drain

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (intransitive) To lose liquid.
2. (intransitive) To flow gradually.
3. (ergative, transitive) To cause liquid to flow out of.
4. (ergative, transitive) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
5. (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
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) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
9. (archaic, slang, transitive) To drink.
10. (slang, transitive) To make a shot.

Conceitos

drenar

ralo

dreno

escoadouro

drenagem

secar

escoar

esgoto

desembocar

duto

estancar

tubulação

ducto

condutas

canal

águas residuais

consumo

enfraquecer

esgotar

esvaziar

evacuar

bueiro

debilitar

Sinônimos

gutter

ditch

sewer

empty

channel

exhaust

conduit

strain

draw out

discharge

drainage

dry

canal

deplete

spill

drainage ditch

waste pipe

filter

drainpipe

unload

duct

trench

drip

sink

sluice

pour

overflow

pour out

milk

🥛

gully

run out

drink up

bleed

🩸

evacuate

culvert

enfeeble

tap

trickle

disburden

squeeze

shed

tube

pipe

dump

let out

drop

furrow

debilitate

draw

consume

Traduções

drainer

drenar

entwässern

drain

desaguar

vider

trockenlegen

scolo

scolare

assécher

αυλάκι

puisard

dränieren

Ablauf

Abfluss

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dɹeɪn/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: dreinen

Herdado de inglês arcaico: drēahnian

Cognato com inglês arcaico: drūgian

Cognato com inglês arcaico: drūgaþ

Cognato com inglês arcaico: drȳġe

In summary

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.