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# drainage

noun (drainage; usually no plural)

«drainage» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Drainage is the way water or other liquid flows away from a place, through pipes, ditches or the soil. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#m2)
3. (medicine) Letting fluid out of a wound or body part. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «drainage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drainage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«drainage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/drainage.html) on Mova free.