(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.
Guzzle
Definition:
(v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
(v. t.) To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
(n.) An insatiable thing or person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost half of those tested so far have received an energy efficiency rating of E, F or G, the lowest possible and the equivalent of a gas guzzling car.
(2) The near-freebie prices amount to an especially generous giveaway to Venezuelans fond of large SUVs and gas-guzzling jalopies from the 1970s and 80s.
(3) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
(4) There are legitimate reasons around the world for this – one is to stop the guzzling of a scarce resource.
(5) Peruse the aisles of manga, play PlayStation and online games, charge your mobile, sleep, and guzzle as much free fizzy melon soda as you like.
(6) Convincing viewers that Don and his colleagues aren't actually guzzling back booze might be the hardest sell of all.
(7) But in the face of the first oil shock – and in an age where shared wartime sacrifices for the common good were recalled more vividly than today – by banning gas-guzzling speeds, Washington put the security of supply to the collective ahead of individuals' desire to push the pedal to the metal.
(8) We’d also need to build exercise into daily living, and curtail out of town supermarkets which can only be reached by gas-guzzling obesity-inducing car culture.
(9) In Guzzle Hole cave, the sharp-eared will catch the sound of an underground river.
(10) A new generation of technologies designed to reduce our carbon footprints, energy monitoring takes our electricity usage into the light via wireless handheld displays, web pages and electronic flowers that wilt as we guzzle power.
(11) The firms warned in a statement that calm winter days with no wind could result in "large-scale supply disruptions", particularly in Germany's affluent and industry-heavy south, which guzzles much of the country's electricity.
(12) The military accounts for nearly 80% of the US government's energy consumption and the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have made strategists acutely conscious of both the massive cost and serious security risks of the gas-guzzling ways of the past.
(13) John Alker, public affairs manager of the UK Green Building Council, said: "Many of our public sector offices, schools and hospitals are the building equivalent of gas-guzzling cars.
(14) Stop the car’s battery recharging, perhaps, to save energy; test at unrealistically high temperatures and on super-slick test-tracks; switch off all the energy-guzzling accessories like heated seats, and air-conditioning, navigation and media systems; test cars at altitude.
(15) As a fast-food option, which is how people treat them in countries such as Thailand , insects are greatly preferable to the water-guzzling, rainforest-destroying, methane-spewing beefburger.
(16) Waiting at the hotel, we watched a minister guzzling champagne at the bar before being told we must meet the prime minister, Ignacio Milam Tang, first.
(17) As the Guardian has reported, new measures were pitched to put an electric car charging point in every new home , to redesign some energy-guzzling products and to remove new wind and solar power plants from the EU’s priority dispatch system .
(18) A child guzzles thirstily from a jerrycan lid before darting back into the crowd.
(19) Additional cuts also come from changes in their behaviour; shopping locally, holidaying in the UK and travelling by train, only putting the washing machine on when the wind is blowing and Postlethwaite forsaking his beloved gas-guzzling Saab convertible in favour of the their more fuel efficient VW Touran.
(20) Growth is not the answer to inequality Read more In this narrative, the biggest change you might have to make is to buy British lamb chops, not ones from New Zealand, exchange your gas-guzzling car for a Prius and, above all, remember to do your recycling.