Drainname

• 1

  A surname.

• 2

  A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

drainnoun/dɹeɪn/

• 1

  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
• 2

  An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.

• 3

  A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.

  • Saganing Drain, Vermuyden's Drain, the South Drain river, Najafgarh drain
  • […] the little runs and drains, that come through the hills, and to the sources of the creeks and their branches.
• 4

  Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.

  • That rental property is a drain on our finances.
• 5

  vulgarAn act of urination.

• 6

  businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityOne terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

• 7

  An outhole.

• 8

  datedslangA drink.

  • When the play was over, we came out together, and I said, "We've been very companionable and agreeable, and perhaps you wouldn't object to a drain?"
  • What did she want with money, except now and then for a drain of white satin.

drainverb/dɹeɪn/

• 1

  To lose liquid.

  • The clogged sink drained slowly.
  • Knock knock. / Who’s there? / Dwayne. / Dwayne who? / Drain the bathtub, I’m drowning.
• 2

  To flow gradually.

  • The water of low ground drains off.
• 3

  To cause liquid to flow out of.

  • Please drain the sink. It’s full of dirty water.
• 4

  To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

  • They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
• 5

  To deplete of energy or resources.

  • The stress of this job is really draining me.
• 6

  To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.

  • Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.
  • At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.
• 7

  obsoleteTo filter.

  • Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.
• 8

  To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

  • When a ball finally drains, it's gulped down by a giant gator beneath the set of flippers.