draining
排水する
解説 Definition
draining は drain（排水する、水を抜く）の現在分詞・動名詞です。水や液体を外へ流して取り除く動作を表し、土地や容器、管などについて使われます。
Draining is the -ing form of drain and means causing water or another liquid to flow out of a container, place, or area. It can describe an action in progress or the activity of removing liquid.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
drain「液体を抜く」に -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、語末の e はないためそのまま draining /ˈdreɪnɪŋ/ とする。draining water from a pool のように drain A from B「BからAを排出する」で覚え、水が去って容器や土地が乾く流れを思い描く。
Build draining from the base verb drain plus -ing: drain becomes draining, pronounced /ˈdreɪnɪŋ/. No letter is doubled or dropped. Picture water leaving a pool through an outlet until the pool is empty; the central idea is liquid flowing away from where it has collected. Learn the useful pattern drain water from a pool, tank, sink, or flooded basement. Draining focuses on removing liquid through flow, whereas drying focuses on the later result of losing moisture. The image of water going out and the place becoming usable again makes the meaning easy to retain.
例文
They are draining water from the pool.
彼らはプールの水を抜いています。
Draining the sink took only a few minutes.
流しの水を抜くのに数分しかかかりませんでした。
The workers started draining the flooded basement.
作業員たちは浸水した地下室の排水を始めました。
draining の類義語・関連語
draining の語源・成り立ち Etymology
draining は動詞 drain に現在分詞・動名詞の -ing が付いた形です。drain は中英語 dreinen、さらに古英語 dreahnian「少しずつ液体を抜く」にさかのぼり、dry・drought と同根なので「水を抜いて乾かす」と考えると腑に落ちます。関連語は dry, drought。
Draining is formed from drain and the suffix -ing, which marks a present participle or gerund. Drain entered English from Middle English dreinen and is connected with an Old English verb referring to straining or drawing liquid away. Its history belongs to a Germanic group of words associated with dryness and the removal of moisture, including dry. The modern verb describes making liquid flow out through a channel, pipe, opening, or similar route; draining names or describes that process.
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