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aqueduct |
a channel or pipe built to carry water over a long distance. [1/2 definitions] |
billabong |
in Australia, a pool formed by a backwater channel of a stream. |
canal |
a channel of water made by humans for boat transportation or for bringing water to crops. [1/2 definitions] |
canaliculus |
a small bodily channel or tubular passage, such as a tear duct, or a tiny groove, as in a bone. |
canalize |
to provide an outlet for or channel into a specific direction. [1/3 definitions] |
channel |
to make a channel in. [1/4 definitions] |
chute1 |
a sloped trough or channel down which things may slide in order to transport them. [1/4 definitions] |
conduit |
a channel, ditch, or pipe used to convey water or other liquid. [1/2 definitions] |
creek bed |
a channel occupied, or formerly occupied, by a stream. |
cross talk |
interference, as on a telephone, radio, or other electronic receiver, by other sound or radio signals from another channel. [1/2 definitions] |
culvert |
a man-made channel for drainage or the like that passes under a street or other thoroughfare. |
debouch |
of a river or the like, to flow from a narrow valley into a larger channel or open plain. [1/4 definitions] |
dike |
a ditch, or bank of earth dug from a ditch, as to channel irrigation. [1/6 definitions] |
downlink |
a channel for receiving transmissions from a spacecraft, or a transmission made on such a channel. |
drawstring |
a cord or the like that is drawn through a sewn channel in fabric and pulled so as to tighten or close an opening, as of pants, a bag, or the like. |
duct |
a channel made to enclose electrical cables or wires. [1/2 definitions] |
ferry |
a boat or ship used to carry people, vehicles, and other things across a bay, river, lake, or channel. [2/6 definitions] |
flume |
an artificial channel or chute through which water flows, sometimes used for the transportation of logs or, in an amusement park, for boat rides. [1/3 definitions] |
forum |
a meeting place or media channel for open discussion of issues. [1/4 definitions] |
groove |
in a phonograph record, the channel for the stylus. [1/7 definitions] |
Guernsey |
an island of the United Kingdom in the English Channel near the northwest tip of France; Isle of Guernsey. [1/2 definitions] |
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