aqueduct
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aqueduct \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.
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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.
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2. (Anat.) A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a
channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the
brain.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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