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Drain

//dɹeɪn// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
2
A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

Noun

1
A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK) Canada, US
"The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged."
2
emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it wordnet
3
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. UK
4
a gradual depletion of energy or resources wordnet
5
A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
"Saganing Drain, Vermuyden's Drain, the South Drain river, Najafgarh drain"

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a pipe through which liquid is carried away wordnet
7
Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
"That rental property is a drain on our finances."
8
tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material wordnet
9
An act of urination. vulgar
10
One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
11
An outhole.
12
A drink. UK, dated, slang
"When the play was over, we came out together, and I said, "We've been very companionable and agreeable, and perhaps you wouldn't object to a drain?""

Verb

1
To lose liquid. intransitive
"The clogged sink drained slowly."
2
make weak wordnet
3
To flow gradually. intransitive
"The water of low ground drains off."
4
empty of liquid; drain the liquid from wordnet
5
To cause liquid to flow out of. ergative, transitive
"Please drain the sink. It’s full of dirty water."

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deplete of resources wordnet
7
To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one. ergative, transitive
"They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built."
8
flow off gradually wordnet
9
To deplete of energy or resources. transitive
"The stress of this job is really draining me."
10
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust. transitive
"Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent."
11
To filter. obsolete, transitive
"Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh."
12
To fall off the bottom of the playfield. intransitive
"When a ball finally drains, it's gulped down by a giant gator beneath the set of flippers."
13
To drink. archaic, slang, transitive
"But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter."
14
To make a shot. slang, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English dreinen, from Old English drēahnian (“to drain, strain, filter”), from Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną (“to strain, sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, parched”). Akin to Old English drūgian (“to dry up”), Old English drūgaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English drȳġe (“dry”). More at dry.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

* As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, from Ó Dreain (“descendant of Drean”), probably from dreán (“wren, songbird”) (see Welsh dryw (“wren”)). * Also as an Irish surname, from Ó Druacháin; see Drohan. * As an English surname, occupational surname related to the noun drain. * Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Drane. * As a French surname, reduced from Derain, from Old French dererain (“the last”), nickname for the youngest son of a family; see derrière (“behind”).

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