drainage
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈdreɪnɪdʒ/
:
drenaje
- To prevent water accumulation, proper drainage is essential in landscape design.
- drainage system
- drainage basin
- drainage ditch
If we're having drainage issues, you can stop it.
- If we're having drainage issues, you can stop it.
- They do have removable bottoms so that the pots will have drainage, but they're a little bit.
- So I do manual lymphatic drainage on my face.
- Also last night I forgot to film this, but I got a lymphatic drainage massage.
- It's looking up and really massaging, helps with the lymph drainage, but psychologically you just feel pepped up.
- It was soaking in ice water and I'm going to get in some some facial massage and a little lymphatic drainage.
- So basically just because of it's difficult with drainage and blah, blah.
Examples
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Over the next 6 weeks, two drainage procedures were done in a wind shelter.
Academic text (1992) -
Construction of canal systems for drainage and water-table management is often the first step.
Academic text (2011) -
So then all the drainage happens here.
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If we're having drainage issues, you can stop it.
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It's got incredible drainage, just amazing texture.
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Civil engineering, the drainage of districts and lands.
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There's an old drainage line just east of the church.
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The road is narrow, with no shoulder and sometimes steep drainage ditches on the sides.
Academic text (1990) -
Poor irrigation and drainage practices in Iraq have devastated the natural river systems.
Academic text (2008) -
Although considered basic needs, water supply, drainage, and sanitation are not always an investment priority in megacities.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
44
1.4
The act of letting liquid flow out
26
3.8
Water that flows over land after rain because the ground cannot absorb it
13
4.6
Movement of water, gas or money out of a place
3
3.5
A network of pipes and ditches that removes extra water from land
1
9.3
The flow of liquid waste out of a place like a factory
1
7.4
Removing water from a river or source for use
1
9.9
A flow of something out of a place, like water or chemicals
1
3.2
Pipes and channels that carry away extra water from an area
The act of removing liquid from a container or place
Removal of water from a site using pumps or drains
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.5
A hole that lets extra rain or water on the ground flow into the earth
- Specialized
1
4.0
A large area of land where all the rain and rivers flow into the same river or sea
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Morphology
Etymology
Drainage comes from the simple verb drain, which means 'to let water out' or 'draw off'. The ending -age turns that action into a thing, so drainage is the system or process of letting water or other liquid flow away — like a drainpipe that keeps a field, a house, or a wound from filling with water.