Watercourse Synonyms

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Synonyms for Watercourse

canal
The definition of a canal is a river or man-made channel of water used for transportation.
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wadi
A valley, ravine, or watercourse that is dry except during the rainy season
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brook
(Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
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stream
A current or flow of water or other liquid, esp. one running along the surface of the earth; specif., a small river
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creek
A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river.
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chute
A waterfall
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tributary
The definition of a tributary is a steam that flows into a larger body of water.
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waterway
A channel at the edge of a ship's deck to drain away water.
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aqueduct
A bridgelike structure supporting a conduit or canal passing over a river or low ground.
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conduit
Any channel, or means, whereby something is passed on
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culvert
The definition of culvert is a tunnel or a drain under a road or a railway that carries a stream or drainage from one side to the other.
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drain
The definition of a drain is a pipe or channel that lets something run off.
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estuary
An arm of the sea that extends inland to meet the mouth of a river.
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gully
A road drain.
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ravine
A long, deep hollow in the earth's surface, esp. one worn by the action of a stream; large gully or small gorge
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sluice
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
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spillway
A path designed to take away overflow safely.
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trench
A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor. Trenches form when one tectonic plate slides beneath another plate at a subduction zone. The Marianas Trench, located in the western Pacific east of the Philippines, is the deepest known trench (10,924 m or 35,831 ft) and the deepest area in the ocean.
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gullet
Any depression or channel like a gullet, as a water gully
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gutter
A channel at the edge of a street or road for carrying off surface water.
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inlet
A narrow strip of water between islands
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flume
An open artificial channel or chute carrying a stream of water, as for furnishing power or conveying logs.
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water-channel
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river
Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
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channel
(Broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
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water-course
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surface-water
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water-courses
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sewer
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culverting
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outfall
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ground-water
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  • The former category comprises the maintenance of provincial roads, bridges and watercourse embankments;, secondary education, whenever this is n.ot provided for by private, institutions or by the state (elementary education being maintained by the communes), and the maintenance of foundlings and pauper lunatics.

  • A little south is the mouth of the Darror, a usually dry watercourse with a length of over 200 m., which rises, as the Gebi, in the north-east of the British protectorate.

  • Hanifa is its principal watercourse; its course is marked by an almost continuous series of palm groves and settlements, among which Deraiya the former, and Riad the present, capital of the Ibn Saud kingdom are the most extensive.

  • The bones of the animals consumed as food at this station were found in such numbers that 5 tons were collected in the construction of a watercourse which crossed the site.

  • The basement of the mill contains a watercourse which is perfect for modern micro hydropower technology capable of generating green electricity.

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