race
streambed
watercourse
flooder
ingressive
outfall
gullet
fret
runnel
aqueduct
alveus
pass
gutter
waterway
culvert
feeder
flume
canalise
conduit
raceway
streamflow
foreflow
off-flow
feed into
food canal
channelize
washway
breakaway
head
fountainhead
headspring
distributary
sluice gate
grip
irrigate
water
trough
mill race
spillway
derivation
goit
wasteweir
spill
thalweg
strait
water tap
creek bed
sluiceway
headrace
canalicule
millpond
empty
narrow
plumb
kill
lake
narrow sea
headstream
canaliform
intake
encatchment
saddle
lay-by
well drain
slough
drove
vessel
tideway
water carrier
catchment area
intercanal
run through
canalisation
guide
duct
oxbow lake
beartrap gate
sluice
fount
up
puddling
sleeve
canal
Grand Canal
Inver-
basin
canal basin
offtake
waterspout
offlet
drainage system
ingressive
canaliform
intercanal
race
streambed
watercourse
flooder
outfall
gullet
fret
aqueduct
alveus
pass
gutter
waterway
feeder
flume
conduit
raceway
streamflow
foreflow
off-flow
food canal
washway
breakaway
head
fountainhead
headspring
distributary
sluice gate
grip
trough
mill race
spillway
derivation
goit
wasteweir
spill
thalweg
strait
water tap
creek bed
sluiceway
headrace
canalicule
millpond
narrow
kill
lake
narrow sea
headstream
intake
encatchment
saddle
lay-by
well drain
slough
drove
vessel
tideway
water carrier
catchment area
canalisation
guide
duct
oxbow lake
beartrap gate
sluice
fount
puddling
sleeve
canal
basin
canal basin
offtake
waterspout
offlet
drainage system
runnel
culvert
canalise
feed into
channelize
irrigate
water
empty
plumb
run through
noun
- A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
- Subspecies.
- A race condition.
- A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
- A progressive movement toward a goal.
- Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
- A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
- A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
- An infraspecific rank, a pathotype, pathovar, etc.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
- A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
- A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare species, subspecies).
- The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
- A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare ethnic group). See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.
- A group or category distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
- Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
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.
adj
- Being a source or channel through which water enters or once entered an area.
- Going or directed inward, entering.
- Aspectually indicating that an action is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
- Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
- Open to entry or examination.
noun
noun
- A channel for water.
- A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
- The throat or esophagus.
- The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
- The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
- The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
noun
- A channel or passage created by the sea.
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
verb
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To press down the string behind a fret.
- To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
noun
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- A drainage channel.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- 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.
- 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 tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- A feeder ship.
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
- A branch line of a railway.
- That which is used to feed.
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
noun
- A channel of floodwater that has burst from its usual course; or the track or channel eroded by the water.
- A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.
- An item of scenery designed to be broken or destroyed during the performance.
- A stampede of animals.
- A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
- An animal that breaks away from a herd.
- An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.
- A particular yo-yo trick http://yoyo.wikia.com/wiki/Breakaway.
- A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
- The act of breaking away from something.
- The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
adj
noun
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- a person who is in charge
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- a difficult juncture
- forward movement
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the subject matter at issue
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- the striking part of a tool
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
verb
noun
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- 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 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
verb
- supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
- provide with water
- secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
- fill with tears
noun
- binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
- the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour phlegm
- a facility that provides a source of water
- liquid excretory product
- a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants
noun
- A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle
verb
noun
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
noun
- a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction
- liquid that is spilled
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- a sudden drop from an upright position
verb
- cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- flow, run or fall out and become lost
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- reveal information
- reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
verb
- Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
- To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
adj
- Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
noun
noun
adj
- Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Having a small margin or degree.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
verb
- To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- To get narrower.
verb
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
- To work as a plumber.
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To fall or sink like a plummet.
- To position vertically above or below.
noun
- A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
- A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
- The perpendicular direction or position.
adv
adj
noun
- A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The act of killing.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
verb
- To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- To punish severely.
- To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- To produce intense pain.
- To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To force a company out of business.
- To deadmelt.
- To render inoperative.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- To use up or to waste.
- To cause to assume the value zero.
- To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
noun
- A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
- In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
- A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
- In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
verb
noun
- The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- A tract of land enclosed.
- The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
- The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- The quantity taken in.
- An act or instance of taking in.
- Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
verb
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 widened section of a narrow river or canal, formed to one side so as to leave the channel free, for mooring of vessels, where vessels can lay over or allow others to pass.
- A paved area at the side of a highway designated for drivers to stop in, for emergency parking, or where vehicles can wait, with larger lay-bys possibly having facilities like food vendors or public telephones.
- A railroad siding; a second, short railroad track just to the side of a railroad track, connected with the main track by a switch and used for unloading, bypassing, etc.
- A method of retail purchase in which the selected goods are set aside and the customer pays for them in instalments, receiving them when fully paid; layaway.
noun
- A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- A muddy or marshy area.
- A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- A state of depression.
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
verb
noun
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.
- A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
- A group of hares.
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
verb
noun
- A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
- Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
verb
noun
- A pipe or tube that conveys water.
- An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house.
- A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
- A transportation ship that is water-based.
- An individual doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
- Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
- A domestique.
adj
verb
- Of a waterway, to flow through an area.
- To repeat something.
- To summarise briefly.
- To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.
- To go through hastily.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.
- To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.
- To fuck.
- To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry
- To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
noun
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
verb
noun
- a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another
- a vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile
- a tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air
- a layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path
- an enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors
verb
noun
- 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.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
verb
prep
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- From south to north of.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- Further along (in any direction).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Toward the top of.
verb
- To upload.
- To physically raise or lift.
- To increase the level or amount of.
- To promote.
- To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- In a positive vertical direction.
- North.
- Against the wind or current.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- Without additional ice.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
adj
- Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Traveling towards a major terminus.
- At university (especially Oxford or Cambridge).
- Aloft.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Functional; working.
- Raised; lifted.
- Above the horizon, in the sky.
- well-known; renowned
- Awake and out of bed.
- Willing; ready.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Finished, to an end
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Facing upwards.
- Well-informed; current.
- In a good mood.
- Built, constructed.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- Standing; upright.
- Next in a sequence.
noun
noun
- The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight.
- The action of forming a puddle.
- The first true industrial process to produce steel from pig iron.
- A group of mallards (ducks).
- A behaviour in which animals like butterflies seek out moist substances to obtain nutrients.
- The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids.
noun
- A narrow channel of water.
- The part of a garment that covers the arm.
- A serving of beer smaller than a pint, typically measuring between 12 and 16 ounces.
- A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint.
- A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers.
- A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD.
- A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
- Sleave; untwisted thread.
- A tattoo covering the whole arm.
verb
prefix
English words for 'A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.'
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