drain

Significado (Inglês)

1. A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
2. 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. Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
4. An act of urination.
5. One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
6. An outhole.
7. (slang) A drink.

gutter

ditch

drainage ditch

pour off

water-course

run out of

well out

drain off

let blood

outlet pipe

main pipe

be dried

be wrung dry

dry up deplete

out let

blow-off pipe

discharge outlet

current drain

pumping equipment

exit pipe

blowing tube

noz

foul water sewer

drainage well

flow out

radial flow

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Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dɹeɪn/

From Middle English dreinen, from Old English drēahnian (“to drain, strain, filter”), from Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną (“to strain, sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, parched”). Akin to Old English drūgian (“to dry up”), Old English drūgaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English drȳġe (“dry”). More at dry.

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