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| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | An expanding tube connecting the outlet passages of a turbine runner with the tail water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Personal Care & Hotels | In a plumbing system, a drainage pipe that carries or is designed to carry human excrement. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Fontana Dam looking downstream along center line of draft tube #1 from right bank at about elevation 1650. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "DRAFT TUBE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | faldstamme (down take pipe, draught tube, soil pipe, soil stack), faldrør (down take pipe, draught tube, soil pipe, soil stack). (various references) | |
Dutch | zuigleiding (aspirating leg, draught tube), valpijp (down pipe, down take pipe, downspout, drain-pipe, draught tube, gutter, rain water pipe, soil pipe, soil stack), gootpijp (discharge pipe, down take pipe, downpipe, draught tube, soil pipe, soil stack, spill pipe, spout, waste pipe), afvoerkanaal vanuit de turbine (draught tube). (various references) | |
Finnish | imuputki (draught tube, siphon, tailpipe). (various references) | |
French | tuyau de descente (draught tube), tuyau de chute (draught tube), aspirateur (draught tube). (various references) | |
German | Saugrohr (suction tube), Fallrohr (down take pipe, downcomer, downpipe, downspout, draught tube, rainpipe, rainwater pipe, roof leader, soil pipe, soil stack), Auslaufrohr (draught tube), Auslauf (discharge, leakage, outlet, outrun, room to run about, run out, slowing down), Abfallrohr (down pipe, down take pipe, downspout, drain-pipe, draught tube, gutter, rain water pipe, soil pipe, soil stack). (various references) | |
Italian | tubo discendente (down take pipe, down-comer, draught tube, soil pipe, soil stack), tubo di caduta (down take pipe, draught tube, soil pipe, soil stack), aspiratore (aspirator). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aftdray ubetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tubo de aspiração (draught tube, nozzle). (various references) | |
Spanish | tubo de aspiración (draught tube). (various references) | |
Swedish | sugrör (straw). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-f-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: abutted, abutter, tartufe. | |
-3 letters: arbute, barfed, batted, batter, battue, bruted, butted, butter, dafter, dauber, fatted, fatter, rafted, ratted, rutted, tabued, tarted, tauted, tauter, tetrad, tubate, tufted, tufter, turfed. | |
-4 letters: after, ardeb, barde, bared, bated, battu, beard, beaut, betta, bread, brute, buret, butte, dater, daube, debar, debut, defat, derat, draft, fader, fared, fated, feuar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-f-r-t-t-u" | |
+3 letters: flutterboard. | |
+4 letters: flutterboards. | |
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| 1. Images: Photo Album 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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