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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/#x1)
- Hair has blocked the plughole again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/#x2)
- Put the plug in the plughole before you fill the sink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/#x3)
- My ring nearly fell down the plughole! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/#x4)
- Don't pour cooking fat down the plughole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/#x5)
- All our hard work went down the plughole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.