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dragoon |
dragunov |
drain |
drain basket |
drain the cup |
drainage
| drainage area
| drainage basin
| drainage ditch
| drainage system
| drainboard
drainage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun drainage has 1 sense
- drainage(n = noun.act) drain - emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it; Array is a kind of emptying, evacuation, voidance
Derived forms verb drain3, verb drain1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
drainage, n.
1 the process or means of draining (the land has poor drainage).
2 a system of drains, artificial or natural.
3 what is drained off, esp. sewage.
1 the process or means of draining (the land has poor drainage).
2 a system of drains, artificial or natural.
3 what is drained off, esp. sewage.
THESAURUS
drainage
air-drying, anhydration, aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, cupping, defecation, defluxion, dehumidification, dehydration, depletion, desiccation, discharge, discharging cargo, drafting, drain, draining, drawing, drying, drying up, effluence, efflux, effluxion, effusion, egress, elimination, emptying, evacuation, evaporation, excretion, exhalation, exhaust, exhausting, exhaustion, flowoff, gush, insolation, milking, mummification, off-loading, outfall, outflow, outflowing, outpour, outpouring, phlebotomy, pipetting, pumping, removal, runoff, siphoning, sucking, suction, tapping, unloading, venesection, venting, voidance, voiding, witheringROGET THESAURUS
drainage
Cleanness
N cleanness, cleanliness, purity, cleaning, purification, defecation, purgation, lustration, detersion, abstersion, epuration, mundation, ablution, lavation, colature, disinfection, drainage, sewerage, lavatory, laundry, washhouse, washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman, scavenger, dustman, sweep, white wings brush, broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter, blotter, napkin, cloth, maukin, malkin, handkerchief, towel, sudary, doyley, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab, cover, drugget, wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative, purifier, disinfectant, aperient, benzene, benzine benzol, benolin, bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative, clean, cleanly, pure, immaculate, spotless, stainless, taintless, trig, without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected, sweet, sweet as a nut, neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens, cleaned, kempt, abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying, neatly, clean as a whistle.Egress
N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.Ejection
N ejection, emission, effusion, rejection, expulsion, exportation, eviction, extrusion, trajection, discharge, emesis, vomiting, vomition, egestion, evacuation, ructation, eructation, bloodletting, venesection, phlebotomy, paracentesis, expuition, exspuition, tapping, drainage, clearance, clearage, deportation, banishment, rouge's march, relegation, extradition, dislodgment, bouncer, chucker-out, vomit, vomitus, puke, barf, emitting, emitted Int, begone!, get you gone!, get away, go away, get along, go along, get along with you, go along with you!, go your way!, away with!, off with you!, get the hell out of here!, go about your business!, be off!, avaunt!, aroynt!, allez-vous-en!, jao!, va-t'en!.Dryness
N dryness, siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water, exsiccation, desiccation, arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage, drier, desiccative, dessicator, dessicator, hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier, vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln, lyophilizer, clothesline, dry, anhydrous, arid, adust, arescent, dried, undamped, juiceless, sapless, sear, husky, rainless, without rain, fine, dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit, water proof, water tight, dehydrated, dessicated.
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