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# plughole

noun (a plughole, plugholes)

«plughole» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A plughole is the hole at the bottom of a bath or sink where the water drains away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/#m1)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «plughole» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plughole/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«plughole» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/plughole.html) on Mova free.