drainage
/'dreinidʤ/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The process or system of removing water or other liquids from an area: "Drainage" refers to the action or method of allowing a liquid, especially water, to flow away from a place.
- The liquid that is drained away: "Drainage" can also refer to the water or waste liquid that has been removed.
Usage
- Drainage is primarily used as an uncountable noun to describe the general process or system.
- It is commonly used in contexts related to agriculture, civil engineering, construction, and medicine.
Examples
- Noun:
- The field's poor drainage caused the crops to rot after the heavy rains.
- The city is upgrading its storm drainage system to prevent flooding.
- The surgeon inserted a tube for wound drainage.
Advanced Usage
- "drainage basin": (also called a catchment area or watershed) the area of land from which all precipitation flows to a single stream or set of streams.
- The Mississippi River has a very large drainage basin.
- "drainage ditch": a trench constructed to channel water away from an area.
- They dug a drainage ditch along the side of the road.
Variants and Related Words
- Drain (verb/noun): To draw off liquid gradually; or a pipe or channel that carries away liquid.
- They needed to drain the swamp. The kitchen drain is clogged.
- Drainable (adjective): Capable of being drained.
- The soil is not very drainable.
Synonyms
- Runoff: Water, often from rain or melting snow, that flows over the ground surface.
- Sewerage: The system of sewers (pipes) that carries sewage or wastewater.
- Efflux (formal): The flowing out of a substance.
Related Phrases
- To improve drainage: To enhance the ability of an area to remove excess water.
- Adding gravel will improve drainage in the garden bed.
- Drainage pattern: The arrangement in which a river's tributaries and its trunk stream drain the surrounding land.
- The geologist studied the drainage pattern on the map.
Noun
- emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it