drainage

See also: Drainage

English

Etymology

drain +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪnəd͡ʒ/

Noun

drainage (countable and uncountable, plural drainages)

1. A natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away.
   • 2023 June 14, Philip Haigh, “Landslips: NR strives to turn back the tide”, in RAIL, number 985, page 35:

     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.

2. A system of drains.
3. A downward wind.
   • 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)., page 29:

     In the forward part of the cyclone, drainage katabasis is checked; but its highest intensity is observed in the rear part of the cyclone.

Derived terms

• air drainage
• cholangiodrainage
• drainage area
• drainage basin
• drainage divide
• drainage pipe
• drainage system
• drainageway
• nondrainage
• palaeodrainage
• positive drainage
• subdrainage
• updrainage

 

Translations

removal of fluid

• Arabic: تَصْرِيف m (taṣrīf)
• Bulgarian: дренаж (bg) m (drenaž)
• Catalan: drenatge m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排水 (zh) (páishuǐ)

• Czech: odvodnění n, drenáž (cs) f
• Danish: dræning c, afvanding c
• Dutch: drainage (nl), afwatering (nl)
• Finnish: salaojaverkko
• French: drainage (fr) m
• Galician: denaxe
• German: Entwässerung (de) f, Drainage (de) f, Dränage (de) f
• Hebrew: נִקּוּז m (nikuz)
• Hungarian: lecsapolás (hu)
• Indonesian: drainase (id)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drenering m or f

• Portuguese: drenagem (pt) f
• Romanian: drenaj (ro) n, drenare (ro) f
• Russian: дрена́ж (ru) m (drenáž)
• Spanish: drenaje (es) m
• Tagalog: sakati
• Turkish: drenaj (tr)
• Vietnamese: hệ thống thoát nước

Anagrams

• areading, gardenia

French

Etymology

From English drainage. By surface analysis, drainer +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɛ.naʒ/, /dʁe.naʒ/

• Audio:

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Noun

drainage m (plural drainages)

1. drainage

Descendants

• → German: Dränage
• → Swedish: dränage

Further reading

• “drainage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• daignera, grenadai