Crossword clues for aqueduct
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aqueduct \Aq"ue*duct\, n. [F. aqueduc, OF. aqueduct (Cotgr.), fr. L. aquaeductus; aquae, gen. of aqua water + ductus a leading, ducere to lead. See Aqua, Duke.]
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A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.
Note: The term is also applied to a structure (similar to the ancient aqueducts), for conveying a canal over a river or hollow; more properly called an aqueduct bridge.
(Anat.) A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. 2 A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially in regards to ancient aqueducts.
WordNet
n. a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley
Wikipedia
Aqueduct is a Seattle, Washington-based indie pop band originally hailing from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Initially the band was a one-man act, created and produced by David Terry in his bedroom. Supporting members have more recently been added to the group. Aqueduct has played with Seattle bands United State of Electronica, Modest Mouse, and Death Cab for Cutie among others. They have received praise for their application of synthpop meter, drum, and piano, which has become more complex as the band has grown in membership.
Aqueduct may refer to:
Aqueduct (Peter van Zante), originally known as Water Wizard, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to convey water. In modern engineering, the term aqueduct is used for any system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and other structures used for this purpose. The term aqueduct also often refers specifically to a bridge on an artificial watercourse. The word is derived from the Latin ("water") and ("to lead"). Aqueducts were used in ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, and ancient Rome. In modern times, the largest aqueducts of all have been built in the United States to supply the country's biggest cities. The simplest aqueducts are small ditches cut into the earth. Much larger channels may be used in modern aqueducts. Aqueducts sometimes run for some or all of their path through tunnels constructed underground. Modern aqueducts may also use pipelines. Historically, agricultural societies have constructed aqueducts to irrigate crops and supply large cities with drinking water.
Bridges for conveying water, called aqueducts or water bridges are constructed to convey watercourses across gaps such as valleys or ravines. The term aqueduct may also be used to refer to the entire watercourse, as well as the bridge. Large navigable aqueducts are used as transport links for boats or ships. Aqueducts must span a crossing at the same level as the watercourses on each end. The word is derived from the Latin ("water") and ("to lead"). A modern version of an aqueduct is a pipeline bridge.
Usage examples of "aqueduct".
The mainline of the aqueduct would be up in that hill at the back of the villa, buried a yard beneath the surface, running on an axis north to south, from Baiae down to the Piscina Mirabilis.
The aqueduct, the immense Aqua Augusta, seemed to be dying in his hands.
Out of sight, beyond the pillars, he could hear the aqueduct disgorging into the reservoir, but with nothing like its normal percussive force.
Two horses, a pair of riders, surrounded by the gang of aqueduct workers who had abandoned their evening meal to listen to what was happening.
In Rome, when an aqueduct has to be closed for repairs, it stays shut down for weeks.
I can tell you is that the matrix of an aqueduct is built to withstand the most extreme forces.
In the rush of leaving Rome and fretting about the aqueduct he had completely lost track of the calendar.
That was because his father had known the laws of engineering and had opened the sluices at the head of the aqueduct exactly eighteen hours before the ceremony was due to reach its climax, and had ridden back into the city faster than the water could chase him.
She caught a glimpse of the Roman aqueduct and the massive ramparts of the Crusader City, and then she was following the old coastal road past the Dan Caesarea Hotel with its 18-hole golf course secured behind a perimeter of high fence and concertina barbed wire.
Saul walked out from the top of a dune on to the surface of an aqueduct that rose twenty-five feet above the sand and stretched for miles towards the cluster of ruins and new buildings near the sea.
She hugged her knees and looked out over the expanse of sand that lapped against the yellow stone aqueduct like a tan and frozen sea.
The sun was getting lower in the southwest, throwing the intricate shadows of their aqueduct farther across the dunes.
Touching her lightly on the arm, he turned her back for the long walk along the aqueduct, their shadows mingling, bending, and twisting along the high banks of encroaching sand.
After the cheese and fruit dessert, Natalie wanted to visit the aqueduct and take their coffee with them so Saul filled the steel Thermos while she went to her room and got a thick sweater from her suitcase.
Think of a stone aqueduct reaching from the city of New York to the State of North Carolina!