Associations to the word «Drainage»

Wiktionary

DRAINAGE, noun. A natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.
DRAINAGE, noun. A system of drains.
DRAINAGE BASIN, noun. (hydrology) A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.
DRAINAGE BASINS, noun. Plural of drainage basin
DRAINAGE PIPE, noun. Conduit for the removal of water or waste water.

Dictionary definition

DRAINAGE, noun. Emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne