Drainage Ditch

Definition: Drainage Ditch

Drainage Ditch

Noun

1. A ditch for carrying off excess water or sewage.

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

Building & Civil Engineering

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

Crosswords: Drainage Ditch

Domestic species are those that breed close to human habitation. This street-side drainage ditch contains the larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus. Credit: CDC.

Tile outlet into drainage ditch in central Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Constructed drainage ditch in north-central Iowa. Drainage districts were formed in the 1900's to build and maintain such major drainage ditches to allow better drainage of croplands. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Sanitary engineering : Drainage ditch through mangrove forest. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Drainage ditch running through center of project, Chicot Farms, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Southeast Missouri Farms Project. Drainage ditch. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Czech

drenážní příkop. (various references)

Danish

groeft (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch), afvandingsgroeft (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch), afskaerende groeft (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch). (various references)

Dutch

sloot voor het opvangen(verzamelen)van percolatiewater (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch), sloot (ditch, hole, pit), afwateringssloot (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch), afwateringsgreppel (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch), afvoersloot (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch, outlet, outlet ditch, outlet drain, turn-out), afsnijdende sloot (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch). (various references)

French

fosse d'interception des eaux de ruissellement (catchwater drain), fosse d'écoulement (catchwater drain), fosse (catchwater drain, dredged berth). (various references)

German

Graben (burrow, canal, channel, cut, cutting, dig, ditch, engrave, excavation, fosse, grub, gutter, hole, mine, moat, pit, pole, prospect, rift, scoop out, spade, to burrow, to dig, to dig (dug, to sink, to trench, trench, water jump), Entwaesserungsgraben (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch). (various references)

Greek 

γ)τάφρος συγκεντρώσεως υδάτων επιφανειακής απορροής (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch). (various references)

Hungarian

víztelenítő árok, lecsapoló árok (trench). (various references)

Indonesian

comberan (sewer). (various references)

Italian

fossato (ditch, Fosse, moat), fossadi drenaggio (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch), fossa di scolo (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, ditch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

下水溝 (canal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほうすいろ (drain), �'すい�"う (canal). (various references)

Pig Latin

ainagedray itchday

Swedish

avloppsdike (outlet drain, turn-out). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: eradicating, readdicting.

-3 letters: acierating, antheridia, dedicating, eradiating, radicating.

-4 letters: addicting, andradite, candidate, carinated, chagrined, crediting, dendritic, detaching, directing, dithering, hagridden, indagated, indicated, radiating, radicated, redacting, threading, tragedian, trichinae.

-5 letters: acidhead, acridine, actiniae, actinide, adhering, aerating, airthing, antherid, arachnid, arcading, argentic, candider, carangid, cardigan, carinate, catering, cathedra, chairing, chantage, charting, cheating, chigetai, craniate, creating, ctenidia.

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