drain
see also: Drain
Pronunciation
Drain
Proper noun
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see also: Drain
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɹeɪn/
drain (plural drains)
- (chiefly, US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.
- (chiefly, UK) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- That rental property is a drain on our finances.
- (vulgar) An act of urination.
- (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (pinball) An outhole.
- (slang, dated) A drink.
- French: drain, bonde
- German: Abfluss
- Italian: scolo
- Portuguese: dreno, ralo
- Russian: дрена́ж
- Spanish: desagüe, drenaje
- Spanish: aliviadero
- French: hémorragie, gouffre
- Portuguese: ralo
- Russian: уте́чка
- Spanish: tubo abierto, sangría
- Russian: моче́ние
- French: drain
drain (drains, present participle draining; past and past participle drained)
- (intransitive) To lose liquid.
- The clogged sink drained slowly.
- Knock knock.
Who's there?
Dwayne.
Dwayne who?
Drain the bathtub, I'm drowning.
- (intransitive) To flow gradually.
- The water of low ground drains off.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.
- Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.
- (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
- They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
- (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
- The stress of this job is really draining me.
- (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.
- But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (transitive, obsolete) To filter.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
- French: drainer
- German: entwässern, abfließen lassen, ablassen
- Italian: scolare
- Portuguese: drenar, escoar
- Russian: спуска́ть
- Spanish: desaguar
- French: déshydrater, essorer
- German: trocknen, trockenlegen
- Portuguese: drenar, secar
- Russian: осуша́ть
- Spanish: desaguar, desecar
Drain
Proper noun
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