drain

«drain» in Mova's school dictionary: to let water or another liquid flow out of something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (drain, drains, drained, draining); noun (a drain, drains)

meaning for a pupil

1) To drain is to let water or another liquid flow out of something. tree →

2) A drain is a pipe or hole that takes dirty water or rainwater away. tree →

3) To drain something is to use it up slowly: «the game drained my phone battery». tree →

4) To feel drained is to feel very tired. tree →

5) «Down the drain» means wasted. tree →

sense in the lessons

water flowing out: litres per minute taken from a tank; in everyday life: drain the pasta, pull the plug and the bath drains; in science and the town: storm drains carry rainwater away; in safety: never play near storm drains, the water can be fast and deep; phrases: «down the drain», «brain drain»

examples

• The tank drains 5 litres a minute. tree →
• How long to drain 60 litres? tree →
• The bath drains in 10 minutes. tree →
• One pipe fills while the other drains. tree →
• Drain the pasta in a colander. tree →
• Leaves blocked the drain and the street flooded. tree →
• Never play near storm drains after rain. tree →
• The long run left me completely drained. tree →
• All that money went down the drain. tree →
• Suddenly there appeared a great water-rat, who lived in the drain. tree →

note

Takes away at a rate. Trap: fill and drain together: the change each minute is fill − drain. Time to drain = amount ÷ litres per minute (60 ÷ 5 = 12 minutes). Noun countable: a drain, drains.

In the corpora

• Burnout is exhaustion from too much stress for too long, usually from work; the person feels drained and cannot concentrate.
• Brown rats live wherever people live; they eat our waste and shelter in drains, sewers and buildings.
• A pelican's pouch scoops up about 10 litres of water, like a bucket, which it drains before swallowing the fish.
• Draining pasta is a separation: the holes of the colander are big enough for water but too small for the pasta.
• Water stuck in the ear is drained by tilting the head to that side, because water left there can cause swimmer's ear.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «drain» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.