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The outlet of a river or drain or other source of water
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outfall
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN sewage ▪ The research began after the discovery of hermaphrodite carp next to a large sewage outfall . ▪ At low tide, the sewage outfall at Porthleven harbour can be seen depositing thick sludge into the sea. EXAMPLES ...
Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 vb. (context transitive obsolete English) To burst forth, as upon an enemy; make a sally. Etymology 2 n. 1 (context obsolete English) A sudden eruption of troops from a fortified place; sally. 2 (context dialectal English) A quarrel; a falling ...
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n. the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outfall \Out"fall`\, n. The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs. A quarrel; a falling out. [Prov. Eng.]
Wikipedia
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An outfall is the discharge point of a waste stream into a body of water; alternatively it may be the outlet of a river , drain or a sewer where it discharges into the sea , a lake or the like. In the United States, industrial facilities that discharge ...
Usage examples of outfall.
Those heard it who dwelt in the Colchian land very far from Titanian Aea, near the outfall of Lycus, the river which parts from loud-roaring Araxes and blends his sacred stream with Phasis, and they twain flow on together in one and pour their waters into the Caucasian Sea.
As lord of the marches and guardian of an exposed country-side, there was little rest for him even in times of so-called peace, and his whole life was spent in raids and outfalls upon the Brabanters, late-comers, flayers free companions, and roving archers who wandered over his province.
I have seen Frenchmen fight both in open field, in the intaking and the defending of towns or castlewicks, in escalados, camisades, night forays, bushments, sallies, outfalls, and knightly spear-runnings.
He found several outfalls of underground streams, but only one seemed to have the flow velocity and position to make it a likely candidate.
Low hills rolled up to the north, covered with a browngold mossgrass and outfalls of rock.
They dump fluorescent green dye into industrial outfalls so that news choppers can hover overhead and get spectacular footage of how pollution spreads.
And here is the outfall of the river Acheron which bursts its way through the headland and falls into the Eastern sea, and a hollow ravine brings it down from above.
As the four rode two by two across the narrow bridge over the tower outfall drainageway, Ryba said, "The bridge is solid, and the paved part feels that way, too.
Below the lower outfalls, the cold rushing water, both from the runoff diverted from around the bathhouse and tower and from the drainage system, had cut an even deeper gouge through the low point of the muddy swathe that had been a road, a depression that was fast becoming a small gorge.
A rectangle of outfalling kitchen light revealed a porch floor painted pearl-gray and remarkably free of dust for the porch of a house in a desert town.
But if the water pipe was not filled with obstructions or too narrow for a man, they might have the pleasure of exploring their cave from entrance shaft to outfall before they shared the secret of its existence with the caving fraternity.