Synonym: drain. Similar words: brain drain, drain, drained, acid rain, down the drain, badinage, financial management, against the grain. Meaning: ['dreɪnɪdʒ] n. emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it.
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31. There is rarely a drainage problem with paths, as there sometimes is with patios.
32. Their use in malignant strictures provides immediate drainage, avoiding the early complications encountered with plastic stents.
33. About 80 percent of the drainage goes to a treatment plant and about 20 percent flows to these waterways.
34. In addition they must pay heavy rates for the major drainage schemes.
35. They donned black armbands mourning the cattails and circulated petitions to have the offending drainage pipe removed.
36. As a result, his engineering team was able to substantially reduce the channeled drainage on the plan.
37. The security of both was the promise of a large proportion of the land after the drainage operation had been successfully completed.
38. In fact, the technocrats of land drainage are heirs to one of the oldest forms of organized local government.
39. Bear right to cross the drainage ditch by the stone bridge.
40. A dry-stone wall method is used to ensure free drainage.
41. Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land.
42. The nature of the underground drainage can give rise to international problems when streams cross under frontiers.
43. A urinary catheter had been inserted and was draining into a sealed drainage system.
44. There were no drainage ditches here, the shoulders too abrupt, the slope too precipitous, to collect water.
45. The topography and drainage patterns suggest certain routes by which invaders have penetrated from all directions into the Balkan heartland.
46. However, this plan of management is advisable only if biliary drainage has been established.
47. The first essential of healthy soil life is air,(sentencedict.com) and this means good subsoil drainage and adequate inter-crumb pores.
48. The people of the Middle Ages inherited sea-walls and drainage channels which had survived from the Roman occupation.
49. On the north-east corner is the cellar, complete with winter bee boles and a drainage channel out to the moat.
50. Marketed as blocks of pure coir or as loose compost mixed with additives to improve drainage.
51. Gas and drainage pipes had broken as a result of the settlement and there was a risk of further breaks.
52. He excluded patients with cystic fibrosis by performing duodenal drainage tests for the measurements of pancreatic enzyme concentrations in the duodenal juice.
53. Also, surgical morbidity related to biliary drainage remains high in these alcoholic and often debilitated patients.
54. Its soils and drainage make it a quite distinct area, described on pages 46 and 47.
55. The newly crowned King decided something had finally to be done about the drainage problems of Teske.
56. During the reign of Elizabeth, the Wealdmoors in Shropshire were a battleground between rival landlords intent on drainage and enclosure.
57. Wet gravel pits are generally recognised as important habitats for wildlife, particularly in view of the increasing drainage of wetlands.
58. Puzzling over this, I nearly miss a water rail which scuttles off down a drainage ditch towards the loch of Westsandwick.
59. Subsequent work included canal and river navigation, land drainage, and harbour projects, as well as a brief venture into canal contracting.
60. A drainage ditch around them would probably do more good than anything else.
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