to drain (off)
31Drain (plumbing) — Pool drain vortex as viewed from above the water at Grange Park wading pool …
32Drain Induced Barrier Lowering — As channel length decreases, the barrier φB to be surmounted by an electron from the source on its way to the drain reduces Drain induced barrier lowering or DIBL is a secondary effect in MOSFETs referring originally to a reduction of threshold… …
33drain — [[t]dreɪn[/t]] v. t. 1) to draw off (a liquid) gradually 2) to empty by drawing off liquid 3) to exhaust the strength or resources of 4) to flow off or empty gradually 5) a pipe, conduit, etc., by which a liquid drains 6) an act of draining 7)… …
34drain — To conduct water from one place to another, for the purpose of drying the former. To make dry; to draw off water; to rid land of its superfluous moisture by adapting or improving natural water courses and supplementing them, when necessary, by… …
35drain — To conduct water from one place to another, for the purpose of drying the former. To make dry; to draw off water; to rid land of its superfluous moisture by adapting or improving natural water courses and supplementing them, when necessary, by… …
36drain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. draw off, empty, exhaust, leak, drip, dry up. n. outlet, spout, sewer, ditch, gutter. See water, use, dryness, egress, waste, cleanness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A pipe or conduit] Syn. duct, channel,… …
37drain — [OE] The underlying meaning of drain seems to be ‘making dry’. It comes ultimately from *draug , the same prehistoric Germanic base as produced English drought and dry, and in Old English it meant ‘strain through a cloth or similar porous medium’ …
38drain — [OE] The underlying meaning of drain seems to be ‘making dry’. It comes ultimately from *draug , the same prehistoric Germanic base as produced English drought and dry, and in Old English it meant ‘strain through a cloth or similar porous medium’ …
39drain — I. v. a. 1. Draw off. 2. Empty, exhaust. 3. Make dry, clear of water or moisture. II. v. n. 1. Flow off. 2. Become dry. III. n. Sewer, channel, trench, ditc …
40drain — v 1. draw off, sluice, pump off, withdraw, remover take away; extract, milk, tap, broach; filter, filtrate, percolate. 2. deprive, impoverish, pauperize, ruin; consume, empty, expend, deplete, exhaust; tax, sap, bleed, enervate, devitalize;… …
