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Definitions: Watercourse |
WatercourseNoun1. Natural or artificial channel through which water flows. 2. A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth. 3. A conduit through which water flows. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "watercourse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | A stone, concrete, corduroyed, or other firm surface taking a road through a stream. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Circular or elongated hole pierced in the lower part of the floor plates just above the vertical flange of the frame angle bar and in the vicinity of the middle-line keelson or vertical keel for drainage purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | A body of water flowing in a usually natural surface channel. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A natural or artificial depression in the land surface which periodically or continuously contains running water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Hydrologic | Any surface flow such as a river, stream, tributary. (references) |
Mining | A. A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water, as a river, canal, flume, or drainage tunnel. b. A subsurface opening or passage in rocks through which groundwaterflows. (references) |
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Synonyms: WatercourseSynonyms: stream (n), waterway (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: limbering (food & agriculture). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Watercourse |
| English words defined with "watercourse": Barranca ♦ flume ♦ industrial watercourse ♦ tailrace. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "watercourse": actual flow, aggradation ♦ bank slope ♦ channel alignment, contour race ♦ down the watercourse turn ♦ Effluent Stream ♦ flood plain, fluvial dynamics, fluvial morphology ♦ Gaging Station, gauton, Grassed Waterway ♦ Influent Stream, intake point ♦ large river ♦ major river, mountain river, mountain stream, mountain torrent ♦ nikal ♦ Overland Flow ♦ Receiving Waters, return point, riparian rights, river dynamics, river morphology ♦ shovel cut, silting up, spate irrigation, straightening ♦ tail escapes, tailwater, through channels, torrential river, torrential stream ♦ valley flat ♦ waste channels. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A conservation buffer will be established in this watercourse and be studied by Texas Tech University. Area is in the Lake Rathbun watershed.Credit: Lynn Betts. |
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| "Watercourse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.36% of the time. "Watercourse" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.36% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "watercourse": down the watercourse turn ♦ industrial watercourse. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
watercourse way | 39 |
watercourse | 8 |
alto palo watercourse way | 5 |
spa watercourse way | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "watercourse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | bedding (bed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vijë uji (runlet, runnel), rrjedhë (course, current, drift, effluence, flow, March, onflow, run, tenor, tide), përrua (Beck, bourn, Bourne, branch, Brook, brooklet, Creek, flow, nullah, rain, small river, Spruit, stream, streamlet, torrent), kanal (aqueduct, canal, chamfer, channel, conduit, cut, ditch, drain, duct, excavation, flute, Fosse, gully, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, trench, tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ممر مائي (fairway, strait, thoroughfare, waterway), مجرى مائي (waterway), جدول نهر صغيرة (creek). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ручей (bourn, burn, rill, run, runnel), речно корито, река (river, stream, water), рекичка (rivulet, small river, streamlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 漕 (canal, transport by water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vodní tok (water course). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vadested (dry wash, ford, Irish bridge, watersplash), lemmergat (drainage hole, limber hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | waterloggat (drainage hole, limber hole), voorde (dry wash, ford, Irish bridge, watersplash), voord (dry wash, ford, Irish bridge, watersplash), stroombedding (bed), lokgat * (drainage hole, limber hole), loggat (drainage hole, limber hole), doorwaadbare plaats (dry wash, ford, ford crossing, Irish bridge, watersplash), bedding (bed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | fluejo (bed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vesireikä (drainage hole, limber hole), veden virtausreikä (drainage hole, limber hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cours d'eau (water course). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wasserlauf (Creek). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χείμαρροσ (stream), εκτόπισμα (displacement), Πέραμα πόρος (dry wash, ford, Irish bridge, watersplash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | folyó víz (water-course). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alveo (bed, channel, riverbed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stroo (current, race, stream, tidal flow, tide-race), gill (valley), coorse ushtey (waterway), clash ushtey (moat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atercourseway vau (Ford, Wade), curso de água (flow, nullah, river, stream), canal (canal, channel, conduit, deferent, dike, duct, dyke, Fosse, gat, gate, gullibility, hollow, it, meaty, outlet, runway, tube, water-way), boeira (drainage hole, limber hole). (various references) râu (flood, river, stream), fluviu (flood, river, stream), canal de scurgere (culvert, drain, horn-gate, leader, sewer, spout). (various references) поток (current, flow, flux, gush, outpour, rain, shower, spate, stream, tide, torrance, torrent, volley). (various references) madre (bed, dam, home, mother, parent), corriente de agua, cauce (bed, channel, nullah, riverbed, Wadi). (various references) vattendrag (ditch, stream). (various references) suyolu (canal, channel, conduit, culvert, ditch, eaves, flume, gully, gully drain, gutter, offtake, thoroughfare, trench), su yolu (channel, conduit), nehir yatağı (bed, channel, river bed), dere (Beck, bourn, Bourne, branch, Brook, burn, Creek, dale, gully, kloof, rivulet, run, runlet, runnel, stream, Vale, valley), çay (bourn, branch, burn, rill, rivulet, run, runlet, runnel, stream, streamlet, tea, tea party). (various references) струмок (arroyo, bourn, dribble, effluent, nullah, nymph, rivulet, streamlet, wash, wellspring), русло (bed, channel), ріка (river), канал (aqueduct, artery, canal, channel, deferent, ditch, feeder, sluice). (various references) suối lòng sông, sông (bathe, bather, strand), lòng suối. (various references) dyfrffos (aqueduct, canal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | a, ida. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 38, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TiV de htoimasen uetw labrw rusin odon de kudoimwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quis dedit vehementissimo imbri cursum et viam sonantis tonitrui |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Who yaf to the most hidous weder cours, and weie of the sounende thunder? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder; |
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| Language | Job Chapter 38, Verse 25 |
| Albanian | Kush ka hapur një kanal për ujërat që vërshojnë dhe rrugën për bubullimën e rrufeve, |
| Cebuano | ¶ Kinsa ba ang nagkutkut ug kanal alang sa tubig nga mosalanap; Kun usa ka agianan alang sa kilat sa dalugdug; |
| Chinese | 誰 為 雨 水 分 道 、 誰 為 雷 電 開 路 ． |
| Croatian | Tko li je jaz iskopao povodnju, tko prokrèio pute grmljavini |
| Danish | Hvem åbnede Regnen en Rende og Tordenens Lyn en Vej |
| Dutch | Wie deelt voor den stortregen een waterloop uit, en een weg voor het weerlicht der donderen? |
| Finnish | Kuka on avannut kuurnan sadekuurolle ja ukkospilvelle tien, |
| French | Qui a ouvert un passage à la pluie, Et tracé la route de l`éclair et du tonnerre, |
| German | Wer hat dem Platzregen seinen Lauf ausgeteilt und den Weg dem Blitz und dem Donner |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Ou konnen ki moun ki fè wout bay lapli tonbe, ki moun ki fè chemen pou loraj la, |
| Hungarian | Ki hasított nyílást a záporesõnek, és a mennydörgõ villámnak útat? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Siapakah yang menggali saluran bagi hujan lebat dan memberi jalan bagi guruh dan kilat? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Siapa sudah membuka saluran bagi air hujan yang deras, dan suatu jalan bagi mata petir? |
| Italian | Chi ha scavato canali agli acquazzoni e una strada alla nube tonante, |
| Maori | ¶ Na wai i wehe he awa mo te waipuke, he ara mo te uira o te whatitiri; |
| Norwegian | Hvem har åpnet renner for regnskyllet og vei for lynstrålen |
| Portuguese | Quem abriu canais para o aguaceiro, e um caminho para o relâmpago do trovão; |
| Rumanian | Cine a deschis un loc de scurgere ploii, wi a knsemnat drumul fulgerului wi al tunetului, |
| Russian | лФП РТПЧПДЙФ РТПФПЛЙ ДМС ЙЪМЙСОЙС ЧПДЩ Й РХФШ ДМС ЗТПНПОПУОПК НПМОЙЙ, |
| Swedish | Vem har åt regnflödet öppnat en ränna och banat en väg för tordönets stråle, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "watercourse": watercourses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-o-r-r-s-t-u-w" | |
-1 letter: courseware. | |
-2 letters: creatures, outerwear, rosewater. | |
-3 letters: austerer, carouser, caterers, courters, creators, creature, curators, ecraseur, erectors, outraces, outsware, outswear, outwears, reactors, rearouse, recourse, recrates, reroutes, resource, retraces, secateur, secretor, terraces, treasure, waterers. | |
-4 letters: acerose, acerous, acetose, acetous, arouser, austere, careers, carouse, carrots, carters, caterer, cerates, cesurae, coarser, coaster, coatees, coaters, coteaus, courser, courter, couters, craters. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-o-r-r-s-t-u-w" | |
+1 letter: watercourses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 74 65 72 63 6F 75 72 73 65 |
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