Drain vs Waste - What's the difference?
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A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume.
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, title= 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).
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
A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
A large tract of uncultivated land.
A vast expanse of water.
A disused mine or part of one.
The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
Gradual loss or decay.
A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
(rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"
Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Excrement
(legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
Uncultivated, uninhabited.
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Barren; desert.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 255:
*:For centuries the shrine at Mecca had been of merely local importance, far outshone by the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, whose cult Christians had in good measure renewed by their pilgrimage in honour of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, while leaving the actual site of the Jerusalem Temple dishonoured and waste .
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
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Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
Unfortunate; disappointing. (rfex)
To devastate or destroy.
* Spenser
* Dryden
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
* Bible, Numbers xiv. 33
* Robertson
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
* Gray
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Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
* Bible, 1 Kings xvii. 14
(legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
As verbs the difference between drain and waste
is that drain is to lose liquid while waste is .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
*waste
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- That was a waste of time
- Her life seemed a waste
- The cage was littered with animal waste
Derived terms
* ameliorative waste * cotton waste * industrial waste * lay waste * nuclear waste * permissive waste * radioactive waste * rock waste * silk waste * toxic waste * trade waste * voluntary waste * wasteful * wasteless * waste of space * waste of time * waste pipe * wastyEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
Usage notes
Same meanings as wasted.Derived terms
* affirmative waste * ameliorative waste * go to waste * lay waste * lie waste * nonwasted * nonwasting * permissive waste * run to waste * unwasted * voluntary waste * waste pipe * wasteland * wasteness * wastrifeEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(wast)- Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted , / Art made a mirror to behold my plight.
- The Tiber / Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
- until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness
- Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- E. Kay (1822-1897), afterwards Lord Justice of Appeal, had rooms on the same staircase as myself, and we wasted a great deal of time together, both in term and in my second summer vacation.'' 1909. Francis Galton, ''Memories of my life , p. 69.
- The barrel of meal shall not waste .
