Culvert

Definition: Culvert

Culvert

Noun

1. A transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway.

Date "culvert" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	A closed structure for the free passage of surface drainage water under a highway, railroad, canal or other structure. Source: European Union. (references)
Transportation	A drainage structure beneath an embankment. Culverts, as distinguished from bridges, are usually covered with embankment and are composed of structural material around the entire perimeter. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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: Culvert

Specialty definitions using "culvert": catch basin, catchpit ♦ drop shaft ♦ grit trap, guide post ♦ inlet sump ♦ mud trap ♦ occupation crossing ♦ sidewalls, sump pit ♦ wingwall. (references)

Etymologies containing "culvert": Colander. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	A girlin a culvert pipeat a highway construction sitein the middle of an alfalfa field (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami)
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Domain	Title
Books	Bridge, Culvert, and Tunnel Research (Transportation Research Record, No. 1371) (reference) Concrete Pipe and Box Culvert Manufacturing in Australia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Culvert corrosion, porous lane marking, membranes, polymer concrete, and reflectometer evaluations (reference) Culvert Distress & Failure Case Histories & Trenchless Technology (Trr 1431) (reference) Culverts: Analysis of Soil Culvert Interaction and Design (Transportation Research Record 1008) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Squeezing through a railroad culvert White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		The tide gate from the riverside of Army Creek. The tide gate is a water control structure, the culvert is about 15 feet in diameter the flood control mechanisms have approximately 30" openings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	The new pipes that were used to replace the old culvert that inhibited coho and chum salmon from migrating to their spawning grounds. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		A malfunctioning culvert at the Quivett Creek marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	View of the concrete lower culvert that passes underneath Sea View Street. This lower pipe was installed at an invert below the adjacent creek bottoms and has partly filled in with sediment and debris. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		Culvert converted to bridge to restore salmon passage on Fish Hawk Creek, Oregon. Tiered resting pools on the creek. Credit: Gary Wilson.
	Norm Vigil, Northwest Field Team Leader and David Manzanares, RC&D Coordinator inspecting a trash rack to prevent debris from the Los Alamos fire from clogging roadway culvert. New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.		Trash rack to prevent debris from the Los Alamos fire from clogging roadway culvert. New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.
	Culvert placements through a Jobs in the Woods contract. Credit: D. Huntington.		Cole Creek culvert replacement for fish passage. Credit: J. Brende.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	I seen a culvert, little ways back.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Culvert" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Culvert" is used about 50 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)	100%	50	48,117

Expression using "culvert": discharge culvert. 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 "culvert"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nënkalesë ujërash, kanal nën rrugë. (various references)

Arabic		‏قناة للأسلاك الكهربائية, ‏قناة تحت الأرض للمياه, ‏بربخ. (various references)

Bulgarian		улей за подземен кабел, водосток (gully, outfall), дренажна тръба. (various references)

Chinese		阴沟. (various references)

Czech		propustek. (various references)

Danish		stenkiste, omloebskanal (aqueduct), gennemloeb (opening, passage, sluice), gennemføring (bushing, bushing insulator, insulating bushing). (various references)

Dutch		riool (sewer), duiker (diver), doorlaat (clearance, daylight), bruggetje. (various references)

Farsi		مجرای اب زیرجاده , نهرسرپوشیده , لوله مخصوص کابل برق زیرزمینی , اب گذر. (various references)

Finnish		rumpu (drum). (various references)

French		caniveau, voûtage, ponceau, passage couvert, aqueduc. (various references)

German		unterirdische Wasserleitung. (various references)

Greek		υπόγειοσ οχετόσ, υδραγωγείο (aquaduct, aqueduct, viaduct, water reservoir), οχετός (conduit, drain, gutter, sewer). (various references)

Hebrew		מפלש (opening, tunnel), מעבר מים (viaduct), תעל�" (aqueduct, canal, channel, conduit, ditch, gutter, sewer, water course), �'שרון (ferry). (various references)

Hungarian		csőáteresz, vízátvezető csatorna, vízátvezető cső, szennyvízelvezetõ, kábelcsatorna, áteresz (relief). (various references)

Indonesian		urung-urung, bubusan. (various references)

Italian		condotto per l'acqua (aqueduct), canale sotterraneo, tombinone (closed conduit), tombino (gutter, manhole), sottopasso (closed conduit), ponticello (jumper), fogna (drain, sewer), apertura (aperture, gap, gape, hole, inlet, leak, mouth, opening, openness, orifice, slot, span, spread, vent), acquedotto a botte. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		暗� (drain), 暗きょ (drain). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あ�"きょ (drain, easy life). (various references)

Korean		�"거. (various references)

Manx		ammyr ushtey (aqueduct). (various references)

Pig Latin		ulvertcay

Portuguese		pontão (jetty, pontoon), galeria (balcony, corridor, gallery), bueiro (downtake pipe, gully, manhole). (various references)

Romanian		canal de scurgere (drain, horn-gate, leader, sewer, spout, watercourse). (various references)

Russian		кульверт. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odvodni kanal (drain-ditch, sewer). (various references)

Spanish		alcantarilla (drain, sewer). (various references)

Swedish		kulvert. (various references)

Turkish		suyolu (canal, channel, conduit, ditch, eaves, flume, gully, gully drain, gutter, offtake, thoroughfare, trench, watercourse), kanal (canal, chamfer, channel, chute, conduit, dike, drain, duct, flume, gullet, gully, meatus, pass, passage, station, vessel), elektrik kablo borusu. (various references)

Ukrainian		кульверт, підземний стік, дренажна труба (carriage, drain pipe, drainage-tube). (various references)

Vietnamese		cống nước ống dây điện ngầm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "culvert": culverts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Culvert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calvaert, calvert, Colvern, colvert, Culterty, culvent, culvet. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "culvert" (pronounced ku"lvert)
3	-v er t	convert, covert, pervert.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-l-r-t-u-v"
	-1 letter: culver, curvet, cutler, reluct.
	-2 letters: cruel, cruet, culet, curet, curve, cuter, eruct, lucre, recut, truce, ulcer, vertu.
	-3 letters: celt, clue, cult, cure, curl, curt, cute, ecru, luce, lure, lute, rule, true, tule, vert.
	-4 letters: cel, cue, cur, cut, ecu, let, leu, lev, luv, rec, ret, rev, rue, rut, tel, vet.
	-5 letters: el, er, et, re.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-l-r-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: culverts.
	+2 letters: lucrative, revictual, victualer.
	+3 letters: aviculture, curatively, revictuals, ulcerative, ventriculi, victualers, victualler, volumetric.
	+4 letters: avicultures, circulative, countervail, diverticula, involucrate, lubricative, lucratively, recultivate, reductively, revictualed, vasculature, ventricular, ventriculus, vermiculate, vermiculite, victuallers, viniculture, viticulture.
	+5 letters: articulative, corruptively, countervails, diverticular, diverticulum, multiservice, productively, recultivated, recultivates, revictualing, revictualled, silviculture, sylviculture, unreflective, vasculatures, vermiculated, vermiculites, vesicularity, vinicultures, viticultures.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
culvert	77	culvert deer	3
culvert pipe	48	corrugated culvert steel	3
culvert plastic	10	culvert driveway	3
culvert design	9	culvert gate	3
steel culvert	8	box concrete culvert	2
culvert pipe plastic	6	box culvert design	2
box culvert	6	box culvert precast	2
concrete culvert	5	concrete culvert pipe	2
culvert manufacturer	4	culvert price	2
culvert installation	4	culvert pvc	2
culvert metal	3	culvert steel pipe	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Culvert

Definition: Culvert

Culvert

Noun

Specialty Definition: Culvert

Synonyms within Context: Culvert

Conduit

Crosswords: Culvert

Modern Usage: Culvert

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Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

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Modern Translation: Culvert

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Rhyming with "Culvert"

Anagrams: Culvert

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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Culvert