Drainage
noun
The process of removing water or liquid from a place.
The heavy rain caused a problem with the drainage system.
Often appears as...
- drainage system
- drainage problems
noun
The act of making someone or something less in amount, power, or effect, often over a period of time.
The hospital is trying to cope with the constant drainage of funds and resources.
Often appears as...
- financial drainage
- resources drainage
noun
In medicine, it refers to the removal of fluids from a body cavity, wound or other source of discharge by one or more methods.
The surgical team used a drainage tube post-surgery to remove excess fluid.
Often appears as...
- fluid drainage
- surgical drainage
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Technical
noun
The process of removing water or liquid from a place.
The heavy rain caused a problem with the drainage system.
Often appears as...
- drainage system
- drainage problems
noun
The act of making someone or something less in amount, power, or effect, often over a period of time.
The hospital is trying to cope with the constant drainage of funds and resources.
Often appears as...
- financial drainage
- resources drainage
noun
In medicine, it refers to the removal of fluids from a body cavity, wound or other source of discharge by one or more methods.
The surgical team used a drainage tube post-surgery to remove excess fluid.
Often appears as...
- fluid drainage
- surgical drainage
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Infrastructure Context
Drainage often relates to systems handling water flow in urban planning or construction.
Heavy construction equipment was needed to repair the stormwater drainage.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Impact
Discussions on drainage can involve environmental concerns with water management.
Proper drainage practices prevent soil erosion near the riverbanks.
Pro Tip 3/3Weather Conditions
Drainage may come up when talking about weather and its effects on areas.
The newly installed drainage will mitigate flooding during the monsoon season.
Pro Tip 1/3Infrastructure Context
Drainage often relates to systems handling water flow in urban planning or construction.
Heavy construction equipment was needed to repair the stormwater drainage.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Impact
Discussions on drainage can involve environmental concerns with water management.
Proper drainage practices prevent soil erosion near the riverbanks.
Pro Tip 3/3Weather Conditions
Drainage may come up when talking about weather and its effects on areas.
The newly installed drainage will mitigate flooding during the monsoon season.
Pro Tip 1/3Infrastructure Context
Drainage often relates to systems handling water flow in urban planning or construction.
Heavy construction equipment was needed to repair the stormwater drainage.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Impact
Discussions on drainage can involve environmental concerns with water management.
Proper drainage practices prevent soil erosion near the riverbanks.
Pro Tip 3/3Weather Conditions
Drainage may come up when talking about weather and its effects on areas.
The newly installed drainage will mitigate flooding during the monsoon season.
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What would happen if...
Moscow, and New York City, hundreds of drainage pumps are abandoned, flooding the tunnels in just three days. By the end of the first week, most emergency generators have shut down, and once the fires have gone out, the earth goes dark for the first time in centuries.
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Deep Under the Earth's...
Caves form in karstic regions. So karstic regions are areas of the world where the infiltrating water along cracks, fractures, can easily dissolve soluble lithologies, forming a drainage system of tunnels, conduits -- a three-dimensional network, actually.
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Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we...
and bad drainage and lack of electricity and rural poverty. We attacked the malarious way of life, and by doing that, we slowly built malaria out. Now attacking the malarious way of life, this is something -- these are things people care about today.
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For more wonder, rewild...
Rewilding, to me, means bringing back some of the missing plants and animals. It means taking down the fences, it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing commercial fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back.
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Here, Cutting Down...
people store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet so for that they are very important for the global climate regulation the peatland should not have trees on them the trees and the drainage ditches that have been
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Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...
got a base to decide you know what elephants it's art in the drainage line because they are being extremely protective assuming it is build a beast but did you see this female right up front making sure the babies are behind
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Wild Beavers Return...
ecosystem which is pretty important isn't it it is totally rescuing the landscape you know in victorian times pretty much across the country headwaters like this were straightened up put into into deep ditches drainage
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A Collection Of Summer...
create good drainage from snow and rain a dry nest is essential if these birds are to have any success in raising young penguins are fiercely protective of their pile of stones
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Reintegrating cities...
and constant floods a surface drainage system in fact could become a public park that was also giving pleasure to
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Safari Live - Day 280 PIPE...
so maybe somewhere deep in this drainage yeah
Video examples
What would happen if...
Moscow, and New York City, hundreds of drainage pumps are abandoned, flooding the tunnels in just three days. By the end of the first week, most emergency generators have shut down, and once the fires have gone out, the earth goes dark for the first time in centuries.
Video examples
Deep Under the Earth's...
Caves form in karstic regions. So karstic regions are areas of the world where the infiltrating water along cracks, fractures, can easily dissolve soluble lithologies, forming a drainage system of tunnels, conduits -- a three-dimensional network, actually.
Video examples
Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we...
and bad drainage and lack of electricity and rural poverty. We attacked the malarious way of life, and by doing that, we slowly built malaria out. Now attacking the malarious way of life, this is something -- these are things people care about today.
Video examples
For more wonder, rewild...
Rewilding, to me, means bringing back some of the missing plants and animals. It means taking down the fences, it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing commercial fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back.
Video examples
Here, Cutting Down...
people store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet so for that they are very important for the global climate regulation the peatland should not have trees on them the trees and the drainage ditches that have been
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...
got a base to decide you know what elephants it's art in the drainage line because they are being extremely protective assuming it is build a beast but did you see this female right up front making sure the babies are behind
Video examples
Wild Beavers Return...
ecosystem which is pretty important isn't it it is totally rescuing the landscape you know in victorian times pretty much across the country headwaters like this were straightened up put into into deep ditches drainage
Video examples
A Collection Of Summer...
create good drainage from snow and rain a dry nest is essential if these birds are to have any success in raising young penguins are fiercely protective of their pile of stones
Video examples
Reintegrating cities...
and constant floods a surface drainage system in fact could become a public park that was also giving pleasure to
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 280 PIPE...
so maybe somewhere deep in this drainage yeah
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Quote examples
D. B. Weiss
American Author
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
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Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development.
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John Burnside
Scottish Writer
Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.
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John Breaux
American Politician
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.
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Ron White
American Comedian
When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drainage purposes. There was not a lot trouble to get into in that ditch. It was ditch activities like catching crawdads and minnows.
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David Schweikert
American Politician
Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible - was put in during the freeway construction.
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Paula Jean Swearengin
American Politician
I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.
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Sam Donaldson
American Journalist
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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Seth Moulton
American Politician
Sulfide-ore mining is one of the most toxic industries in America and has a long history of polluting waterways with acid drainage that contains arsenic, mercury, and lead.
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Alan Brien
English Novelist
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
Quote examples
D. B. Weiss
American Author
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
Quote examples
Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development.
Quote examples
John Burnside
Scottish Writer
Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.
Quote examples
John Breaux
American Politician
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.
Quote examples
Ron White
American Comedian
When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drainage purposes. There was not a lot trouble to get into in that ditch. It was ditch activities like catching crawdads and minnows.
Quote examples
David Schweikert
American Politician
Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible - was put in during the freeway construction.
Quote examples
Paula Jean Swearengin
American Politician
I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.
Quote examples
Sam Donaldson
American Journalist
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
Quote examples
Seth Moulton
American Politician
Sulfide-ore mining is one of the most toxic industries in America and has a long history of polluting waterways with acid drainage that contains arsenic, mercury, and lead.
Quote examples
Alan Brien
English Novelist
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
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