drain
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-der.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *draugiz
Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną
Proto-West Germanic *drauhnōn
Old English drēahnian
Middle English *dreinen
English drain
Inherited from Middle English *dreinen, from Old English drēahnian, from Proto-West Germanic *drauhnōn, from Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną, from *draugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-, from *dʰer-. Akin to Old English drūgian (“to dry up”), Old English drūgaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English drȳġe (“dry”). More at dry.
Inflected forms:
form: drains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drein
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dreen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Appalachia
form: drains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: draining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drained
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drein
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: drein
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dreen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Appalachia
Senses:
gloss: A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.
bathtub drain; floor drain; shower drain; sink drain
drain hole
An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
pos: noun
examples: Saganing Drain, Vermuyden's Drain, the South Drain river, Najafgarh drain
[…] the little runs and drains, that come through the hills, and to the sources of the creeks and their branches.
The main drain of the country is the Walé nullah, which afterwards joins the Southern Ngombé and forms part of the system of the Malagarazi.
gloss: Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
pos: noun
examples: That rental property is a drain on our finances.
gloss: An act of urination.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
gloss: One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
pos: noun
gloss: An outhole.
pos: noun
gloss: A drink.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
slang
examples: 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?"
What did she want with money, except now and then for a drain of white satin.
gloss: To lose liquid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The clogged sink drained slowly.
Knock knock. / Who’s there? / Dwayne. / Dwayne who? / Drain the bathtub, I’m drowning.
gloss: To flow gradually.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The water of low ground drains off.
gloss: To cause liquid to flow out of.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
examples: Please drain the sink. It’s full of dirty water.
gloss: To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
examples: They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
gloss: To deplete of energy or resources.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The stress of this job is really draining me.
gloss: To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.
At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.
But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
gloss: To filter.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.
gloss: To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When a ball finally drains, it's gulped down by a giant gator beneath the set of flippers.
gloss: To drink.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To make a shot.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Derived words: air drain
brain drain
catchdrain
circle the drain
counterdrain
down the drain
drainboard
Drainbow
drain cleaner
drain cock
draincock
Drainer
drain fever
drain field
drain fly
drainful
drainless
drainlike
drain-like
drainmaker
draino
drain pan
drainpipe
drain pipe
drainplug
drain plug
drain pump
draintile
draintrap
drainwork
French drain
go down the drain
Jackson-Pratt drain
JP drain
laugh like a drain
like a rat up a drain
Penrose drain
pour down the drain
reverse brain drain
rubble drain
spray drain
storm drain
table drain
top-drain
variance drain
well drain
subdrain
underdrain
undrain
drainable
drainage
drain away
drainback
drainee
draining
drain out
drain the dragon
drain the lizard
drain the main vein
drain the python
drain the snake
drain the swamp
overdrain
redrain
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