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DIVERSION WEIR

Specialty Definition: DIVERSION WEIR

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Building & Civil Engineering

A barrier for diverting part or all of a stream into a canal. Source: European Union. (references)

Public Administration

A structure designed to divert water from the main channel. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: DIVERSION WEIR

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

Danish

  

omledningsdæmning (anicut, diversion dam). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dam of stuw t.b.v.waterinlaat (anicut, diversion dam). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ohijuoksutuspato (anicut, diversion dam). (various references)

   

French

  

ouvrage de dérivation (diversion structure, diversion works), barrage hydro-électrique au fil de l'eau (diversion dam), barrage de prise (diversion dam), barrage de dérivation (diversion dam). (various references)

   

German

  

Wehr (barrage, defence, defense, dike, embankment, lasher, weir), Verzweigungsbauwerk (diversion structure, diversion works), Umleitungswehr (anicut, diversion dam), Umleitungssperre (anicut, diversion dam), Stauwehr (weir), Ableitungsbauwerk (diversion structure, diversion work, diversion works, headworks). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φράγμα εκτροπής (anicut, diversion dam, weir). (various references)

   

Italian

  

diga di derivazione (anicut, deflection dike, diversion dam, diversion dike, training dike), traversa di presa (anicut, diversion dam), traversa di derivazione (anicut, diversion dam), opera di derivazione (diversion structure, diversion works), briglia di trattenuta (diversion dam). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iversionday eirway

   

Portuguese

  

barragem de derivação (anicut, diversion dam). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dique de derivación (diversion dam), presa de derivación o de toma (anicut, diversion dam). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

damm för om-eller förbiledning (anicut, diversion dam). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DIVERSION WEIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-i-n-o-r-r-s-v-w"

-3 letters: redivision.

-4 letters: diversion, downriver, ironweeds, overdries, overrides, overwinds, reversion, rewinders, riverside, rosinweed, wonderers.

-5 letters: derision, derisive, derivers, diviners, divinise, division, doweries, drowners, drowsier, endorser, endowers, eversion, indorsee, indorser, ironside, ironweed, nosedive, overdrew, override, oversewn, overside, overwide, overwind, overwise, redriven, redrives, reendows, resinoid, revision, rewidens, rewinder, riverine, rivieres, verniers, vineries, visioned, weirdies, weirdoes, wideners.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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