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DIVERSION WORK

Specialty Definition: DIVERSION WORK

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

A collective term for all works(weirs or diversion dams, head regulators, upstream and downstream river training works and their appurtenant structures)required at intakes of main or principal canals to divert and control river flows and to regulate water supplies into the main canal or canals. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: DIVERSION WORK

Synonym by domain: headwork (building & civil engineering).

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Modern Translation: DIVERSION WORK

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

Danish

  

reguleringsanlaeg ved kanaler (diversion structure, headworks). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stuw (dam), reguleringswerk (diversion structure, headworks), aflaatwerk (diversion structure, headworks, spillway). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ohjausrakenne (control strategy, control structure, diversion structure, headworks, reasoning strategy). (various references)

   

French

  

dérivation (diversion), ouvrages de dérivation (diversion structure, diversion structures). (various references)

   

German

  

Stauanlage (barrage, diversion structure, headworks), Stau (barrier effect, build up, congestion, jam, pile-up, pond, stagnation, stoppage, traffic congestion, traffic jam), Regulierungsbauwerk (diversion structure, headworks), Leitwerk (control unit, diversion structure, empennage, empennage assembly, headworks, instruction control unit, jetty, piled fendering, staging, tail unit, timber staging, wing), Ableitungsbauwerk (diversion structure, diversion weir, diversion works, headworks). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έργα υδροληψίας (diversion structure, diversion structures, headworks, intake structures), έργα εκτροπής (diversion structure, headworks). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iversionday orkway

   

Portuguese

  

estruturas de tomada de água (diversion structure, diversion structures, headworks, intake structures), estruturas de derivação (diversion structure, headworks). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vattenregleringsanläggning (diversion structure, headworks). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DIVERSION WORK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: overdrinks.

-4 letters: diversion, downriver, ironworks, overdrink, overwinds, overwords, overworks.

-5 letters: derision, diviners, drinkers, drowners, drowsier, endorsor, indorser, indorsor, inkwoods, invokers, ironside, ironwork, overkind, overwind, overword, overwork, overworn, resinoid, revision, sorrowed, visioned, woodsier.

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

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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