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water channel of an aqueduct

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  • water supplies —    In the Stone Age, when people first began settling on the alluvial plains of Mesopotamia, perhaps their single most immediate concern was finding reliable sources of freshwater for drinking and watering their crops and animals. At first, the… …   Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary

  • aqueduct — /ak wi dukt /, n. 1. Civ. Eng. a. a conduit or artificial channel for conducting water from a distance, usually by means of gravity. b. a bridgelike structure that carries a water conduit or canal across a valley or over a river. 2. Anat. a canal …   Universalium

  • Aqueduct (disambiguation) — An aqueduct is *an artificial (man made) channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. *a bridge that holds a water channel either for irrigation or transport *a channel in the body that carries a natural body fluid,… …   Wikipedia

  • aqueduct — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • water carrier — Synonyms and related words: Aquarius, Cloudcuckooland, Ganymede, Hebe, alto cumulus, alto stratus, anvil cloud, aqueduct, arroyo, banner cloud, bearer, bed, bheesty, billowy cloud, busboy, caddie, canal, cap cloud, cargo handler, carrier, carrier …   Moby Thesaurus

  • water gate — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, air lock, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, canal, creek bed, culvert, dock gate, donga, dry bed, flood hatch, floodgate, flume, gate, gulch, gully, gullyhole, head gate, headrace, irrigation ditch, lock, lock gate,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • channel — 1 passage, *strait, narrows, sound 2 Channel, canal, conduit, duct, aqueduct all mean something through which a fluid (as water) is led or flows. Channel implies the natural bed of a stream of running or moving waters; the term is also applied to …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Aqueduct — Aq ue*duct, 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • channel — [n1] pathway, usually containing water approach, aqueduct, arroyo, artery, avenue, canal, canyon, carrier, chamber, chase, conduit, course, dig, ditch, duct, fluting, furrow, gouge, groove, gully, gutter, main, means, medium, pass, passage, pipe …   New thesaurus

  • aqueduct — [n] canal channel, conduit, course, duct, pipeline, water passage, waterworks; concept 514 …   New thesaurus

  • aqueduct — ► NOUN ▪ a long channel or elevated bridge like structure, used for channelling water over a distance. ORIGIN from Latin aquae ductus conduit …   English terms dictionary

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