different between drain vs bleed

English

Alternative forms

• drein (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dreinen, from Old English dr?ahnian (“to drain, strain, filter”), from Proto-Germanic *drauhn?n? (“to strain, sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, parched”). Akin to Old English dr?gian (“to dry up”), Old English dr?gaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English dr??e (“dry”). More at dry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?n/, IPA^(key): /d??e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

drain (plural drains)

1. (chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
2. (chiefly Britain) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
3. Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.

4. (vulgar) An act of urination.
5. (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
6. (pinball) An outhole.
7. (Britain, slang, dated) A drink.
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes

     When the play was over, we came out together, and I said, "We've been very companionable and agreeable, and perhaps you wouldn't object to a drain?"

   • 1966, Henry Mayhew, ?Peter Quennell, London's Underworld (page 48)

     What did she want with money, except now and then for a drain of white satin.

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Verb

drain (third-person singular simple present drains, present participle draining, simple past and past participle drained)

1. (intransitive) To lose liquid.

   The clogged sink drained slowly.

   • Knock knock.
     Who's there?
     Dwayne.
     Dwayne who?
     Drain the bathtub, I'm drowning.
2. (intransitive) To flow gradually.

   The water of low ground drains off.

3. (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.

   Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.

4. (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

   They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.

5. (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.

   The stress of this job is really draining me.

6. (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
   • But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To filter.
8. (intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

Derived terms

• drainable
• drainage
• drain away
• draining (adjective)
• drain out
• drain the lizard (vulgar)
• drain the main vain

Descendants

• ? French: drainer (see there for further descendants)

Translations

Anagrams

• Darin, Drina, Indra, Nadir, Nardi, Ndari, Radin, dinar, nadir, ranid

Cimbrian

Numeral

drain

1. dative of drai

English

Etymology

From Middle English bleden, from Old English bl?dan (“to bleed”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?þijan? (“to bleed”), from *bl?þ? (“blood”). Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bli?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Verb

bleed (third-person singular simple present bleeds, present participle bleeding, simple past and past participle bled)

1. (intransitive, of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

2. (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
3. (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
4. (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).

5. (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

6. (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
7. (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.

8. (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.

   • And so Sir Trystrames bledde bothe the over-shete and the neyther-shete, and the pylowes and the hede-shete

9. (intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

10. To lose sap, gum, or juice.

11. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
12. (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

13. (publishing, advertising, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
    • 1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising (page 35)

      Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]

    • 2004, Dorothy A. Bowles, ?Diane L. Borden, Creative Editing (page 361)

      Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.

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Noun

bleed (plural bleeds)

1. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
2. (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.

3. (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
4. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
5. The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.

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References

• bleed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• bleed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Lebed, bedel, debel

Plautdietsch

Adjective

bleed

1. shy, coy
2. modest
3. withdrawn
4. timid, reticent, reluctant

Derived terms

• Bleedheit