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Definition: Drain |
DrainNoun1. Emptying accomplished by draining. 2. Tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material. 3. A pipe through which liquid is carried away. 4. A gradual depletion; "a drain on resources". Verb1. Flow off gradually; "The rain water drains into this big vat". 2. Drain of resources. 3. Empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank". 4. Flow off or away gradually; "The water drained from the pipe". 5. Make weak; "Life in the camp drained him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Drain \Drain\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Drained; Draining.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Drain v. [IBM] Syn. for flush (sense 2). Has a connotation of finality about it; one speaks of draining a device before taking it offline. Source: Jargon File. |
Building & Civil Engineering | A conduit below the surface of the ground ; pipe of burnt clay, concrete, etc. , in short lengths, used as a conduit in subsurface drainage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | Something that causes depletions (as of resources): burden, strain (. . . the medical and social care of old people. . . constitutes a heavy -- on the economic resources of society - M. A. A) . . Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A structure made of wooden slats put over the outlet of a fermenting tank to hold back the skins when devatting(South Africa). Source: European Union. (references) |
| Open channel, usually of cement, to carry away water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The(annual or periodic)loss in growing stock from any cause. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Language | To flow off gradually (blood draining from a wound). Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A conduit or open ditch for carrying off surplus ground or surface water.Closed drains are usually buried. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | DRAIN. Gin: so called from the diuretic qualities imputed to that liquor. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Drain is a city located in Douglas County, Oregon. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,021.Geography
Drain is located at 43°39'42" North, 123°18'53" West (43.661647, -123.314808)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.4 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.4 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,021 people, 397 households, and 289 families residing in the city. The population density is 730.0/km² (1,879.0/mi²). There are 441 housing units at an average density of 315.3/km² (811.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 90.60% White, 0.10% African American, 2.64% Native American, 0.49% Asian, 0.29% Pacific Islander, 1.57% from other races, and 4.31% from two or more races. 3.33% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 397 households out of which 36.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.7% are married couples living together, 13.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.0% are non-families. 22.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.57 and the average family size is 3.02. In the city the population is spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 96.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.5 males. The median income for a household in the city is $27,833, and the median income for a family is $34,231. Males have a median income of $30,278 versus $20,063 for females. The per capita income for the city is $13,810. 10.3% of the population and 8.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 10.3% are under the age of 18 and 7.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drain, Oregon."
Synonyms: DrainSynonyms: drainage (n), drainpipe (n), waste pipe (n), debilitate (v), enfeeble (v), flow away (v), flow off (v), run out (v), sap (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: guttered (mining). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain. |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
Dryness | Render dry. Adjective: dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab, wipe; drain. |
Egress | Noun: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush; (water in motion); outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling; Verb: defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge; (excretion). |
Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape. | |
Prodigality | Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe. |
Remedy | Verb: apply a remedy; Noun: doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent; relieve; palliate; restore; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let blood; manicure. |
Taking | Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech. |
Uncleanness | Dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole. |
Waste | Verb: spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drain |
| English words defined with "drain": Barrel drain ♦ drain basket ♦ Spray drain, Straw drain ♦ Tile drain, Turf drain ♦ Water drain, Well drain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drain": catch drain, catchwater drain, curtain drain ♦ drain tunnel ♦ intercepting drain ♦ outlet drain ♦ parasitic drain resistance ♦ subsoil plow with mole drain ♦ Toe Drain. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "drain": Drein. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Drain" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (drain, tap), German (ablassen). |
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Screenplays | Millions down the drain. (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis) A Cromwell would call up five million coloured men from the Empire, and not drain Britain of her wealth producing resources (Labour of Love; writing credit: Andrea Piva) Did I mention we are having a new drain installed (Emma; writing credit: Douglas McGrath) It takes a woman all powdered and pink to joylously clean out the drain in the sink (Hello, Dolly!; writing credit: Ernest Lehman; Michael Stewart) Dames are put on this earth to weaken us, drain our energy, laugh at us when they see us naked (Johnny Dangerously; writing credit: Harry Colomby; Jeff Harris) | |
Lyrics | Sees oceans running down the drain. (Maria; performing artist: Blondie) Aspirations in the clouds but your hopes go down the drain (NO ONE IS TO BLAME; performing artist: Howard Jones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | From the Drain (1967) The Rain Drain (1966) | |
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 | Canal used to drain property to convert and maintain former marsh land to pasture. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Water fills natural depressional areas after heavy rains in north central Iowa. This area has been tiled to allow for rowcroppinng but the tile is not adequate to drain all the water quickly. Soil surveys point out such soil types. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | One of the ponds built to support wildlife in the Venedy, IL. area drain valve testing. Credit: USDA. |  | False Solomon's Seal (Smilacina racemosa) found at West Fork Evans Creek Drain gage (Rock Creek). Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
 | Nicaraguan men working on drain tiles. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Another myth down the drain. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Food in England. Members of the Women's Land Army in Britain help drain marshy land to provide extra arable acreage and grazing ground. With three large drag-line machines they are preparing 4,000 acres of soggy Devon land for grazing. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | International Nickel Co. at the Pentagon. Close-up of gutter showing drain cover at the Pentagon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Drain" by Jed DuCaine Commentary: "A flooded drain at Pt Adelaide, SA, Australia." | "Drain" by Vincent Tang Commentary: "Kitchen sink drain." |
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 | Water slowly draining and bubbling through a clogged drain. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Shunts are flexible tubes used to reroute and drain fluid. (references) | |
The emotional drain on both patient and family is immeasurable. (references) | ||
When your sinus openings become too narrow, mucus cannot drain properly. (references) | ||
Business | The reason cited by most of them is the huge demand of IT professionals in the west and so there is a lot of brain drain form Pakistan. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | Brain drain is a major concern for the future of Jamaican labor. (references) |
Colombia | Capital flight and brain drain continue to undermine the country's economic force. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | However, a growing shortage of technical skills is becoming evident, exacerbated by an accelerating brain drain. (references) | |
Minorities | Togo | Many citizens believe that Nigerian Ibos kill young women, drain their blood, and steal their sex organs to perform voodoo to accumulate wealth, health, or protection. (references) |
Political Economy | GREECE | Greece's social security program has also been a major drain on public spending. (references) |
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | These caused a drain on foreign exchange reserves and left a large fiscal deficit. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | The Government has moved to curb the proliferation of monasteries, which it contends are a drain on local resources and a conduit for political infiltration by the Tibetan exile community. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Nor can their children or grandchildren always sacrifice their own health budgets to meet this constant drain. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The best way to keep Social Security a rock-solid guarantee is not to make drastic cuts in benefits, not to raise payroll tax rates, not to drain resources from Social Security in the name of saving it. |
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| "Drain" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 59.63% of the time. "Drain" is used about 908 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 59.63% | 541 | 11,416 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 27.06% | 246 | 19,009 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.43% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 908 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "drain" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Drain | Last name | 2,000 | 5,166 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Drain, OR (city, FIPS 20500) |
Expressions using "drain": Barrel drain ♦ Box drain ♦ brain drain ♦ buried drain ♦ catch drain ♦ catchwater drain ♦ chuck down the drain ♦ Counter drain ♦ covered drain ♦ curtain drain ♦ deck drain ♦ down the drain ♦ drain away ♦ drain basket ♦ drain cleaning liquid ♦ drain cock ♦ drain district ♦ drain dry ♦ drain joints ♦ drain of ♦ drain off ♦ drain on the purse ♦ drain one's glass at a draught ♦ drain opener ♦ drain openings ♦ drain out ♦ drain pipe ♦ drain relief plug ♦ drain the cup ♦ drain the cup of misery to the dregs ♦ drain the cup to the lees ♦ drain tile ♦ drain to the dregs ♦ drain trap ♦ field drain ♦ field drain pipe ♦ foreign drain ♦ go down the drain ♦ gold drain ♦ gully drain ♦ gully drain hole ♦ intercepting drain ♦ lateral drain ♦ laugh like a drain ♦ manpower drain ♦ oil drain plug ♦ outlet drain ♦ parasitic drain resistance ♦ pour down the drain ♦ right of drain ♦ spray drain ♦ Straw drain ♦ subsoil plow with mole drain ♦ subsurface drain ♦ throw money down the drain ♦ throw one's money down the drain ♦ Tile drain ♦ to go down the drain ♦ turf drain ♦ water drain ♦ well drain. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drain": drain-age, drain-all, drain-clogging, drain-ditch, drain-edged, drain-gate, drain-hole, drain-holes, drain-like, drain-pipe, drain-pipe trousers, drain-pipes, drain-runs, drain-tiles. | |
Ending with "drain": brain-drain. | |
Containing "drain": trap-and-drain auger. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
french drain | 916 | drain fly | 41 |
drain | 244 | drain french install | 38 |
drain sth | 141 | drain cleaners | 35 |
clogged drain | 123 | storm drain | 34 |
drain tile | 109 | drain pool swimming | 33 |
trench drain | 96 | unclog a drain | 33 |
drain cleaning | 85 | drain grate | 32 |
drain pipe | 64 | slow drain | 29 |
roof drain | 59 | commercial drain cleaning | 29 |
floor drain | 58 | drain cleaning services | 29 |
channel drain | 55 | foundation drain | 28 |
drain cleaner | 55 | residential drain cleaning services | 28 |
brain drain | 53 | drain yard | 27 |
bath tub drain | 51 | drain french installation | 27 |
drain field | 49 | septic drain field | 26 |
installing french drain | 48 | drain snake | 25 |
shower drain | 48 | drain plug | 24 |
deck drain | 48 | aco drain | 23 |
pool drain | 45 | curtain drain | 23 |
drain cover | 44 | french drain system | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "drain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afwater, aftap (bottle, derive). (various references) | |
Albanian | drenazhoj, shter (exhaust, spend, stew), gllënjkë (craving, drachm, draft, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, longing, mouthful, nip, peg, pull, sip, smack, sup, swallow, swig, thirst, traction), kanal (aqueduct, canal, chamfer, channel, conduit, cut, ditch, duct, excavation, flute, Fosse, gully, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, trench, tube, watercourse), kulloj (clarify, decant, defecate, exude, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, Leach, percolate, seep, strain, stream), kullon, kullues, pi me fund (drink up, quaff), zbraz (clear, clear out, deplenish, deplete, discharge, draw, dump, effuse, empty, empty out, evacuate, exhaust, flux, Lade, make a hole in, outpour, overrun, pour out, purge, shoot, tap, unload, unlock, void), shterim (depletion, fixation), shteroj (deplete, dry up, fail, give out, peter out), thahet (die away, die down, dry off, dry out, dry up, parch, wither), thaj (blot, desiccate, drink off, dry, dry up, exsiccate, feel cool, sap, sear, torrefy, wipe out, wither), therkë (derivation canal, gutter, oar), tubacion (duct, funnel, pipes, piping, tubing), largim (alienation, avulsion, back track, backtrack, departure, deviousness, dissimilation, elimination, evacuation, expulsion, getaway, leave, moving away, parting, recession, removal). (various references) | |
Arabic | تلاشى (disappear, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate, fade, fall, flee, fly, go to pieces, melt, molder, moulder, pass out of sight, peter, trail, vanish), إرتشاح (infiltration, leak, leakage), إستنزاف (depletion, exhaustion), إستنزف (deplete, exhaust, milk), المياه المصرفية, جف (dry, dry up, run dry, season), خسارة (damage, disadvantage, doom, injury, leakage, loss, miscarriage, mischief, perdition, prejudice, ruination, sacrifice, seep, seepage, spoilage, wastage), شرب (bib, drink, imbibe, impregnate, infuse, ingrain, inoculate, quaff, stain, steep), تصريف (inflection), فرغ (be empty, become empty, complete, conclude, discharge, dry out, empty, end, evacuate, finalize, finish, pour, terminate, vacate, void), تفريى, نزف (haemorrhage, hemorrhage), مجاري (cesspit, drainage, sewerage), مصرف (declensional, ditch, drainage, inflective, outlet, vent), مسرب (leaky), مياه مصارف, سال تدريجيا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отводнителен канал (dike), изпивам (consume, down, drink, drink up, lower, put away, shift, suck down, suck up, take off), изтощаване (extenuation), изразходвам (disburse, eat up, exhaust, expend, spend, spin out, use up), изсъхвам (become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, crisp, dry, dry up, get dry, mummify, parch, sear, season), пресушавам (draw, dry up, suck dry, torrefy), бреме (burden, burthen, charge, deadweight, drag, encumbrance, exaction, fardel, freight, incubus, load, onus, tax, tie, weight), дренирам, обезводнявам (dehydrate), снабдявам с канализация, отводнителна тръба, отводнявам, оттичам се (flow away), водосточна тръба (discharger, gutter, leader, spout, waterspout), глътка (drachm, drag, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, lap, mouthful, peg, pharynx, potion, pull, shot, sip, sup, swallow, taste), катетър (catheter), разход (cost, expenditure, expense, outgo), лишавам (abridge, bereave, bereft, denude, drain of, pinch, shear, starve). (various references) | |
Chinese | 排水 , 澮 (stream), 流失, 渠 (big, ditch, stream or canal). (various references) | |
Czech | zátìž (ballast, onus, tie), vysušit (desiccate, drain off, dry up, exsiccate, wither), vypustit (deflate, launch, let down, let off, let out, release, run off), vypít (drink up, empty, take), vyèerpat (deplete, do up, enervate, exhaust, fatigue, suck up, tire out, use up, wear, work out), stoka (ditch, gutter, sewer, sink), scedit (decant), plundrovat (exhaust), odvádìt, odtékat (flow away), odpad (detritus, offal, outfall, outlet, refuse, scrap, waste), odkapat, kanál (canal, channel, ditch, gutter, sink, sluice way, station), břemeno (burden, Comber, encumbrance, onus, pack, weight). (various references) | |
Danish | draenroer (buried drain, covered drain, drain pipe, drain tile, field drain, field drain pipe, land pipe, lateral drain, subsoil pipe, subsurface drain, underdrain), draen (buried drain, covered drain, drain pipe, drain tile, field drain, field drain pipe, land pipe, lateral drain, subsoil pipe, subsurface drain, underdrain), dræn (discharge, eduction, emptying, filter, filter zone, oil change, reservoir, reservoir compound, reservoir species, sink, sink species, store), udvask, smal udgravning (grip), rende (apron, channel, chute, cutting, diversion cut, duct, furrow, glass receiver, grip, groove, gut, gutter, lead, rill, scoop, sulcus, tin, tray, tray bar, trench, trough), reduktion af vedmasse, oliedræn (discharge, oil bleeding, oil change, oil discharge, oil drain), kloak (cloaca, sewer), bykanal (town canal), afvandingskanal (drainage canal, sewer), aftapning (discharge, eduction, emptying, oil change), afløb (drain-pipe, outlet-pipe, waste-pipe), afgang (departure). (various references) | |
Dutch | neerdruipen (drip down, trickle down), aftappen (bottle, derive, tap), afdruipen (drip down, slink off, trickle down). (various references) | |
Esperanto | dreniĝi, dreni, deguti (drip down, trickle down). (various references) | |
Farsi | کشیدن(باoffیاaway), زیراب زدن , زیراب (Underwater), زهکشی کردن , زهکش فاضل اب , زهکش (Drainpipe, Gully), ابگذر (Conduit, Dike, Drainpipe, Gulch, Gullet, Gully), اب کشیدن از. (various references) | |
Finnish | salaoja (buried drain, covered drain, drain pipe, drain tile, field drain, field drain pipe, land pipe, lateral drain, subsoil pipe, subsurface drain, underdrain). (various references) | |
French | drain (buried drain, covered drain, drain pipe, drain tile, field drain, field drain pipe, lateral drain, subsurface drain, tile drains), drainer. (various references) | |
Frisian | ôfwetterje, ôftaapje (bottle, derive). (various references) | |
German | entwässern (dehydrate, draining, to drain), ablauf (circulation, course, development, draining away, expiration, expiry, flowing off, lapse, order of events, outlet, passing, sequence, sequence of events, termination), ablassen (abandon, blow off, desist, discount, drain off, empty, exhale, knock off, leave off, let off, rebate, surcease, to desist, to drain, to surcease), abfluss (discharge, drainage, draining away, outflow, outlet). (various references) | |
Greek | στραγγίζω (drip, strain, wring). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליבש (dehydrate, desiccate, dry, wither), להתיבש (dry, dry up, shrivel), להתרוקן (empty), להתנקז, לרוקן (deplete, empty, evacuate, strip, void), לנקז (drain off), תעלת נקוז (dike, dyke), ביוב (canalization, drainage, sewerage), ביב (duct, gutter, sewer), צנור נקוז (drain pipe), נקיזה, נקוז (drainage), נקז. (various references) | |
Hungarian | dréncső (drain-pipe, subdrain), utcai víznyelő (sewer), leszûr, lefolyócső (leader, spout, waste), lecsapol (drawn, drew, to aspirate, to drain, to draw, to lay dry, to tap), kiszárít (desiccate, drain off, exsiccate, to coarsen, to desiccate, to drain, to scorch, to sear, to sere, to shrivel, to wizen), kimerül (Peter, run down, run out, to be at an end, to be run down, to crap out, to drain, to fatigue, to give out, to peter out), kanális (gutter, sewer), igénybevétel (requisition, requisitioning, strain, stress, tax), elvonás (abstraction, distraction), elfolyik (flow away, to drain, to go to waste, to run to waste), csatornáz (canal, canalize, channel, gutter, to channel, to drain, to gutter), csatorna (aqueduct, canal, channel, conduit, course, delf, delft, ditch, duct, flume, furrow, gutter, tubule, watercourse), alagcsõ, alagcső (drain-pipe, leader, subdrain, tile underdrain). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyalurkan (dispense, distribute), mengeringkan, mengalirkan (aim, channel, shed, siphon, sluice), got (gutter), cerat (faucet, pour through, spigot). (various references) | |
Italian | drenaggio (drainage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ドル箱 (drain cock, drape, dress, dress shirt, dress suit, dress up, dressmaker, dressmaking, milch cow, patron), 暗渠 (culvert), 暗きょ (culvert), 捌 (break, deal with, dispose of, flow off, handle, sell, tear), 溝 2 (ditch, gap, gutter), 溝 1 (ditch, gap, gutter), 溝 (10^38, ditch, gap, gutter, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion), 放水路 (drainage ditch), 下水道 (drainage system, sewer). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドレイン , さばき (break, deal with, decision, dispose of, flow off, handle, judgment, sell, tear, tribunal, verdict), どぶ (ditch, gap, gutter), ほうすいろ (drainage ditch), あんきょ (culvert, easy life), げすいどう (drainage system, sewer), みぞ (ditch, gap, gutter, right hand side). (various references) | |
Korean | 하수구 (sewer). (various references) | |
Manx | teaumey (bail, bail as small boat, bale, baling, decant, decantation, draining, draw off, drawing off, empty, empty of liquid, pour out, pouring, pump empty, pump out, run off, tax as strength; teeming, tax; teeming, tip, tip as lorry), sornaig (sewer), piob-heelee, jeeigey (ditch, ditching, draining, exhaust, hollow, tilt), jeeiganey, folmaghey (blow out, clear out, deflate, deflation, deplenish, depletion, discharge, drink up, empty, evacuation, hollow, unburden, vacate, void), chirmaghey (cure, dessicate, dry). (various references) | |
Norwegian | drenere, avløp. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aindray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dreno (dredge, tile drains), drenar (bleed, ditch, tap, tump). (various references) | |
Romanian | deseca, desenare (drawing), dren, drena, drenaj (drainage, draining), duşcã (draught, drink, drop, gulp, plug, sip, snack, swallow, thimbleful), golire (bleeding, depletion, emptying, evacuation, exhaustion), întinde la uscat, asana (improve, reclaim, reorganize), asanare (inning, sanitation), bea pânã la ultimul strop (leave no heel-taps), canal de scurgere (culvert, horn-gate, leader, sewer, spout, watercourse), cheltuialã (consumption, disbursement, expenditure, expense, outgo, waste), înghiţiturã (dram, draught, drink, go, gulp, pull, sip, sup, swallow, swig), goli (clean, clear, deplenish, deplete, empty, evacuate, exhaust, let out, relax, shoot, void), usca (air, desiccate, dry, exsiccate, parch, sap, scorch, sear, season, swelter), rigolã (channel, ditch, gully, gutter, trench), scurge (buzz, exhaust, gather, strain), scurge banii (bleed), scurgere (course, discharge, drainage, effluence, effluent, efflux, escape, flow, issue, lapse, leakage, leaking, loss, March, overflow, passage, passing, running, trickling), se scurge (dribble, ebb, elapse, flow, fly by, lapse, lapse away, pass, pass by, run, slip away, slip by, stream, wear out), se usca (dry up, parch, scorch, season), seca (dry, empty, exhaust, peter out, run dry, torment, torture), secãtui (exhaust, impoverish), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), sorbi (absorb, devour, drink, drink in, imbibe, quaff, sip, sup, swallow), stoarce (crush, exhaust, express, extort, extort from, fleece, force, milk, pinch, press, screw, soak, squeeze, swindle, twist, wring), tub de drenaj, epuiza (consume, crock, deplete, distress, drive, emaciate, exhaust, jade, outwork, overdrive, prostrate, spend, use up, waste). (various references) | |
Russian | осушать (drain off, dran), дренаж (catchment, drainage), дренажная труба (culvert, drainpipe, tile, trap), дренажная трубка (drainage-tube), истощать (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, outwear, sap, sapped, sapping, wear out), истощение (attenuation, attrition, consumption, debilitation, decrepitude, depletion, distress, emaciation, exhaustion, extenuation, goneness, inanition, leanness, tabescence), пить до дна, дренировать, проводить канализацию, стекать в реку, осушать утечка, водосток (gully), вытекание (outflow), глоток (draught, drink, drop, gulp, mouthful, nip, potation, sip, suck, sup, swallow, swig), канава (canal, dike, ditch, outfall, runnel, trench), расход (consumption, cost and handling, disbursements, expenditure, expense, outgo, span), стекать (drip, flow down), постоянная утечка. (various references) | |
Scottish | dèabh, traogh (ebb, exhaust, subside), taosg (a pour, a rush out; exact full of, empty, pump). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drenirati, trošak (charge, cost, expenditure, expense, outgo, outlay), oteći (bilge, flow, swell, tumefy), odvodna cev (discharge pipe, drainpipe, spout, waste pipe), odvod (drain away, let off, sluice), odliv (cast, flowing, reflux), iznuriti (beat out, debilitate, fag, jade, run down, tell on, wear out), izliv (blaze, ebullition, effluence, outburst, outflow, outpour, outpouring, sally), isušiti (drain off, dry up, exsiccate), iskapiti (empty, tope), isisati (suck out). (various references) | |
Spanish | desagüe (drainage, draining, gutter, outfall, outflow, outlet, plughole), sumidero (sink, sinkhole, sump), desaguar (bail, empty, exhaust), desaguadero (outfall, outlet). (various references) | |
Swedish | dräneringsrör (drainpipe), dränera, avlopp (canalization, drainage, outlet, sewer), avdika. (various references) | |
Thai | ใช้จนหมด, ท่อระบายน้ำ, ทำให้เหนื่อย (gruelling, tire), การใช้จนหมดสิ้น, ระบายออก, หมด (go, low). (various references) | |
Turkish | dışa akma, dışa boşalma, mali yük, akmak (bleed, course, discharge, drain away, drain off, fall into, flow, issue, leak, pour, pour itself, pour out, run, run down, run out, sluice, splutter, stream, well forth, well out, well up), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clean out, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain away, drain off, draw off, drop off, dump, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, excrete, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void), boru (barrel, bugle, channel, Clarion, conduit, duct, horn, pipe, trump, trumpet, tube), kanal (canal, chamfer, channel, chute, conduit, culvert, dike, duct, flume, gullet, gully, meatus, pass, passage, station, vessel), kanalizasyon (drainage, gully drain, sewage, sewerage), akıtmak (disembogue, drain away, drain off, drip, funnel, pour, shed, spill, stream, trickle, weep), lağım (cloaca, gallery, mine, sewer, shot), yarayı temizlemek, masraf (charge, cost, damage, disbursement, drain on the purse, expenditure, expense, outgo, outlay, payment), pansuman yapmak (dress), pis su borusu (drain pipe, soil pipe), süzülmek (be filtered, distil, distill, filter, float, flow, glide, percolate, plane, ride, seep, soar, volplane), süzmek (bolt, clarify, contemplate, eye, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, Leach, measure, percolate, settle, strain), suyu çekilmek, suyunu çekmek (drain away), tüketmek (consume, deplete, destroy, dispose of, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, extinguish, finish, spend, swallow up, use up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off, work out), kurutmak (air, bake, corn, cure, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, dry, dry up, exhaust, parch, scorch, sear, season, shrivel, torrefy, weather, wither). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фільтрувати (decant, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, sift), відводити (abduct, allot, appoint, apportion, assign, avert, draw away, shunt, take back), водостік (bunny, gully, weeper), виснажувати (attenuate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, deplete, distress, emaciate, exhaust, impoverish, macerate, overcome, overdrive, prostrate, pull down, sap, use up, waste), витікати (emanate, leak away, ooze, outstream, run out, spring, spring out), витікання (discharge, effluence, emanation, escape, issue, ooze, outflow, outlet), осушувати (mop), постійне виснаження, дренаж (catchment, drainage). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tiêu hao, sự bòn rút hết, rãnh (ditch, runnel, rut, sewer), mương (dike, drain-ditch, dyke, spray-drain), cống (sluice-gate). (various references) | |
Welsh | hysbyddu (exhaust), ceuffos (ditch). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | sur. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adficio, decollatorum, decollatum, decollavi, decollavit, ebibent, emissarii, emissariis, emissarium, exhaurient, exhauriet, hauri, hauriam, hauriant, haurias, hauriatur, hauriendam, hauriendas, hauriendum, hauriens, haurierant, hauriet, haurietis, haurire, hauriret, haurite, hauseris, hauserunt, hauseruntque, hausit, haustam, haustis, hausto, sicca, siccabit, siccabitur, siccabo, siccabuntur, siccans, siccante, siccaque, siccarentur, siccasque, siccasset, siccasti, siccata, siccatio, siccatus, siccaverit, siccavi, siccavit, siccentur, sicco. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Kings Chapter 18, Verse 38 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai epesen pur para kuriou ek tou ouranou kai katefagen to olokautwma kai taV scidakaV kai to udwr to en th qaala kai touV liqouV kai ton coun exelixen to pur |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cecidit autem ignis Domini et voravit holocaustum et ligna et lapides pulverem quoque et aquam quae erat in aquaeductu lambens |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe the fijr of the Lord felle, and deuowride the brent sacrifice, and the wode, and the stonus, forsothe the powdre, and the water that was in the water cundid lickynge. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt-sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Kings Chapter 18, Verse 38 |
| Cebuano | Unya ang kalayo ni Jehova nahulog, ug misunog sa halad-nga-sinunog, ug sa kahoy, ug sa mga bato, ug sa abug, ug gitilap ang tubig nga dinha sa kanal. |
| Croatian | I oganj Jahvin pade i proguta paljenicu i drva, kamenje i prašinu, èak i vodu u jarku isuši. |
| Danish | Da for HERRENs Ild ned og fortærede Brændofferet og Brændet og Stenene og Jorden; endog Vandet i Renden slikkede den bort. |
| Dutch | Toen viel het vuur de HEEREN, en verteerde dat brandoffer, en dat hout, en die stenen, en dat stof, ja, lekte dat water op, hetwelk in de groeve was. |
| Finnish | Silloin Herran tuli iski alas ja kulutti polttouhrin, puut, kivet ja mullan sekä nuoli veden, joka oli ojassa. |
| French | Et le feu de l`Éternel tomba, et il consuma l`holocauste, le bois, les pierres et la terre, et il absorba l`eau qui était dans le fossé. |
| German | Da fiel das Feuer des HERRN herab und fraß Brandopfer, Holz, Steine und Erde und leckte das Wasser auf in der Grube. |
| Hungarian | Akkor alászálla az Úr tüze, és megemészté az égõáldozatot, a fát, a köveket és a port, és felnyalta a vizet, a mely az árokban volt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu TUHAN mengirim api dari langit dan membakar hangus kurban itu bersama kayu apinya, batu-batunya dan tanahnya serta menjilat habis air yang terdapat di dalam parit itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, maka pada masa itu turunlah api dari pada Tuhan, lalu makan habis akan korban bakaran itu dan akan kayu apinya dan segala batu dan tanah itu dan dijilatnya habis akan segala air yang di dalam parit itu. |
| Maori | Na ko te tino takanga iho o te ahi a Ihowa, pau ake te tahunga tinana, me nga wahie, me nga kohatu, me te puehu, mitikia ake ana ano hoki te wai i roto i te waikeri. |
| Norwegian | Da falt Herrens ild ned og fortærte brennofferet og veden og stenene og jorden og slikket op vannet som var i grøften. |
| Rumanian | Atunci a cqzut foc dela Domnul, wi a mistuit arderea de tot, lemnele, pietrele wi pqmkntul, wi a supt wi apa care era kn wany. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drain": drainage, drainages, drained, drainer, drainers, draining, drainpipe, drainpipes, drains. (additional references) | |
Words containing "drain": undrained. (additional references) | |
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"Drain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adrain, arain, dain, daina, dairn, dairnt, D'aix, dani, darian, darib, darin, Darina, darni, Daryn, darzi, d'asino, deraim, derian, Deryabin, dhai, Diaion, diarn, Diran, draci, drai, draic, draine, Drainie, draino, drainy, dran, drane, draon, dravin, drawin, drean, dreen, drefn, dreien, Dreimne, Drevin, dria, drial, drien, Drii, drin, drinan, Drini, drizic, droan, droin, Dromin, droon, Drouin, Drouyn, druil, druin, druiz, Druzina, durain, edain, erian, frain, krain, orain, rdai, Udairn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drain" (pronounced drā"n) |
| 3 | -r ā" n | brain, constrain, crane, grain, ingrain, overtrain, rain, refrain, reign, rein, restrain, retrain, sprain, strain, train. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dinar, nadir, ranid. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: airn, arid, darn, nard, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind. | |
-2 letters: aid, ain, air, and, ani, din, rad, ran, ria, rid, rin. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, an, ar, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: aldrin, daring, denari, dinars, drains, durian, gradin, inroad, inward, nadirs, ordain, qindar, radian, rained, rancid, ranids, riband. | |
+2 letters: adoring, aldrins, andiron, android, aneroid, antired, araneid, barding, birdman, brained, brigand, cairned, carding, dandier, darings, darking, darling, darning, darting, denarii, deraign, detrain, diatron, diurnal, drained, drainer, draping, drawing, draying, durians, farding, gradine, grading, gradins, grained, handier, inarmed, inboard, indraft, indrawn, innards, inroads, invader, inwards, iracund, laniard, larding, mandril, nadiral, nardine, ordains, ordinal, padroni, pardine, poniard, qindars, radding, radians, radiant, raiding, randier, randies, ravined, reading, ribands, ribband, rimland, sadiron, sandier, sardine, trading, trained, unaired, unbraid, unitard, uranide, warding, yarding. | |
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