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waterway

/waw-ter-wey, wot-er-/US // ˈwɔ tərˌweɪ, ˈwɒt ər- //UK // (ˈwɔːtəˌweɪ) //

水道,水路,水水道,航道

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.
    • : Shipbuilding. a depressed gutter at the edge of the deck inside the bulwarks, used especially when the decking is wooden.
    • : a channel for vessels, as a fairway in a harbor.

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Examples

  • The location would be good, especially if the Port and the California Coastal Commission permit the developer to cut a new waterway from the bay to the tower’s base.

  • Another 12 percent has been burned, and almost 80 percent has piled up on land or in waterways.

  • In their natural habitat, hippos spend the long dry season crowded into waterways that have shrunk to puddles.

  • Numerous global gatherings have celebrated the Whanganui River and other waterways that are now “persons.”

  • He and his team found 6PPD-quinone at toxic concentrations in previously collected samples of roadway runoff and contaminated waterways collected around Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

  • In the 1880s, the body of an unknown young woman was found floating in the Paris waterway.

  • To accompany this fine duo, we order sausage made in Hancock, just the other side of the Keweenaw Waterway.

  • Sewage running from their base has long polluted the waterway, but the authorities never paid attention.

  • This waterway was recently discovered, and by it there is a better route to Terrenate than was formerly followed.

  • The narrowness of the Isthmus naturally suggested the cutting of a waterway through it.

  • With its expansions, the narrow and deep Arrow lakes, it is an important waterway in the Kootenay region.

  • The black blur made by the wagon stockade and a tent or so was visible against the lighter line of the waterway of the Platte.

  • This narrow waterway that passes down between Asia on the one side and Africa on the other is stimulating to the imagination.