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Definition: Drainage System |
Drainage SystemNoun1. A system of watercourses or drains for carrying off excess water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Military | Rivers, streams, and other inland water features. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Drainage System |
| Specialty definitions using "drainage system": base flow ♦ catch basin, catchpit, cave system ♦ drop shaft ♦ grit trap ♦ inherited drainage, inlet sump ♦ mud trap, Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney ♦ separate system, silt trap, sump pit, superimposed drainage, superposed drainage. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | U.S. Army. Camp Hospital No.66, St. Sulpice, France. : Exterior view- Wash Room and Drainage system. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Those projects include restructuring of agricultural enterprises, rehabilitation of pipe stations in Karshi, creation of drainage system in the region of Amu-Darya river and the water supply and sanitation project in Samarqand and Bukhara. (references) | |
Economic History | Bahrain | The Tubli expansion project will involve other packages: one package for the sludge treatment plant and five for the expansion of the distribution network and one for the expansion of the drainage system. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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 |
drainage system | 92 |
advanced drainage system | 84 |
water drainage system | 15 |
drainage system yard | 10 |
basement drainage system | 9 |
deck drainage system | 7 |
advance drainage system | 5 |
acid drainage system waste | 3 |
american drainage system | 2 |
chest tube drainage system | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drainage system"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | overfladevand fra koerebane og skraaninger:afledes enten direkte til groefter eller via trug og render /rendesten/ gennem nedloebsbroende til en lukket langs-eller tvaergaaende afvanding (surface water on the carriageway and slopes is either collected directly into ditches or via channels and gutters into gullies and thence to an enclosed longitudinal or transverse drainage system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | het oppervlaktewater van rijweg en bermen wordt hetzij rechtstreeks door sloten afgevoerd,hetzij via greppels of goten door straatkolken in een langs-of dwarsriool geleid (surface water on the carriageway and slopes is either collected directly into ditches or via channels and gutters into gullies and thence to an enclosed longitudinal or transverse drainage system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | les eaux de surface de la chaussée et des talus sont évacuées soit directement dans des fosses soit,par l'intermédiaire de caniveaux et de cunettes,en passant par des pulsards grille,dans des canalisations longitudinales ou transversales (surface water on the carriageway and slopes is either collected directly into ditches or via channels and gutters into gullies and thence to an enclosed longitudinal or transverse drainage system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entwässerungssystem. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Τα επιφανειακά νερά του οδοστρώματος και των πρανών απάγονται είτε κατ'ευθείαν σε τάφρους είτε μέσω ρείθρων και συλλεκτηρίων τάφρων-διέρχ (surface water on the carriageway and slopes is either collected directly into ditches or via channels and gutters into gullies and thence to an enclosed longitudinal or transverse drainage system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vízelvezetõ rendszer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fognatura (drainage, sewerage system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 水系 , 下水" (drain, sewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すいけい (estimate, estimation), 'すいどう (drain, sewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ainagedray ystemsay as águas de superfície do pavimento e dos taludes são evacuadas seja directamente em poços,seja por meio de regos e valetas,passando por sarjetas de grelha,nas canalizações longitudinais ou transversais (surface water on the carriageway and slopes is either collected directly into ditches or via channels and gutters into gullies and thence to an enclosed longitudinal or transverse drainage system). (various references) drenaža (drainage). (various references) la escorrentía de la calzada y de los taludes se recoge directamente en zanjas o por canales y cunetas, llevándola a través de sumideros a los sistemas de drenaje longitudinales o transversales (surface water on the carriageway and slopes is either collected directly into ditches or via channels and gutters into gullies and thence to an enclosed longitudinal or transverse drainage system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-g-i-m-n-r-s-s-t-y" | |
-3 letters: sedimentary, smaragdites. | |
-4 letters: deaerating, deaminases, deaminates, denigrates, designates, dramatises, dreaminess, dynamiters, emarginate, eyestrains, eyestrings, gainsayers, germinated, germinates, gesneriads, magnesites, magnetised, magnetises, manageress, marginated, marginates, reanimated, reanimates, reassigned, segmentary, sidestream, smaragdine, smaragdite, steamering, stingarees, streamings, streamside, teargassed, tragedians. | |
-5 letters: adamsites, agenesias, agentries, amnestied, amnesties, andesites, andesytes, animaters, antimeres, arginases, arsenates, arsenides, arsenites, assegaied, asserting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 61 69 6E 61 67 65 53 79 73 74 65 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01010011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r a i n a g e   S y s t e m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0061 0069 006E 0061 0067 0065 0053 0079 0073 0074 0065 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38846775806773712539185867179 |
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