Word Meanings - EXHAUSTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exhaustion; drain.

Related words: (words related to EXHAUSTMENT)

• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• DRAINTRAP
  See 5
• DRAINPIPE
  A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
• DRAINTILE
  A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.
• DRAINAGE
  The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. 4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham. (more info) 1. A draining; a gradual
• DRAINABLE
  Capable of being drained.
• DRAIN
  1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
• DRAINING
  The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. Draining tile. Same as Draintile.
• DRAINER
  One who, or that which, drains.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• TOP-DRAINING
  The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
• TOP-DRAIN
  To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
• WELLDRAIN
  To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.
• CATCHDRAIN
  A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
• UNDERDRAIN
  An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
• TILE-DRAIN
  To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.
• WATER DRAINAGE
  The draining off of water.
• AUTOGENETIC DRAINAGE
  A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.