Word Finder - drain

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A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)

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The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.

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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.

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Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.

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That rental property is a drain on our finances.

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An act of urination.

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One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

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An outhole.

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A drink.

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To lose liquid.

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The clogged sink drained slowly.

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To flow gradually.

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The water of low ground drains off.

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To cause liquid to flow out of.

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Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.

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To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

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They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.

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To deplete of energy or resources.

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The stress of this job is really draining me.

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To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.

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To filter.

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To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

She could feel the blood drain from her face.

Want me to drain the lake?

The roof must not be quite flat, for a slight fall is necessary in its upper surface to allow water to drain away into gutters placed at convenient points.

Such cells are termed "drain pipe" cells.

He said he was going to drain all my blood out.

She opened her eyes, feeling the drain.

Several rivulets follow the ravines and drain into the Ribeirao do Carmo, a sub-tributary of the Rio Doce.

Tip the bowl to drain the water and repeat the rinsing process again.

She glanced down to watch the blood stream down the drain then held up her arm.

The Dark One could drain a village in two days.

In two or three minutes coagulation takes place, and the rubber is then exposed to the air on sticks, and allowed to drain for eight days.

They are constructed not only as navigable waterways, but also to relieve the rivers from periodical overflow, and to drain the marshy districts.

At the ebb of the tide the more or less clear water flows back again from the land into the main river with sufficient force to clean out any deposit which may have accumulated in the drain leading to the warped area, thus allowing free access of more warpladen water at the next tide.

When the conquest of the city seemed inevitable, a great "brain drain" of scholars, artists, teachers, theologians, and the wealthy emigrated to Western Europe, especially to Italy.

At the house, she washed her hands, watching the water turn red and swirl down the drain.

The water stung her skin, and she grimaced as her attacker's blood ran down the drain.

The general elevation in the south part of the state is much lower, and large areas bordering the Paraguay are swampy, partially submerged plains which the sluggish rivers are unable to drain.

The Versecz and the Berzava canal, which are connected with one another, drain the numerous marshes of the Banat, including the Alibunar marsh.

The word "kennel," a gutter, a drain in a street or road, is a corruption of the Middle English canel, cannel, in modern English "channel," from Latin canalis, canal.

Generally it is either dried, after being separated from the wash water, by means of common salt, upon a layer of which the moist nitroglycerin is gently run and allowed to drain or filter through, or it is filtered through a mass of dry sponge or similar dry and porous material.

It is first surrounded by an embankment, after which the water from the river is allowed to flow through a properly constructed sluice in its bank, along a drain or ditch to the land which is prepared for warping.

The streams that drain the state are small and insignificant.

The former of these measures effectually stopped any drain of the best members away from the society and limited their hopes within its bounds, by putting them more freely at the general's disposal, especially as it was provided that the final vows could not be annulled, nor could a professed member be dismissed, save by the joint action of the general and the pope.

The peritoneal surfaces in the region of the liver should then be wiped clean, and the abdominal wound closed, except for the passage through it of a gauze drain.

The stated rationale is to widen access, reduce brain drain, bolster research capabilities and maximize the competitiveness of the sector.

Main drain off valves shall be located in service risers.

Davis gulped the last of his coffee and turned the cup up side down on a rock so it would drain.

Cody, sprawled in the middle of the street after being hit by a car, blood trickling from his skull into a nearby storm drain.

She froze at the sight straight out of her vision—the little boy, Cody, spread-eagled in the street near the storm drain.

It may be pointed out here that these expressions are defined by the act, the effect of the definitions being shortly that a drain is a conduit for the drainage of one building or of several within the same curtilage, while a sewer comprises every kind of drain except that which is covered by the definition of a drain as above stated.

In well-drained localities the border may be partially below the ground level, but in damp situations it should be made on the surface; in either case the firm solid bottom should slope outwards towards an efficient drain.

Robertson has shown that the typhoid bacillus can grow very easily in certain soils, can persist in soils through the winter months, and when the soil is artificially fed, as may be done by a leaky drain or by access of filthy water from the surface, the microorganism will take on a fresh growth in the warm season.

The German trading towns, at the mouths of the numerous streams which drain the North European plain, were stimulated or created by the unifying impulse of a common and long-continued advance of conquest and colonization.

In addition to this, they constitute a drain upon the blood which may result in anaemia.

The principal rivers, besides the Cher and its tributaries, are the Grande Sauldre and the Petite Sauldre on the north, but the Loire and Allier, though not falling within the department, drain the eastern districts, and are available for navigation.

The Rio Grande and its principal tributary, the Pecos, drain narrow basins in the S.W.; these two rivers and the Canadian river rise in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and New Mexico, but all the other rivers by which the state is drained rise within its borders.

The narrower part of the Tagus basin lies to the south, and the left-hand tributaries which drain it are almost all mere brooks, dry in summer.

Although the lake is fed by many small mountain torrents, it has no visible outlet, but probably communicates by an underground channel with one of the rivers which drain the Cordillera.

The pope, moreover, had come to depend to a considerable extent for his revenue upon the payments made by his nominees, which represented a corresponding drain on the resources of the secular states.

When we remember that in 50 years of the 5th century some io,000 cleruchs went out, it is clear that the drain on the citizen population was considerable.

The principal rivers are the Aras and Kizil Uzain, both receiving numerous tributaries and flowing into the Caspian, and the Jaghatu, Tatava, Murdi, Aji and others, which drain into the Urmia lake.

The rivers named all drain to the Gulf of Guinea; the rivers in the extreme north of the colony belong to the Niger system, being affluents of the Bani or Mahel Balevel branch of that river.

It was questionable, even in October 1904, whether she could endure the drain of men and money, if it were prolonged much further.

In 1903 the El Paso drain was completed, to unwater the western half of the field to the 880-ft.

The rivers of Canada, except the St Lawrence, are losing their importance as means of communication from year to year, as railways spread over the interior and cross the mountains to the Pacific; but from the point of view of the physical geographer there are few things more remarkable than the intricate and comprehensive way, in which they drain the country.

All streams, from the tiniest rill to the greatest river, are continually engaged in transporting downstream solid particles of rock, the product of weathering agencies in the area which they drain.

The causes of their subsequent estrangement are obscure, but it was possibly due to the empress's lavish expenditure in charity and church building, which endeared her to ecclesiastics but was a serious drain on the imperial finances.

It is sometimes alleged by native Indian politicians that famines are growing worse under British rule, because India is becoming exhausted by an excessive land revenue, a civil service too expensive for her needs, military expenditure on imperial objects, and the annual drain of some 15,000,000 for "home charges."

Beside the altar was a drain (piscina) for pouring away the water in which the communion vessels were rinsed.

The continued efforts of the popes to drain Christian gold to Rome were limited only by the fiscal pretensions of the lay sovereigns, and it was this financial rivalry that gave rise to the inevitable conflict between Boniface VIII.