What's the difference between drain and flow?

Drain


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
  • (v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
  • (v. t.) To filter.
  • (v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
  • (v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
  • (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
  • (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
  • (n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
  • (2) Intraperitoneal drain should therefore be used when choledochus has been explored.
  • (3) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
  • (4) Ovarian venous concentrations of these four steroids from the side draining the tumor-bearing ovary were increased in 40 to 80% of the women.
  • (5) Radioactive lactic acid was detected in the drained perfusion solution with D(U-14C)-glucose, but not when D(U-14C)-fructose was used.
  • (6) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
  • (7) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
  • (8) In tests on 13 cells pacing at a 200 mua drain without recharging, the simulated mean duration of pacing before total discharge was 4.8 years.
  • (9) An abscess of a lingual tonsil should be drained under general anesthesia, and lingual thyroid should be treated conservatively unless it produces obstructive symptoms.
  • (10) Among them 8 cases were coelio-drained for 24 hours with very little thin bloody drainage.
  • (11) Lymphocytes obtained from lymph nodes draining foot pads infected with R. conorii or R. akari demonstrated cross-reactivity similar to that found with immune spleen cells.
  • (12) The experiments show that the single cephalad channel venous island flap is perfused by and drains through its single cephalad vein.
  • (13) But it has a tainted reputation: the 2007 foot and mouth outbreak was traced to a leak from Pirbright’s drains.
  • (14) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
  • (15) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
  • (16) In 13 growing pigs (mini-pigs) all veins draining the head of femur were ligated intra-abdominally.
  • (17) However, we demonstrate that topical exposure to DNTB causes activation of the draining lymph node in mice and the induction of contact sensitization in both rodents and a single human volunteer.
  • (18) The malformations over the surface drain into the superior sagittal sinus.
  • (19) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
  • (20) The region was perfused at constant flow through the aorta and drained at constant pressure from the inferior vena cava.

Flow


Definition:

  • () imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
  • (v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
  • (v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
  • (v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
  • (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
  • (v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
  • (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
  • (v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • (v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
  • (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  • (v. t.) To cover with varnish.
  • (n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
  • (n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
  • (n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
  • (n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
  • (n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
  • (2) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (3) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
  • (4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
  • (5) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
  • (6) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (7) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
  • (8) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
  • (9) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
  • (10) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
  • (11) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
  • (12) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
  • (13) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (14) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
  • (15) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
  • (16) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (17) YM infused at 0.01 pmol.kg-1.min-1 did not cause any changes in urinary flow rate or Na excretion.
  • (18) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
  • (19) The effect of these drugs was estimated from the cell growth curve and DNA histogram determined by flow cytometry.
  • (20) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.