drainage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drainage	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for drainage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drainage n emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it Synonym(s): drain, drainage
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drainage \Drain"age\, n. 1. A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain. 2. The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers. 3. (Engin.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. 4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. --Latham. 5. (Surg.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc. {Drainage tube} (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.