FLUME Synonyms
There are 8 hypernyms of the word flume. (close relations)
Definition of FLUME
Best Alternative Words for FLUME
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| channel | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a path over which electrical signals can pass • a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through • a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) • a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels • (often plural) a means of communication or access • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • a television station and its programs • a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors verb • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission • direct the flow of • send from one person or place to another | ||||||||
| chute | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall • sloping channel through which things can descend verb • jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | ||||||||
| conduit | nounn | |||||||
noun • a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | ||||||||
| race | verb, noun, adjectivev, n, adj | |||||||
noun • any competition • a contest of speed • people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock • (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species • the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller • a canal for a current of water verb • move hurridly • compete in a race • to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others • cause to move fast or to rush or race | ||||||||
| sluice | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate verb • pour as if from a sluice • irrigate with water from a sluice • transport in or send down a sluice • draw through a sluice | ||||||||
| watercourse | nounn | |||||||
noun • natural or artificial channel through which water flows • a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth • a conduit through which water flows | ||||||||
| gulch | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a narrow gorge with a stream running through it | ||||||||
