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Definition: Aqueduct |
AqueductNoun1. A conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aqueduct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Etymology: Aqueduct \Aq"ue*duct\, noun. [French expression aqueduc, Old French aqueduct (Cotgr.), from the Latin expression aquaeductus; aquae, gen. of aqua water ductus leading, ducere to lead. See Aqua, Duke.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A conduit designed to convey water from a source to a point, usually a reservoir, where distribution begins. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | A pipe, conduit, or channel designed to transport water from a remote source, usually by gravity. (references) |
Public Administration | An open conduit of wood, masonry, or metal constructed on a grade and sometimes elevated. Sometimes called aqueduct. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An aqueduct is an artificial (man-made) channel that is constructed to convey water (properly called a canal) from one location to another. Many aqueducts are raised above the landscape, resembling bridges rather than rivers. Sufficiently large aqueducts may also be usable by ships. They are a kind of viaduct, carrying water instead of a road etc. While a road bridge often carries the road at a more elevated level than the rest of the road, such a variation of height is not possible for an aqueduct, of course.
Aqua Claudia, Rome
(Larger image)Historically, many agricultural societies have constructed aqueducts to irrigate crops. Archimedes invented the water screw to raise water for use in irrigation of croplands.
Another widespread use for aqueducts is to supply large cities with clean drinking water. Some of the famed Roman aqueducts still supply water to Rome today. In California, USA, a large aqueduct runs in the central valley that transports water from North California to the Los Angeles area.
In modern civil engineering projects, detailed study and analysis of open channel flow is commonly required to support flood control, irrigation systems, and large water suppy systems when an aqueduct rather than a pipeline is the preferred solution.
Navigable aqueducts include:
- aqueduct near Roelofarendsveen, Netherlands: carries the Ringvaart canal over the A4 highway and the HSL being constructed, which are situated on land below the level of the canal (and below sea level)
- Gouwe aqueduct, near Gouda, Netherlands: carries the Gouwe river over the A12 highway, which is on land below the level of the river.
Segovia, Spain
(Larger image)Roman aqueducts include:
See also irrigation, leat.
- The Pont du Gard in southern France
- Caesarea, Israel
- Segovia, Spain
- Mérida, Spain
- Tarragona, Spain
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aqueduct."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aqueduct |
| English words defined with "aqueduct": Aqueduct bridge ♦ huge ♦ immense, Iter ♦ Receiving reservoir ♦ third ventricle ♦ vast. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aqueduct": aqueduct-and-reservoir keeper ♦ dam tender ♦ needle-valve operator ♦ Periaqueductal Gray ♦ reservoir caretaker ♦ Subcommissural Organ, surge tank ♦ WATERSHED TENDER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "aqueduct": Viaduct. (references) |
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 | Croton Aqueduct, (Westchester Co., New York). Detail of [?] pipes] / John B. Jervis, chief engineer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Newspaper reporters listening through pipe for sounds of life at the scene of an aqueduct tunnel cave-in. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sketch for mural, "Aqueduct brings water to southern California"] / Rev. Brandt. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Irrigation 7. "Deadman Syphon" of the L.A. aqueduct, eleven foot steel pipe carrying water from Owens River to Los Angeles, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Washington, D.C. Closer view of Aqueduct Bridge, with Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in foreground. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Petersburg, Va., vicinity. Canal aqueduct. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Aqueduct over the Pompton, Morris and Essex Canal, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Queretaro, the old aqueduct. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The aqueduct at Queretaro, Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Aqueduct of Potomac, Georgetown, D.C. / drawn from nature by F. Dielman ; lith. by E. Sachse & Co., Baltimore. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pont Du Gard" by Alison Scott Commentary: "Pont Du Gard -- well preserved Roman aqueduct in Southern France." | "Roman ancient city" by Luis Alves Commentary: "Conimbriga is situated 16 km south of Coimbra - Portugal. It was a point on the Roman road that came from Sellium (Tomar) and made its way to Aeminium (Coimbra). This is an impressive Roman city with magnificent houses, gardens, beautiful fountains, dream" |
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Business | Other projects include the rehabilitation of sewers and the installation of a three-mile aqueduct. (references) | |
U.S. and Mexican authorities agreed to do a feasibility study to build a joint aqueduct to carry Colorado River water to the region. (references) | ||
The aqueduct will ensure not only short-term solution to the cities of Tijuana and Rosarito, but also long-term supply of water, allowing economic development to continue in both cities. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Dominican Republic | Although citizens of all political persuasions generally exercise unhindered freedom of speech, on occasion police took action to restrict it. For example, in July police flew a helicopter to Barahona to pick up an outspoken critic of a government aqueduct project. (references) |
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| "Aqueduct" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.12% of the time. "Aqueduct" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.12% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.66% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aqueduct": aqueduct bridge ♦ aqueduct of Sylvius ♦ aqueduct to divert water supplies ♦ Cerebral Aqueduct ♦ Cochlear Aqueduct ♦ sylvian aqueduct ♦ Vestibular Aqueduct. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "aqueduct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | akwadukt. (various references) | |
Albanian | kanal (canal, chamfer, channel, conduit, cut, ditch, drain, duct, excavation, flute, Fosse, gully, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, trench, tube, watercourse). (various references) | |
Arabic | قناة لجر الماء, قناة (canal, channel, chase, conduit, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, passage, path, pipe, rut, sluiceway, spile, trough, trunk, tube, water course, waterway). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тръба (channel, passage, pipe, spout, trumpet, tube), канал (canal, channel, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, mortise, passage, port, rabbet, race, scour, sewer, trench, vas, vessel), водопровод (aquation, conduit, piping, plumbery, plumbing, water main), акведукт. (various references) | |
Chinese | 渡槽. (various references) | |
Czech | akvadukt, vodovod (water supply, water-conduit). (various references) | |
Danish | omloebskanal (culvert). (various references) | |
Dutch | aquaduct. (various references) | |
Esperanto | akvedukto. (various references) | |
Farsi | کانال یامجرای اب , قنات . (various references) | |
Finnish | akvedukti, vesijohto (water main, water pipes), kourujohto. (various references) | |
French | aqueduc. (various references) | |
German | Aquädukt, Wasserleitung (faucet, plumbing, tap, water conduit, water pipe). (various references) | |
Greek | υδραγωγείο (aquaduct, viaduct, water reservoir). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוביל מים (conduit, duct), תעלה (canal, channel, conduit, culvert, ditch, gutter, sewer, water course), אמת מים (canal), אובל (stream, water course), אקודוקט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vízvezeték (conduit, ducting, water-conduit). (various references) | |
Icelandic | vatnsveitubrú, vatnsleiðsla. (various references) | |
Indonesian | akuaduk, jalan air (waterway). (various references) | |
Italian | acquedotto, condotto per l'acqua (culvert). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 水路 (channel, waterway). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいろ (channel, waterway). (various references) | |
Korean | 수도교. (various references) | |
Manx | feddan (barrel, channel, chanter, fife, flageolet, flute, pipe, sleeve, sleeving, tube, tubing, vessel, whistle), droghad ushtey, ammyr ushtey (culvert). (various references) | |
Papiamen | akuedukto. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aqueductay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aqueduto (drain). (various references) | |
Romanian | apeduct, conductã de apã. (various references) | |
Russian | труба (chimney, duct, funnel, pipe, pipes, piping, trumpet, tube), акведук. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | akvadukt. (various references) | |
Spanish | acueducto (water conduit, water pipe). (various references) | |
Swedish | akvedukt. (various references) | |
Turkish | sukemeri, kemerli köprü. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | труба (pipe, trumpet, tube), канал (artery, canal, channel, deferent, ditch, feeder, sluice, watercourse), водопровід (conduit, plumbing), акведук. (various references) | |
Welsh | dyfrffos (canal, watercourse). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aquaeductu, aquaeductum, aquaeductus, aquæductus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aqueduct": aqueducts. (additional references) | |
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"Aqueduct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acqueduct, aquaduct, aquaeduct, aquiduct, avunduk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "aqueduct" (pronounced 'Aq"ue*duct'): Abduct, Adduct, Caliduct, Caloriduct, Circumduct, Deduct, induct, Obduct, Oviduct, Pestiduct, Reconduct, Reduct, Underconduct, Ventiduct, Viaduct. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-q-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: acted, acute, cadet, ducat, educt, quate, tuque. | |
-4 letters: aced, cade, cate, cued, cute, dace, date, daut, duce, duct, duet, quad, tace. | |
-5 letters: ace, act, ate, cad, cat, cud, cue, cut, due, eat, eau, ecu, eta, qat, qua, tad, tae, tau, tea, ted, uta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-q-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: aqueducts. | |
+4 letters: unacquainted. | |
+5 letters: quadruplicate. | |
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