RUN-OFF

Environment

Geography

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Crosswords: RUN-OFF

Books

• Modelling urban run-off, a quasilinear approach (reference)

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David Roblido (left), NRCS discusses the operation of a drop inlet. The inlet leads to an underground drainage pipe capturing run-off from terraced flowers. [Slide 97CS2986]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Water run-off control with the use of a gutter system at the Fenk Dairy, Tillamook,Oregon. Credit: Gary Wilson.

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A machine tool assembly line where fixed bed milling machines are put together, thoroughly checked and run-off. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Slag run-off from one of the open hearth furnaces of a steel mills, Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Bolivia

But in the congressional run-off, the MIR sided with MNR, and Paz Estenssoro was chosen for a fourth term as President. (references)

Korea

The goal of this broad plan is to drastically reduce industrial pollution, sewage contamination, and agricultural waste run-off. (references)

Benin

During the 2001 elections, however, alleged irregularities and dubious practices led to a boycott of the run-off poll by the main opposition candidates. (references)

Political Economy

Romania

Its presidential candidate and party leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor came in second to Ion Iliescu in the presidential run-off. (references)

Uruguay

The system provides for a presidential run-off election to be held on the last Sunday of November if no presidential candidate obtains a simple majority in the first round. (references)

Ghana

In the December 28 run-off election, Kufuor defeated Mills by winning 56.73% of the vote and the NPP picked up one additional MP by winning a by-election, giving them 100 seats and a majority in Parliament. (references)

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

Beginning with "RUN-OFF": run-off-the-mill.

Danish

overfladisk afstrømning (rain water, storm water, surface water), afstroemning (runoff), afløb (drain-pipe, outlet-pipe, waste-pipe). (various references)

Dutch

langs oppervlakten wegstromende neerslag (rain water, storm water, surface water), debiet (capacity, dielectric flow rate, discharge, flow, flow rate, fluid yield, overturn, rate of flow, sales, throughput, turnover, water renewal, yield), afvoer (abduction, carrying off, discharge, transport), afspoeling (runoff). (various references)

Finnish

valunta (runoff), valuma (runoff, sagging), sade-ja sulamisvesi (rain water, storm water, surface water). (various references)

French

ruissellement pluvial, eau de ruissellement, eau de pluie, eau d'écoulement, débit, écoulement total (runoff), écoulement (runoff). (various references)

German

Regenwasserablauf (rain water, storm water, surface water), Traufwasser (rain water, storm water, surface water), Gesamtabfluss (actual flow, runoff), Durchflußmenge, Abwasser (drainage, effluence, effluent, sewage, slop, waste water), Ablaufwasser (escaped water, operation waste, rain water, storm water, surface water), Abflusswasser (rain water, storm water, surface water), Abfluss (discharge, drain, drainage, draining away, outflow, outlet). (various references)

Greek 

επιφανειακά νερά (rain water, storm water, surface water), απορροή (runoff). (various references)

Italian

ruscellamento (overland flow, runoff, surface flow, surface runoff), scolo (drain, drainage), portata (carload, carrying capacity, compass, course, delivery capacity, discharge, flow, importance, range, reach, scope, sweep), deflusso (outflow), acqua piovana (rainwater), acqua di scorrimento (rain water, storm water, surface water), acqua di ruscellamento (rain water, storm water, surface water). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

決選 (final election). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けっせ�" (bloody battle, deciding match, decisive battle, final election, play-off, thrombus). (various references)

Pig Latin

un-offray

Portuguese

escoamento superficial (overland flow, runoff), água de escorrimento (rain water, storm water, surface water), água de escoamento (rain water, storm water, surface water), água da chuva (rain water, storm water, surface water). (various references)

Spanish

gasto (disbursement, edition, expenditure, expense, installment, instalment, output, spending, version), escurrimiento (wring), escorrentía (overland flow, runoff), caudal (caudal, fortune, plenty, volume), aguas superficiales (surfacewater), aguas pluviales (rain water, storm water, surface water), agua de lluvia (rainwater). (various references)

Swedish

flöde (flood, flow, flux, river, stream, torrent), dagvatten (rain water, storm water, street wash, surface water), avrinning (outflow, runoff). (various references)

Turkish

sıradan (average, banal, blah, casual, casually, common, common or garden, commonplace, copybook, cut and dried, exoteric, hack, hackneyed, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, prosaic, quotidian, regular, routine, run-off-the-mill, small, straight, unexceptional, workaday), olağan (common, commonplace, everyday, mediocre, mundane, ordinary, regular, run-off-the-mill, usual), bayağı (banal, camp, cheap, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, corrupt, dastardly, debased, goodish, inferior, lewd, little, low camp, low class, no class, ordinary, plebeian, pretty, prosaic, quite, rather, run-off-the-mill, shoddy, tawdry, tolerably, vulgar), balotaj (run-off vote), alelâde (blah, common, common or garden, common place, commonly, hack, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, run-off-the-mill, workaday), adayların yeterli oyu sağlayamaması (run-off vote). (various references)

Misspellings

"RUN-OFF" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: runnoff. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: runoff.

-2 letters: four, ruff.

-3 letters: fon, for, fou, fro, fun, fur, nor, off, our, run, urn.

-4 letters: no, nu, of, on, or, un.

+1 letter: runoffs, turnoff.

+2 letters: turnoffs.

+3 letters: fungiform.

+4 letters: buffoonery, coiffuring, funnelform.

+5 letters: insufflator, offscouring, overruffing, unfortified.