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drain
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)
- (chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- (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.
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- (vulgar) An act of urination.
- (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (pinball) An outhole.
- (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.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
drain (third-person singular simple present drains, present participle draining, simple past and past participle drained)
- (intransitive) To lose liquid.
- The clogged sink drained slowly.
- Knock knock.
Who's there?
Dwayne.
Dwayne who?
Drain the bathtub, I'm drowning.
- (intransitive) To flow gradually.
- The water of low ground drains off.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.
- Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.
- (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.
- (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
- The stress of this job is really draining me.
- (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.
- (transitive, obsolete) To filter.
- (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
- dative of drai
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kickback
English
Alternative forms
- kick-back, kick back
Etymology
kick +? back.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?kbæk/
Noun
kickback (countable and uncountable, plural kickbacks)
- (countable) A backward kick, a retrograde movement of an extremity.
- (countable, informal) A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction.
- (uncountable, firearms, machinery) Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
- (countable, machinery) An accident wherein an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
- (oil industry) A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
- (countable, bowling) The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
- (uncountable, bridge) In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
- (pinball) A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
- A relaxed party.
- Synonym: kicker
Translations
See also
- bribe
- fee splitting
- kick back (verb)
Further reading
- kickback on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- what is kickback on a chainsaw
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