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# drainage

«drainage» in Mova's school dictionary: **the way water or other liquid flows away from a place…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (drainage; usually no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Drainage is the way water or other liquid flows away from a place, through pipes, ditches or the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#m1)

2) The system of pipes and ditches that carries away rainwater or waste water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#m2)

3) (medicine) Letting fluid out of a wound or body part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in geography (river drainage basins), gardening (good drainage for plants), building and town safety (flooding when drainage is poor). Phrases: «poor drainage», «drainage ditch», «drainage system», «drainage basin».

### examples

- The field flooded because of poor drainage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#x1)
- Cacti need soil with good drainage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#x2)
- A drainage ditch runs along the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#x3)
- The town fixed its drainage system after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#x4)
- Put stones at the bottom of the pot for drainage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#x5)
- The Amazon has the largest drainage basin in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «good drainage», not «a drainage». From the verb drain (drain, drained). A «drainage basin» is all the land whose water flows into one river.

### In the corpora

- [A drainage basin is all the land whose water drains into one river.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drainage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.