Definitions for "Drain"
Keywords:  colander, strainer, sink, putt, pipe
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
Contact region of a MOSFET to which the electrons in the channel flow
The element in field-effect transistor which is roughly analagous to the collector of a bipolar transistor.
one of the three leads of a field-effect transistor.
Keywords:  suction, wick, wound, fluid, tube
A tube used to move fluid or air from the body.
Also called the main drain, this plumbing fitting is the start of one suction line to the pump and is usually situated at or near the center bottom of the pool. To view this item click here.
tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
Keywords:  brewers, mashing, tub, grain
The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
deplete of resources; "The exercise class drains me of energy"
Acquire a locked resource by quiescing other access to it.
Keywords:  foxes, underground, run
Underground, where foxes often run to.
Keywords:  gully, dry, stream, small
Small dry stream or gully.
Keywords:  felled, mortality, forest, volume, sum
Volume of wood removed from the forest in a given time; total drain is the sum of wood felled and natural mortality
Keywords:  camp, weak, him, life
make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"
For Network Load Balancing, a command that disables new traffic handling for the rule whose port range contains the specified port. All ports specified by the port rule are affected. See also: cluster; drainstop; port; port rule
Keywords:  filter
To filter.
Keywords:  drawn, load, total, current
Total current drawn by a load.
In the context of the Video Library, a target or consumer of video signals.
Keywords:  withdrawal, current, cell
Withdrawal of current from a cell.