drain
/dɹiːn/ sustantivo B2En español: desagüe, drenaje, desaguador, desaguadero
- A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK) · The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.· bathtub drain; floor drain; shower drain; sink drain
- A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land. · ;;Saganing Drain, Vermuyden's Drain, the South Drain river, Najafgarh drain
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return. · That rental property is a drain on our finances.
- An act of urination.
- One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- An outhole.
Plural drains
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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Now, I knew that them two houses in Lauriston Gardens was empty on account of him that owns them who won’t have the drains seen to, though the very last tenant what lived in one of them died o’ typhoid fever.
IT was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school--a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain--amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue.
He was always a man of iron nerve, and the story is still told in India how he crawled down a drain after a wounded man-eating tiger.
“DEAR SIR.—It has struck me that it is our duty to drain the moat, in the hope that we may find some—”
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