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aqueduct 音標拼音: ['ækwəd ,ʌkt] n. 水道,水渠,脈管 水道,水渠,脈管 aqueduct n 1: a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valleyAqueduct \ 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 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] 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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