drain
noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(Canada, US)(chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.
- 2.
(UK)(chiefly UK) 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.
- 3.
A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
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.
- 4.
Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
That rental property is a drain on our finances.
- 5.
(vulgar)An act of urination.
- 6.
(electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- 7.
(pinball) An outhole.
- 8.
(UK, dated, slang)A drink.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To lose liquid.
The clogged sink drained slowly.
Knock knock. / Who’s there? / Dwayne. / Dwayne who? / Drain the bathtub, I’m drowning.
- 2.
(intransitive)To flow gradually.
The water of low ground drains off.
- 3.
(ergative, transitive)To cause liquid to flow out of.
Please drain the sink. It’s full of dirty water.
Đồng nghĩa: bleed
- 4.
(ergative, transitive)To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
- 5.
(transitive)To deplete of energy or resources.
The stress of this job is really draining me.
- 6.
(transitive)To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- 7.
(obsolete, transitive)To filter.
- 8.
(intransitive)(intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
- 9.
(archaic, slang, transitive)To drink.
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.
- 10.
(slang, transitive)(transitive, basketball, slang) To make a shot.
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Akin to drūgian, drūgaþ, drȳġe. More at dry.