DEWATERING

  

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DEWATERING

Specialty Definition: DEWATERING

DomainDefinition

Industry

Thickening on a wire. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

All procedures or plants and installations above or below ground for keeping water out of the mine workings, as well as for collecting, clarifying and carrying off incoming water. Source: European Union. (references)
 The collection and removal of ground and surface water from the area of opencast working, together with measures to prevent ingress of water into the area, with a view to ensuring the safety of the workings and improving the quality of the solid fuel produced. Source: European Union. (references)
 A. The removal of water from a drowned shaft or waterlogged workings by pumping or drainage as a safety measure or as a preliminary step to resumption of development in the area. CF:unwatering b. The draining of an aquifer when adjacent wells or mine workings are pumped. c. The mechanical separation of a mixture of coal and water into two parts, one which is relatively coal-free, the other relatively water-free, with respect to the original mixture d. The mechanical separation of solid matter from water in which it is dispersed, by such equipment as thickeners, classifiers, hydrocyclones, filters, and centrifuges. Coarser coal sizes may be dewatered by slotted screens or perforated bucket elevators. e. The process in which solid material, either submerged or containing liquid, is conveyed or elevated in a manner that allows the liquid todrain off while the solid material is in transit. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DEWATERING

Specialty definitions using "DEWATERING": basket centrifuge, belt press, Bird solid-bowl centrifuge, bulkhead gatecentrifuging, CMI centrifuge, coal sludgedeckle boards, DEWATERER OPERATOR, dewatering elevator, drainage foil, DRIER FEEDERkiln-head house operatorlaunder screenMcNally-Carpenter centrifuge, McNally-Norton jigprepared coal, PRESS OPERATOR, processed coal, propeller pumpstop logtreated coalwashing-machine operator, wedge-wire screen. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DEWATERING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Peat and Water: Aspects of Water Retention and Dewatering in Peat (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DEWATERING

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

For example, to resolve a problem of the landfill for sewage sludge, Vodokanal used a technology for dewatering and sludge incineration offered by a French company OTV. The total cost of the waste treatment plant construction (first two phases) was Rb 450 million, half of which was provided as an intergovernmental Russian-French credit. (references)

Economic History

Uk

The U.S. holds over 20 per cent of the import market for screening and filtration, sludge dewatering, phosphorus and heavy metal removal, and anaerobic digestion systems. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DEWATERING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dewatering

50

contractor dewatering

3

dewatering pump

13

agent dewatering sludge

3

dewatering sludge

13

basement dewatering system

3

dewatering filter

12

construction dewatering

3

dewatering equipment

11

dewatering portable remediation system

2

dewatering system

5

dewatering bag

2

dewatering press

4

basement dewatering

2

dewatering tank

4

dewatering box

2

dewatering ground

4

canadian dewatering

2

dewatering screen

4

centrifuge dewatering

2

dewatering griffin

3

dewatering dewind

2

dewatering material

3

dewatering heating sludge

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DEWATERING

Language Translations for "DEWATERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

water opvoer (drainage, drainage of mines, mine pumping), ontwatering (dehydration, drainage, draining, land drying), bemaling (drainage, drainage of mines, mine pumping). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vedenpoisto (dehydration, drainage). (various references)

   

French

  

drainage, exhaure, égouttage. (various references)

   

German

  

Wasserhebung (drainage, drainage of mines, mine pumping), Wasserhaltung (reach), Entwaesserung (drainage), Entwässern (dehydrate, drain, draining, to drain). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στράγγισμα (wring), αποστράγγιση (drainage, drainage of mines, draining, highway drainage, mine pumping, wicking). (various references)

   

Italian

  

drenaggio (drain, drainage), scolantezza (drainage), eduzione (drainage, drainage of mines, mine pumping). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ewateringday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

drenagem (drainage, straining), esgoto (sewer, sink, wastepipe), esgotamento (depletion, drain, emptyings, fatigue, impoverishment, rarefaction). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

drenaje (drainage), desgote (drainage), desagüe (drain, drainage, draining, gutter, outfall, outflow, outlet, plughole), espesamiento (thickening). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DEWATERING

Misspellings

"DEWATERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delayering. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DEWATERING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-n-r-t-w"

-1 letter: denigrate, gratineed.

-2 letters: antiweed, derating, detainer, gradient, gratinee, interage, redating, regained, retained, treading, twangier, watering, wintered.

-3 letters: angered, antired, arenite, darting, dawting, deraign, derange, detrain, dewater, dragnet, drawing, dreeing, energid, enraged, gradine, grained, grandee, granite, granted, grantee, gratine, greaten, grenade, ingrate, integer, negated, negater, ragweed, reading, reagent, redwing, reeding, reginae, reigned, retinae, rewiden.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-i-n-r-t-w"
 

+5 letters: weatherboarding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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