plughole

«plughole» in Mova's school dictionary: the hole at the bottom of a bath or sink where the water… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a plughole, plugholes)

meaning for a pupil

A plughole is the hole at the bottom of a bath or sink where the water drains away. tree →

sense in the lessons

A British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand word; Americans say «drain». In everyday life: hair can block the plughole; a plug goes into the plughole to keep water in. In science: water spinning down a plughole forms a little whirlpool. Phrase: «go down the plughole» = be wasted or lost.

examples

• The water swirled down the plughole. tree →
• Hair has blocked the plughole again. tree →
• Put the plug in the plughole before you fill the sink. tree →
• My ring nearly fell down the plughole! tree →
• Don't pour cooking fat down the plughole. tree →
• All our hard work went down the plughole. tree →

note

Countable: a plughole, plugholes. The «plug» is the stopper, the «plughole» is the hole. A popular myth says water always spins one way in the north and the other way in the south; in a sink or bath the shape of the basin and the way the water moved decide the direction, not the hemisphere.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «plughole» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.