different between drain vs gote

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.

Derived terms

Translations

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

Alternative forms

• gout

Etymology

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gut? (“gutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”).

Cognate with Dutch goot (“a gutter, drain, gully”), German Gosse (“a gutter”). Related to Old English gutt (“gut, entrails”), Old English ??otan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.

Noun

gote (plural gotes)

1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
2. (Britain dialectal) A drainage pipe.
3. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A deep miry place.

Related terms

• gotch
• ingot

Anagrams

• EGOT, toge

Dutch

Verb

gote

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of gieten

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gote f (plural gutis)

1. drop

Italian

Noun

gote f

1. plural of gota

Adjective

gote

1. feminine plural of goto

Middle English

Noun

gote

1. Alternative form of goot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?o?t?/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: gåte

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gata f, from Proto-Germanic *gatw? (“street, passage”). Doublet of gate. Akin to Faroese gøta.

Alternative forms

• gutu
• gota (non-standard since 2012)
• gòtu (Midlandsnormalen)

Noun

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

2. a path, trail
4. a passage with a fence or gate on either side

   Synonyms: geil, allé

Etymology 2

A kind of blend of gote f (“path”) and gatt n (“hole”), and gjot. The verb is derived from the noun.

Alternative forms

• (verb): gota (a- and split infinitives)

Noun

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

1. a hole

Verb

gote (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative got)

1. (transitive) to make a hole (in)

Etymology 3

From the noun got n (“spawn”).

Alternative forms

• gota (a- and split infinitives)

Verb

gote (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative got)

1. (transitive, zoology) to spawn

   Synonym: gyte

Etymology 4

From Old Norse goti, from Proto-Germanic *gutô.

Noun

gote m (definite singular goten, indefinite plural gotar, definite plural gotane)

1. form removed by a 2016 spelling decision; superseded by gotar

References

• “gote” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• toge

Old French

Alternative forms

• goute
• goutte (chiefly late Old French)
• gute

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u.t?/

Noun

gote f (oblique plural gotes, nominative singular gote, nominative plural gotes)

1. drop (of liquid)

Related terms

• gotiere

Descendants

• English: gout, goutte
• Middle French: goutte
  • French: goutte
• Norman: goute