drainage

See also: Drainage

English

Etymology

drain +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪnədʒ/

Noun

drainage (countable and uncountable, plural drainages)

1. A natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.
2. A system of drains.

Derived terms

• air drainage
• cholangiodrainage
• drainage basin
• drainage pipe
• drainageway
• nondrainage
• palaeodrainage
• positive drainage
• subdrainage
• updrainage

 

Translations

removal of water

• Catalan: drenatge m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排水 (zh) (páishuǐ)

• Czech: odvodnění n, drenáž (cs) f
• Danish: dræning c, afvanding c
• Dutch: drainage (nl), afwatering (nl)
• Finnish: salaojaverkko
• French: drainage (fr) m
• Galician: denaxe
• German: Drainage (de) f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drenering m or f

• Portuguese: drenagem (pt) f
• Romanian: drenaj (ro) n, drenare (ro) f
• Russian: дрена́ж (ru) m (drenáž)
• Spanish: drenaje (es) m
• Tagalog: sakati
• Turkish: drenaj (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• gardenia

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁɛ.naʒ/, /dʁe.naʒ/

Noun

drainage m (plural drainages)

1. drainage

Further reading

• “drainage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• daignera, grenadai