

Take in, also metaphorically;

Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes;

Thread on or as if on a string;

Pull back the sling of (a bow);

Guide or pass over something;

Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.;

Contract;

Reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die;

Steep; pass through a strainer;

Remove the entrails of;

Flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching;

Cause to localize at one point;