Definitions for drain
dreɪndrain

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drain, drainagenoun

   emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it

2. drainnoun

   tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material

3. drain, drainpipe, waste pipenoun

   a pipe through which liquid is carried away

4. drainverb

   a gradual depletion of energy or resources

   "a drain on resources"; "a drain of young talent by emigration"

5. drain, run outverb

   flow off gradually

   "The rain water drains into this big vat"

6. drainverb

   deplete of resources

   "The exercise class drains me of energy"

7. drainverb

   empty of liquid; drain the liquid from

   "We drained the oil tank"

8. enfeeble, debilitate, drainverb

   make weak

   "Life in the camp drained him"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drainnoun

   A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.

   The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.

   Etymology: dreinen (verb) from deahnian, from draug- "dry", akin to Old English drugian, drugaþ, Old English dryge. More at dry

2. drainnoun

   Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.

   That rental property is a drain on our finances.

   Etymology: dreinen (verb) from deahnian, from draug- "dry", akin to Old English drugian, drugaþ, Old English dryge. More at dry

3. drainnoun

   An act of urination.

   Etymology: dreinen (verb) from deahnian, from draug- "dry", akin to Old English drugian, drugaþ, Old English dryge. More at dry

4. drainnoun

   The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

   Etymology: dreinen (verb) from deahnian, from draug- "dry", akin to Old English drugian, drugaþ, Old English dryge. More at dry

5. drainverb

   To lose liquid.

   The clogged sink drained slowly.

   Etymology: dreinen (verb) from deahnian, from draug- "dry", akin to Old English drugian, drugaþ, Old English dryge. More at dry

6. drainverb

   To cause liquid to flow out of.

   Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.

   Etymology: dreinen (verb) from deahnian, from draug- "dry", akin to Old English drugian, drugaþ, Old English dryge. More at dry

7. drainverb

   To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

   They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.

   Etymology: dreinen (verb) from deahnian, from draug- "dry", akin to Old English drugian, drugaþ, Old English dryge. More at dry

8. drainverb

   To deplete of energy or resources.

   The stress of this job is really draining me.

   Etymology: dreinen (verb) from deahnian, from draug- "dry", akin to Old English drugian, drugaþ, Old English dryge. More at dry

9. drainverb

   To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

   Etymology: dreinen (verb) from deahnian, from draug- "dry", akin to Old English drugian, drugaþ, Old English dryge. More at dry

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drainverb

   to draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of

   Etymology: [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]

2. Drainverb

   to exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie

   Etymology: [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]

3. Drainverb

   to filter

   Etymology: [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]

4. Drainverb

   to flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off

   Etymology: [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]

5. Drainverb

   to become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain

   Etymology: [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]

6. Drainnoun

   the act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country

   Etymology: [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]

7. Drainnoun

   that means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink

   Etymology: [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]

8. Drainnoun

   the grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains

   Etymology: [AS. drehnigean to drain, strain; perh. akin to E. draw.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drain

   Drain is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,151 at the 2010 census. Drain is named after town founder and politician Charles J. Drain who donated 60 acres to the Oregon and California Railroad in 1871.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Drain

   drān, v.t. to draw off by degrees: to filter: to clear of water by drains: to make dry: to drink dry: to exhaust.—v.i. to flow off gradually.—n. a watercourse: a ditch: a sewer: (slang) a drink: exhausting expenditure.—adj. Drain′able.—ns. Drain′age, the drawing off of water by rivers or other channels: the system of drains in a town; Drain′age-basin, the area of land which drains into one river; Drain′age-tube, a tube of silver, india-rubber, glass, &c., introduced by a surgeon into a wound or abscess to draw off pus, &c.; Drain′er, a utensil on which articles are placed to drain; Drain′ing-en′gine, a pumping-engine for mines, &c.; Drain′ing-plough, a form of plough used in making drains; Drain′-pipe; Drain′-tile; Drain′-trap, a contrivance for preventing the escape of foul air from drains, but admitting the water into them. [A.S. dréahnigan—dragan, to draw.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drain

   [IBM] Syn. for flush (sense 2). Has a connotation of finality about it; one speaks of draining a device before taking it offline.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drain

   In the military art, is a trench made to draw water out of a ditch, which is afterwards filled with hurdles and earth, or with fascines or bundles of rushes, and planks, to facilitate the passage over the mud.

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1. drain

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Matched Categories

1. • Consume
   • Empty
   • Emptying
   • Surgery
   • Tube
   • Weaken

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'drain' in Verbs Frequency: #810

Anagrams for drain »

1. Darin, dinar, Drina, Indra, Nadir, nadir, Ndari, ranid

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of drain in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of drain in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of drain in a Sentence

1. Alvin Price:

   Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.

2. Michael Rapp:

   We’re thinking she blacked out in the bathtub and fell and hit her head and was found by my ex, we don’t know if maybe hair clogged the drain but the tub overflowed.

3. Grant Woods:

   I think Arizona is about a couple of election cycles behind Nevada in going blue, if the Republican Party wants to continue to push in the direction of being anti-education, and they want to be the party of... the bigoted, then they are going to go down the drain in the Southwestern US Senate, because that's not what Southwestern US Senate is. It's a very culturally diverse place that values education and is going in the opposite direction. You can see where [ the politics ] are going.

4. Orrville Police Department:

   She was stuck in the drain, was safely removed and set free in a nearby creek, as you can see she was happy to be rescued.

5. Johannes Teyssen:

   The question is should we heal the problem while it's still cheap, like the British did, or do you run it down the drain and when it's almost broken then you interfere.

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