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SHAFT SPILLWAY

Specialty Definition: SHAFT SPILLWAY

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

Spillway consisting of entrance structures shaped like a vertical flared funnel with its top as the lip of the spillway, with central vertical or inclined shaft that carries discharge downward to tunnels leading to river channel below the dams. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: SHAFT SPILLWAY

Language Translations for "SHAFT SPILLWAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skaktoverloeb (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway), cirkelformet overloeb (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schachtoverloop (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tulvakuilu (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway). (various references)

   

French

  

évacuateur en puits. (various references)

   

German

  

Schachtueberlauf (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway), Trichterueberlauf (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway), ringfoermige Entlastungsanlage (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sfioratore a calice (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aftshay illwayspay

   

Portuguese

  

evacuador em poço (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pozo vertedero (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway), aliviadero en pozo (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

schaktöverfall (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SHAFT SPILLWAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-f-h-i-l-l-p-s-s-t-w-y"

-4 letters: phallists, platyfish, playlists, spatially, spillways, splashily, waspishly.

-5 letters: ashfalls, asphalts, fishways, flashily, flatwash, flatways, flypasts, hallways, pathways, phallist, pitfalls, playlist, sahiwals, shipways, slipways, spillway, staysail.

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

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1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
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