英语词汇“drainage basins”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

drain /drān/

transitive verb

To draw off by degrees

To filter

To draw off water, sewage or other liquid from

To provide a means of drainage, to install a drain

To make dry

To drink dry

To exhaust

intransitive verb

To flow off gradually

To lose liquid gradually (eg by trickling or dripping)

To discharge

noun

A watercourse

A channel allowing liquid to drain

A tube used to draw off fluid from a wound or cavity (medicine)

A ditch

A sewer

A drink (slang)

Expenditure that exhausts or diminishes

ORIGIN: OE drēahnian

drainˈable adjective

drainˈage noun

An act, process, method or means of draining

Means of discharging water

The system of drains in a town

drainˈer noun

A device on which articles are placed to drain

drainage basin noun

The area of land that drains into one river

drainˈage-tube noun

A tube for discharge of pus, etc

draining board (or US drainˈboard) noun

A sloping surface beside a sink, where dishes, etc are placed to drain when washed

drainˈpipe noun

drainˈ-tile noun

drainˈ-trap noun

A contrivance for preventing the escape of foul air from drains, while admitting water to them

down the drain (informal)