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ALL meanings of drain

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  • noun drain water pipe 1
  • abbreviation DRAIN depletion 1
  • transitive verb drain empty 1
  • transitive verb drain separate liquid 1
  • transitive verb drain energy or resource 1
  • intransitive verb drain water 1
  • transitive verb drain empty by drinking 1
  • verb with object drain to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase. 1
  • verb with object drain to withdraw liquid gradually from; make empty or dry by drawing off liquid: to drain a crankcase. 1
  • verb with object drain to exhaust the resources of: to drain the treasury. 1
  • verb with object drain to deprive of strength; tire. 1
  • verb without object drain to flow off gradually. 1
  • verb without object drain to become empty or dry by the gradual flowing off of liquid or moisture: This land drains into the Mississippi. 1
  • noun drain something, as a pipe or conduit, by which a liquid drains. 1
  • noun drain Surgery. a material or appliance for maintaining the opening of a wound to permit free exit of fluids. 1
  • noun drain gradual or continuous outflow, withdrawal, or expenditure. 1
  • noun drain something that causes a large or continuous outflow, expenditure, or depletion: Medical expenses were a major drain on his bank account. 1
  • noun drain an act of draining. 1
  • noun drain Physical Geography. an artificial watercourse, as a ditch or trench. a natural watercourse modified to increase its flow of water. 1
  • idioms drain go down the drain, to become worthless or profitless. to go out of existence; disappear. 1
  • noun drain Cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty, dry, or drier. 1
  • noun Definition of drain in Technology (jargon)   (IBM) To allow a system to complete the processing of its current work before the system becomes unavailable. E.g. draining a device before taking it off-line or telling a web server in a server farm not to accept any new requests but to finish processing any requests it has already accepted. 1
  • noun drain A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume. 0
  • noun drain (chiefly Britain) 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. 0
  • noun drain Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return. 0
  • noun drain (vulgar) An act of urination. 0
  • noun drain (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET). 0
  • noun drain (pinball) An outhole. 0
  • verb drain (Intransitive Verb) To lose liquid. 0
  • verb drain (Intransitive Verb) To flow gradually. 0
  • verb drain (Transitive Verb) (ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of. 0
  • verb drain (Transitive Verb) (ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one. 0
  • verb drain (Transitive Verb) To deplete of energy or resources. 0
  • verb drain (Transitive Verb) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust. 0
  • verb drain (Transitive Verb) OBS To filter. 0
  • verb drain (Intransitive Verb) (pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield. 0
  • verb drain If you drain a liquid from a place or object, you remove the liquid by causing it to flow somewhere else. If a liquid drains somewhere, it flows there. 0
  • verb drain If you drain a place or object, you dry it by causing water to flow out of it. If a place or object drains, water flows out of it until it is dry. 0
  • verb drain If you drain food or if food drains, you remove the liquid that it has been in, especially after it has been cooked or soaked in water. 0
  • countable noun drain A drain is a pipe that carries water or sewage away from a place, or an opening in a surface that leads to the pipe. 0
  • verb drain If someone drains a glass, they empty it by drinking what is in it. 0
  • verb drain If the colour or the blood drains or is drained from someone's face, they become very pale. You can also say that someone's face drains or is drained of colour. 0
  • ergative verb drain If a feeling drains or is drained out of you, it gradually becomes less strong until you no longer feel it. 0
  • verb drain If something drains you, it leaves you feeling physically and emotionally exhausted. 0
  • ergative verb drain If energy drains or is drained from you, you lose all energy and become very tired. 0
  • singular noun drain If you say that something is a drain on an organization's finances or resources, you mean that it costs the organization a large amount of money, and you do not consider that it is worth it. 0
  • verb drain If you say that a country's or a company's resources or finances are drained, you mean that they are used or spent completely. 0
  • noun drain a pipe or channel that carries off water, sewage, etc 0
  • noun drain an instance or cause of continuous diminution in resources or energy; depletion 0
  • noun drain a device, such as a tube, for insertion into a wound, incision, or bodily cavity to drain off pus, etc 0
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