dropwall
scupper
gutter
headwall
head gate
floodgate
wasteweir
dam
tail gate
weir
Tainter gate
saddle
flume
sluice
cofferdam
floodboard
raceway
race
waterchamber
lock chamber
pinchcock
lock
grip
antiflow
floodwall
bay
inlayer
launder
weephole
dyke
cornice
paddle
dike
counterdrain
well drain
fount
minicanal
fountain
penstock
pneumatic caisson
caisson
drainpipe
fuse plug
draught excluder
sluiceway
drain system
by-wash
drainage system
turncock
storm drain
drainage well
storm sewer
outfall
downwell
bund
waterwall
stormwater drain
flooder
aerodynamic
flow
batardeau
close
flowing
aqueduct
larmier
streamlined
caulking
sleek
caulk
closed
stank
scroll
draw
levee
catchwater
channel
sarangousty
pumphouse
millrace
beartrap gate
stanch
cove
millrun
flood
weatherboard
floodhead
flash lock
water gate
lockshield
watercourse
blasthole
barrier
grindlet
trone
antiflow
aerodynamic
flowing
streamlined
sleek
closed
dropwall
scupper
gutter
headwall
head gate
floodgate
wasteweir
dam
tail gate
weir
Tainter gate
saddle
flume
sluice
cofferdam
floodboard
raceway
race
waterchamber
lock chamber
pinchcock
lock
grip
floodwall
bay
inlayer
launder
weephole
dyke
cornice
paddle
dike
counterdrain
well drain
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minicanal
fountain
penstock
pneumatic caisson
caisson
drainpipe
fuse plug
draught excluder
sluiceway
drain system
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drainage system
turncock
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downwell
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floodhead
flash lock
water gate
lockshield
watercourse
blasthole
barrier
grindlet
trone
dam
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flood
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noun
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- A space between printed columns of text.
- An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A drainage channel.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
- A low, vulgar state.
- The spaces between comic book panels.
- One who or that which guts.
verb
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- To supply with a gutter or gutters.
noun
- A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
- An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
- A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.
- A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
- A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
- The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
- A reservoir.
- Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
- A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.
verb
adj
intj
noun
- A small sloped or tapered structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
- The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”)
- Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”)
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”)
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”)
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- The raised floorboard in a doorway.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”)
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
verb
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
- Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
noun
- A water gate or floodgate.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
verb
noun
- a canal for a current of water
- any competition
- a contest of speed
- people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock
- (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
noun
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
verb
- fasten with a lock
- keep engaged
- become rigid or immoveable
- hold in a locking position
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
noun
- A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
- A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
- A lot of something.
- A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
- A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
- Control, power or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- A long time.
- As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
- A handle or other place to grip.
- A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
- Assistance; help or encouragement.
- A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
verb
noun
- A bank or dam to keep back water.
- An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
- A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
- The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
- Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
- A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
- An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
- A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
- Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
- Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
- A bay platform.
- A bay window.
- The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
- A horse of this color.
- The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
- A tract covered with bay trees.
verb
- To howl.
- To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
- To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
adj
noun
- A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.
- A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
- A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.
- An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.
verb
noun
- In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
- The use of a paddle to propel a boat; a session of paddling.
- A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.
- A blade of a waterwheel.
- A flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.
- A broad, flat spanking implement.
- A double-bladed version with blades at each end of the shaft is used for kayaking.
- A handheld electrode used for defibrillation or cardioversion.
- A person's hand.
- A paddlewheel.
- A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
- A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
- A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- A flat board with a number of holes or indentations, used to carry small alcoholic drinks such as shots.
- A single-bladed version is typically used on canoes and some other small boats.
- A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
verb
- To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
- To toddle.
- To spank with a paddle.
- To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
- To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- To tread upon; to trample.
- To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- To dog paddle in water.
noun
noun
- A conduit for carrying rainwater or flood water.
- A pipe that carries wastewater from a bathtub, shower, sink, etc.
- A pipe that is part of a device or appliance for carrying away waste fluid.
- The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe.
- A type of form-fitting trousers with highly tapered legs.
- A verticle pipe carrying water from the roof gutter down the side of a building; downspout.
noun
- A collapsible dam or levee designed to give way in extreme flood conditions in order to divert water away from more important water-control structures.
- A component of an aircraft wheel held in place by a metal alloy with a low melting point, such that, if the wheel is severely overheated (for instance, by heavy braking), pressure is released from the wheel and tire/tyre in a controlled manner rather than risking an explosion of the wheel assembly.
noun
- A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
- A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
- A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
- A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
- An embankment.
verb
noun
- A channel or device for carrying and controlling water used in flood irrigation.
- A device for controlling or maintaining the flow of liquid.
- A person employed to handle issues arising from flooding.
- Something that tends to flood.
- A person who floods message boards, chat rooms etc. with unwanted or repetitive comments.
verb
- cover or swamp with water
- move or progress freely as if in a stream
- move along, of liquids
- cause to flow
- be abundantly present
- fall or flow in a certain way
- undergo menstruation
noun
- the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
- the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
- the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
- any uninterrupted stream or discharge
- something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
verb
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
adj
- To be in a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- Lacking a free variable.
- Formed by closing the mouth and nose passages completely, like the consonants /t/, /d/, and /p/.
- Having component words joined together without spaces or hyphens; for example, timeslot as opposed to time slot or time-slot.
- Not public.
- Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open.
- Not operating or conducting trade.
- Having an open complement.
- To be in a position allowing electricity to flow.
- Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
- Whose first and last vertices are the same, forming a closed loop.
- Having the sound cut off sharply by a following consonant, like the /ɪ/ in pin.
verb
- To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
- To surround or guard.
- To stumble or lurch.
- To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
- To trample.
- To pack in tightly.
- To stink; to smell bad.
- To cause to smell bad.
- simple past tense of stink
- To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
adj
noun
noun
- A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.
- The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
- A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
- An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
- A turbinate bone.
- A skew surface.
- A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
- The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head.
- A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.
- Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
verb
- To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.
- To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
- To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel to move in gradual increments.
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- a path over which electrical signals can pass
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- a television station and its programs
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
verb
noun
verb
- To stop the flow of (blood); to stop (a wound) from bleeding.
- To check or stop, or deter, (an action).
- To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
- To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.
- To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); often followed by of: to relieve (someone's) pain.
- Of bleeding: to stop.
verb
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
- To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
noun
- An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- A floodlight.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
noun
- A structure that bars passage.
- A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The lists in a tournament.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
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