Found 3 hits - Term: aqueduct, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
aqueduct \aq"ueduct\, n. f. aqueduc, of. aqueduct cotgr.,
fr. l. aquaeductus; aquae, gen. of aqua water + ductus a
leading, ducere to lead. see aqua, duke.
1. a conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying
water, especially one for supplying large cities with
water.
1913 webster
note: the term is also applied to a structure similar to the
ancient aqueducts, for conveying a canal over a river
or hollow; more properly called an aqueduct bridge.
1913 webster
2. anat. a canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of sylvius, a
channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the
brain.
1913 webster
see also:
aqua duke
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
aqueduct
n : a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a
valley
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
55 moby thesaurus words for "aqueduct":
arroyo, bed, canal, canalization, channel, conduit, course,
creek bed, crimp, culvert, cut, dike, ditch, donga, dry bed, duct,
entrenchment, flume, fosse, goffer, gulch, gully, gullyhole,
gutter, ha-ha, headrace, irrigation ditch, kennel, moat, nullah,
pleat, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, sluice, spillbox,
spillway, stream bed, streamway, sunk fence, swash, swash channel,
tailrace, trench, trough, wadi, water carrier, water channel,
water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway,
waterworks
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