Drainage is an English word with synonyms like drain or emptying. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Drainage meaning
- A natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away.
- A system of drains.
- A downward wind.
Synonyms of Drainage
Using Drainage
- The main meaning on this page is: A natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away. | A system of drains. | A downward wind.
- Useful related words include: drain, emptying, voidance, evacuation.
- In the example corpus, drainage often appears in combinations such as: drainage and, the drainage, drainage system.
Context around Drainage
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Drainage
- In this selection, "drainage" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lymphatic, storm, current, system, channels and field stand out and add context to how "drainage" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 10 major drainage channels following and a channel drainage system it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "drainage" sits close to words such as bang, endangered and nearest, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with drainage
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Development of an overland drainage study and plan - including movement of drainage reserves to rivers and creeks. (17 words)
Eastgrove south field will be raised and receive drainage drainage and other improvements using a state government grant. (18 words)
Drainage matters will go before the board as Drainage Clerk Ann Hinders will review pending and current drainage projects. (19 words)
The notice also added that the civic body has decided to go for the renovation of the 10 major drainage channels following a detailed survey to ensure better drainage and no water-logging for which the drainage channels would play a pivotal role. (43 words)
Runoff generated from additional snowmelt and the predicted rain has the high potential to cause flooding throughout the entire region including all low-lying areas and at drainage catch basins, standpipes and other surface water drainage inlets. (37 words)
According to the monitoring by Seattle Public Utilities, they report a 99 percent reduction of storm water leaving the drainage project Drainage has undergone a large-scale environmental review in the recent past in the United Kingdom. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Lymphatic drainage massage sometimes called manual lymphatic drainage, is used to encourage the drainage of the lymph nodes gently, from the outside.
Drainage matters will go before the board as Drainage Clerk Ann Hinders will review pending and current drainage projects.
The notice also added that the civic body has decided to go for the renovation of the 10 major drainage channels following a detailed survey to ensure better drainage and no water-logging for which the drainage channels would play a pivotal role.
Cluster 2 shows an efficient drainage system, where the speed of the ice can decrease in the middle of the melting season, when there is the most meltwater, as the drainage system suddenly becomes effective.
Development of an overland drainage study and plan - including movement of drainage reserves to rivers and creeks.
Drainage is also crucial, so ensure that the pot has proper drainage holes to prevent the soil from becoming waterlogged.
Eastgrove south field will be raised and receive drainage drainage and other improvements using a state government grant.
He added: “We’ve offered to accept a condition that a plan showing the location of the drainage field which must be 200m away from any existing drainage field, must be submitted to the council.
In seven phases, crews will create an underground storm drainage system along 12th Street from 16th Avenue to U.S. 85 and going north to the storm drainage facility at the Poudre River.
It claims Environment Southland failed to take action to prevent wetland drainage, or investigate and enforce where it knew drainage had occurred.
In Iowa’s agricultural landscape, extensive subsurface tile drainage systems often bypass traditional riparian buffers, routing water and pollutants underground directly to streams and drainage ditches.
Runoff generated from additional snowmelt and the predicted rain has the high potential to cause flooding throughout the entire region including all low-lying areas and at drainage catch basins, standpipes and other surface water drainage inlets.
The project will address drainage problems and reduce flood potential by providing a new storm sewer and inlets to facilitate local drainage.
The word “drainage” meant pretty much nothing to me before I moved here, and now drainage is my life.
According to the monitoring by Seattle Public Utilities, they report a 99 percent reduction of storm water leaving the drainage project Drainage has undergone a large-scale environmental review in the recent past in the United Kingdom.
Another weak point was the existence of many fields with open drainage ditches needing regular maintenance; in the mid-1980s, experts estimated that half of the cropland needed improved drainage works.
As a channel drainage system it is designed to eliminate the need for further pipework systems to be installed in parallel to the drainage, reducing the environmental impact of production as well as improving water collection.
For example, the imposition of drainage-schemes in The Fens negatively affected the livelihood of thousands of people after the King awarded a number of drainage-contracts.
For salinity control in such a case, annually an amount of drainage water is to be discharged from the aquifer by means of a subsurface drainage system and disposed of through a safe outlet.
Inland drainage involving upland basins in the north and northeast accounts for 40 percent of the country's total drainage area.
Common combinations with drainage
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- drainage and 25×
- the drainage 20×
- drainage system 19×
- drainage systems 18×
- and drainage 15×
- advanced drainage 11×
- of drainage 9×
- drainage ditches 8×
- lymphatic drainage 7×
- drainage is 7×