drainage
/ˈdɹeɪnəd͡ʒ/
drainage noun: a natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away.
Noun
drainage (countable and uncountable, plural drainages)
- A natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away.
- It should move NR away from previous examples of repairs that have treated the symptoms (fixing the landslip) but not fixed the underlying cause (poor drainage), with the result that a second slip followed.2023 June 14, Philip Haigh, “Landslips: NR strives to turn back the tide”, in RAIL, number 985, page 35
- A system of drains.
- A downward wind.
- In the forward part of the cyclone, drainage katabasis is checked; but its highest intensity is observed in the rear part of the cyclone.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)....
drainage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
drainage in Hindi
- drainage
- जलनिकासी jalnikāsī
drainage in Tamil
- சாக்கடை, வடிகால், வடிகால் அமைப்பு, வடிகால் வசதி, வடிமானம், வடி
drainage in Urdu
- بدرو, نکاس, پن بہاؤ
drainage in Bengali
- নিষ্কাশন, জলনিকাশ, জলনির্গমন, নিকাশ
More languagesFewer languages
- drainage in Malayalam
- കാന kāna
- drainage in Kannada
- ಚರಂಡಿ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ, ಕಾಲುವೆ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ, ನಾಲೆ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ
- drainage in Tagalog
- sakati
- drainage in Arabic
- تَصْرِيف taṣrīf
- drainage in Indonesian
- drainase
- drainage in Vietnamese
- hệ thống thoát nước
Examples of drainage in a sentence
- The system of rivers in a drainage basin has a dendritic configuration.
- This is the second regrading of this lot, because the drainage plan has been revised yet again.
- The old drainage pipe would oppilate whenever leaves and silt collected inside it.
Forms of drainage
| plural | drainages |
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Origin of drainage
From drain + -age.
Words formed from drainage
- air drainage
- amniodrainage
- cholangiodrainage
- downdrainage
- drainage area
- drainage basin
- drainage divide
- drainage pipe
- drainage system
- drainageway
- endodrainage
- interdrainage
- nondrainage
- overdrainage
- palaeodrainage
- paleodrainage
- positive drainage
- predrainage
- redrainage
- subdrainage
- superdrainage
- underdrainage
- updrainage
Phrases with drainage
Questions about drainage
- What does drainage mean?
- Drainage means a natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away.
- What is drainage in Hindi?
- Drainage in Hindi is जलनिकासी (jalnikāsī). See Drainage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is drainage?
- Drainage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce drainage?
- Drainage is pronounced /ˈdɹeɪnəd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of drainage?
- The plural of drainage is drainages.
Words near drainage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: drainage (page history and authors); जलनिकासी (Hindi) (page history and authors); drainage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); drainage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); drainage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കാന (Malayalam) (page history and authors); drainage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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