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PLUMB-LINE SHAFT

Specialty Definition: PLUMB-LINE SHAFT

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Building & Civil Engineering

A shaft located near the maximum section of a dam in order to make observations of the movements of the dam with respect to the base. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: PLUMB-LINE SHAFT

Language Translations for "PLUMB-LINE SHAFT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skakt (adit, chute, collimator shaft, core, cored hole, discharge pipe, gallery, hopper, lifting hole, shaft, slot, tower, tunnel, void, well), lodline (collimator shaft, lead, plumb-line). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

loodlijnschacht (collimator shaft). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

luotilanka-akseli (collimator shaft). (various references)

   

French

  

puits du fil plomb. (various references)

   

German

  

Lotleinen-Schacht (collimator shaft). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φρέαρ ελέγχου κινήσεων (collimator shaft). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pozzo di alloggiamento del filo a piombo (collimator shaft). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umb-lineplay aftshay

   

Portuguese

  

poço a fio de prumo (collimator shaft). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lodlinjeschakt (collimator shaft). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PLUMB-LINE SHAFT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-h-i-l-l-m-n-p-s-t-u"

-3 letters: painfullest, thimblefuls.

-4 letters: fulminates, multiflash, multiphase, penultimas, punishable, thimbleful, thumbnails.

-5 letters: bailments, bisulfate, blueshift, bulletins, filaments, fishplate, flashtube, flatlines, flushable, fulminate, halftimes, haulmiest, imputable, libelants, multilane, multiples, pantheism, penultima, plaintful, platefuls, platesful, platinums, plausible, plentiful, pulsatile, shiftable, subalpine, sublethal, sublimate, tablefuls, tablesful, thalliums, thumbnail, tumplines.

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

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2. Anagrams
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