Drain vs Consume - What's the difference?
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A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.
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Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
(label) An act of urination.
(label) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
To lose liquid.
To flow gradually.
(ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.
(ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
To deplete of energy or resources.
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
* Francis Bacon
* Motley
(obsolete) To filter.
* Francis Bacon
(pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
* 1990 , Steven A. Schwartz, Compute's Nintendo Secrets
To use.
To eat.
To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
To destroy completely.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew vi. 20
(obsolete) To waste away slowly.
* Shakespeare
* 1899 , Kate Chopin, The Awakening :
In transitive terms the difference between drain and consume
is that drain is to draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust while consume is to destroy completely.As verbs the difference between drain and consume
is that drain is to lose liquid while consume is to use.As a noun drain
is a conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.drain
English
Noun
(en noun)Not Just Going with the Flow, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain , as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
Derived terms
* circle the drain * down the drain * drain flyVerb
(en verb)- The clogged sink drained slowly.
- The water of low ground drains off.
- Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.
- They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
- The stress of this job is really draining me.
- Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.
- But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
- Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.
- When a ball finally drains , it's gulped down by a giant gator beneath the set of flippers.
Derived terms
* drainage * drain the lizard (vulgar)Anagrams
*consume
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Verb
(consum)- The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
- Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
- Desire consumed him.
- The building was consumed by fire.
- If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.
- Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume .
- Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.
- He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.
