drainage

«drainage» in Mova's school dictionary: the way water or other liquid flows away from a place… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (drainage; usually no plural)

meaning for a pupil

1) Drainage is the way water or other liquid flows away from a place, through pipes, ditches or the soil. tree →

2) The system of pipes and ditches that carries away rainwater or waste water. tree →

3) (medicine) Letting fluid out of a wound or body part. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in geography (river drainage basins), gardening (good drainage for plants), building and town safety (flooding when drainage is poor). Phrases: «poor drainage», «drainage ditch», «drainage system», «drainage basin».

examples

• The field flooded because of poor drainage. tree →
• Cacti need soil with good drainage. tree →
• A drainage ditch runs along the farm. tree →
• The town fixed its drainage system after the storm. tree →
• Put stones at the bottom of the pot for drainage. tree →
• The Amazon has the largest drainage basin in the world. tree →

note

Uncountable: «good drainage», not «a drainage». From the verb drain (drain, drained). A «drainage basin» is all the land whose water flows into one river.

In the corpora

• A drainage basin is all the land whose water drains into one river.

Trees and pragmatics

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