flume

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
2. An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids, especially to carry materials (logs, mined material, etc) or people (as a water slide), especially (but not always) one where the walls are raised above the surrounding terrain rather than recessed like a ditch.

Verb

To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.

sinonimi

sluice

gulch

raceway

dale

groove

millrace

penstock

runway

slideway

spout

trough

wind tunnel

flow table

wet slide

wind tunnel plant

air tunnel

cavetto

whirl tube

channel

coulisse

Traduzioni

Klamm

Kanal

Bewässerungskanal

Gerinne

Fluder

αγωγός νερού

λαγκάδι

μυλαύλακο

canal

trou

🕳️

bled

patelin

flume

caz

المجرى

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/fluːm/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: flum

In summary

From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”).