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drain
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One side of a field effect transistor. When the gate is pulsed, current flows from the source to the drain, or vice versa depending on the design. See collector.

(jargon)drain - (IBM) To allow a system to complete the processing of its current work before the system becomes unavailable. E.g. draining a device before taking it off-line or telling a web server in a server farm not to accept any new requests but to finish processing any requests it has already accepted.
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Known as "the universal drainer," Common Birch is an excellent general remedy for strengthening the immune system.
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However, because well-drained crop soil can be twice as productive as wet soil, farmers have traditionally been among the most aggressive drainers of wetlands.
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Then they hit other important aspects of life, including career (identify the energy drainers that make you less efficient), finances (look for pain-free ways to save money each month), relationships (pull out the date book instead of saying, ``Let's get together sometime''), home (conduct a comfort audit of each room) and health (bring a shopping list to the grocery store and limit impulse buying).
PULSE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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