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STILLING WELL

Specialty Definition: STILLING WELL

DomainDefinition

Geography

A chamber or a compartment whith closed sides and bottom, provided with an inlet or inlets communicating with the river or canal. Its purpose is to dampen waves or surges in the parent stream while permitting the water level in the well to rise and fall with the major fluctuations of the level in the river or canal. The gauge device is installed in this. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A chamber connected to a main body of water by a small inlet; such anarrangement is suitable for a recording gage. (references)

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

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Expression: STILLING WELL

Expression using "STILLING WELL": stilling well shaft. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STILLING WELL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

stilling well

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: STILLING WELL

Language Translations for "STILLING WELL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

observationsbroend (float well, gauge well, recorder well). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

meetbuis (float well, gauge well, recorder well). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mittarikaivo (float well, gauge well, recorder well). (various references)

   

French

  

puits de mesure, puits de mesurage (stilling-well). (various references)

   

German

  

Pegelschacht (float well, gauge well, recorder well). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φρεάτιον μετρήσεως ή ηρεμίας (float well, gauge well, recorder well). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pozzetto di misura (float well, gauge well, recorder well). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

illingstay ellway

   

Portuguese

  

poço de medidas (float well, gauge well, recorder well). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pozo de limnígrafo (float well, gauge well, recorder well). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

pegelbrunn (float well, gauge well, recorder well, stilling well shaft). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STILLING WELL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-l-l-l-l-n-s-t-w"

-2 letters: willingest.

-3 letters: twillings.

-4 letters: gillnets, lignites, lingiest, niellist, stilling, swelling, swilling, twilling, weltings, wingiest, winglets, witlings.

-5 letters: gillies, gillnet, glisten, ignites, illites, instill, lentils, lignite, lilting, liniest, lintels, listing, selling, silting, singlet, slewing, stewing, swingle, telling, tilings, tilling, tingles, twinges, welling, welting, westing, wiglets, wiliest, willets, willies, willing, wilting, winglet, winiest, wintles, wisting, witling.

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

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2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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