Spillway

Definition: Spillway

Spillway

Noun

1. A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Building & Civil Engineering

Energy

Public Administration

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Synonyms: Spillway

Crosswords: Spillway

The Sacrifice at the Spillway (1913)

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Books

• Proceedings of the Workshop on Spillway Design : Monash University, Melbourne, 7-9 October 1981 (reference)

• Spillway gates : case studies (reference)

• The spillway : columns from the Baltimore sun, 1956-1960 (reference)

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West Fork Blackbird Creek, a tailing facility. The structure to the right is a spillway. Several million cubic yards contaminated tailings are behind the dam. Water is diverted into a concrete channel so it does not come into contact with the tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Water rushes through a spillway of a large dam in Missouri. The dam generates electricity and helps control flooding. The man-made reservoir also provides water-related recreation. Credit: Norm Klopfenstein.

Tualatin Valley Irrigation District emplyee, Wally Otto, at irrigation gates and spillway. The Irrigation District uses NRCS snow survey data to manage water use. Credit: Ron Nichols.

Boulder dam, between Arizona and Nevada. Sept. 1941. A view of the Arizona spillway with the downstream drum gates lowered a short distance from a point above the portal of the incline tunnel. Credit: Library of Congress.

At the foot of the spillway at Gatun Dam, Panama Canal. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gatun Lake spillway, Panama Canal. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gatun spillway, Panama Canal. Credit: Library of Congress.

Men working on forms for concrete wall for spillway. Martin Company development project. Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Widtsoe land use adjustment project. Garfield County, Utah. Excavating new spillway of Tropic Dam. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant. Close-up of spillway. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "spillway": circular drop inlet spillway ♦ controlled spillway ♦ gated spillway ♦ glory hole spillway ♦ morning glory spillway ♦ shaft spillway ♦ spillway section ♦ uncontrolled spillway ♦ ungated spillway. Additional references.

Albanian

kanal shkarkimi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قناة لتصريف فائض المياه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

преливник (lasher, overfall, overflow, sink, sluice). (various references)

Danish

overløb (overflow, overrun, spillage, weir), overfald (assault, clamp, overflow, overflow dam, weir), afledningskanal, aflastningsbygvaerk (flood water spillway), aflastningsbygværk (overflow), aflastningsanlæg (overflow). (various references)

Dutch

stuwcomplex (spillweir, weir), overstort (flood water spillway), overlaat (commutation method, flood water spillway, overflow, warping), hoogwaterafvoer (flood water spillway), afvoerkanaal (discharge culvert, distributing chute, overflow, sewer), aflaatwerk (diversion structure, diversion work, headworks). (various references)

Finnish

standardiharjainen suppilotulva-aukko (standard-crested morning glory spillway), ylisyöksyaukko (uncontrolled spillway, ungated spillway), tulvakuilu (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway, shaft spillway), tasaharjainen suppilotulva-aukko (flat-crested morning glory spillway), luukullinen tulva-aukko (controlled spillway, gated spillway). (various references)

French

déversoir (spillweir). (various references)

German

Überlauf (overflow, overrun). (various references)

Greek 

υπερχειλιστής (overflow, weir), φράγμα (barricade, barrier, dam, dike, groyne), εκχυλιστής (overflow), εκχειλιστής (overflow, weir), αύλαξ πλεονάζοντοσ ύδατοσ δεξαμενήσ. (various references)

Indonesian

pelimpah. (various references)

Italian

sfioratore (overfall, overflow, overflow structure, spillweir, weir). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

余水路 , 余水吐 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

よすいろ, よすいはき. (various references)

Pig Latin

illwayspay

Portuguese

desaguadouro (overflow). (various references)

Russian 

водослив (lasher, overfall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prelivnik (overfall). (various references)

Spanish

vertedero (chute, dump, rubbish dump, shoot, tip), aliviadero (shoot). (various references)

Swedish

schaktöverfall (circular drop inlet spillway, glory hole spillway, morning glory spillway, shaft spillway), typ av schaktöverfall (flat-crested morning glory spillway, standard-crested morning glory spillway), reglerbart utskov (controlled spillway, gated spillway), fast utskov (uncontrolled spillway, ungated spillway), ej reglerbart utskov (uncontrolled spillway, ungated spillway), överfall (assault, attack, mugging). (various references)

Turkish

sıvı akma yolu. (various references)

Ukrainian

водозлив (overfall, overflow, overflow-dike). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đập tr� n (overfall). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spillway": spillways. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spillway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Plioway, Shillay, Spellacy. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: slipway, waspily.

-2 letters: pilaws, psylla.

-3 letters: lapis, pails, palls, pally, palsy, pawls, pilaw, pills, plays, sally, silly, slily, spail, spall, spill, splay, swail, swill, wails, walls, wally, waspy, wills, willy, wispy, yawls, yawps, yills.

-4 letters: ails, alls, ally, alps, awls, ills, illy, laps, laws, lays, lily, lipa, lips, lisp, pail, pall, pals, paly, pawl.

+1 letter: spillways.