Drain vs Sap - What's the difference?

drain | sap |

As nouns the difference between drain and sap

is that drain is a conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume while sap is wax.

As a verb drain

is to lose liquid.

drain

English

Noun

(en noun)

A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.

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An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.

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).

Derived terms

* circle the drain * down the drain * drain fly

Verb

(en verb)

To lose liquid.

The clogged sink drained slowly.

To flow gradually.

The water of low ground drains off.

(ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.

Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.

(ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.

To deplete of energy or resources.

The stress of this job is really draining me.

To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.

* Francis Bacon

Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.

* Motley

But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.

(obsolete) To filter.

* Francis Bacon

Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.

(pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

* 1990 , Steven A. Schwartz, Compute's Nintendo Secrets

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)

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sap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

Noun

(wikipedia sap)

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

(uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.

(slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.

Derived terms

(terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tube

Etymology 2

Probably from sapling.

Noun

(en noun)

(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

(rfimage)

Verb

(sapp)

(slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Etymology 3

From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .

Noun

(en noun)

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Derived terms

* sap fagot * sap roller * sapper

Verb

(sapp)

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

* (rfdate)

Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.

(military) To pierce with saps.

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

* 1850 ,

Ring out the grief that saps the mind

To gradually weaken.

* to sap one’s conscience

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12

* (rfdate)

Both assaults carried on by sapping .

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