drain — meaning in English

English meaning

• culvert noun A pipe or covered channel that carries a stream, ditch or drainage water underneath a road, railway or embankment.
• drain noun A pipe or channel that carries away unwanted liquid.
• issue noun A subject or problem that people discuss or disagree about.

Senses

drain is used for these senses in English:

• culvert A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
• drain (chiefly, US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
• drain (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• issue (historical, _, medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.

culvert — full definition

1. noun A pipe or covered channel that carries a stream, ditch or drainage water underneath a road, railway or embankment.
2. verb To enclose a watercourse in such a channel, usually so that something can be built over it.

drain — full definition

1. noun A pipe or channel that carries away unwanted liquid.
2. verb To cause liquid to flow away, or for liquid to flow away, from something.
3. verb To gradually use up someone's energy, money, or resources.
4. noun Something that steadily consumes resources without giving anything back.

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