drainage

drainage

See also: Drainage

English

Etymology

drain +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪnəd͡ʒ/

Noun

drainage (countable and uncountable, plural drainages)

1. A natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away.
2. A system of drains.
3. A downward wind.
   • 1960, N. P. Rusin, “The Radiation Balance of the Snow Surface of Antarctica”, in OG Krichak, editor, Scientific Conference on Problems of Meteorology of the Antarctic (Abstracts of Reports)(USSR)., page 29:

     In the forward part of the cyclone, drainage katabasis is checked; but its highest intensity is observed in the rear part of the cyclone.

Derived terms

• air drainage
• cholangiodrainage
• drainage basin
• drainage pipe
• drainage system
• drainageway
• nondrainage
• palaeodrainage
• positive drainage
• subdrainage
• updrainage

 

Translations

removal of fluid

Arabic: تَصْرِيف‎ m (taṣrīf) Bulgarian: дренаж m (drenaž) Catalan: drenatge m Chinese: Mandarin: 排水 (zh) Czech: odvodnění n, drenáž (cs) f Danish: dræning c, afvanding c Dutch: drainage (nl), afwatering (nl) Finnish: salaojaverkko French: drainage (fr) m Galician: denaxe German: Entwässerung (de) f, Drainage (de) f, Dränage f, Dränage f Hebrew: נִקּוּז‎ m (nikuz) Hungarian: lecsapolás Indonesian: drainase (id) Norwegian: Bokmål: drenering m or f Portuguese: drenagem (pt) f Romanian: drenaj (ro) n, drenare (ro) f Russian: дрена́ж (ru) m (drenáž) Spanish: drenaje (es) m Tagalog: sakati Turkish: drenaj (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• areading, gardenia

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɛ.naʒ/, /dʁe.naʒ/

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Noun

drainage m (plural drainages)

1. drainage

Further reading

• “drainage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• daignera, grenadai