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waterworks
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun waterworks has 2 senses
- waterworks(n = noun.group) water company - a public utility that provides water; Array is a kind of public-service corporation, public utility, public utility company, utility
- waterworks(n = noun.artifact) Array - workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community; Array is a kind of work, workplace
OXFORD DICTIONARY
waterworks, n.
1 an establishment for managing a water-supply.
2 colloq. the shedding of tears.
3 Brit. colloq. the urinary system.
1 an establishment for managing a water-supply.
2 colloq. the shedding of tears.
3 Brit. colloq. the urinary system.
THESAURUS
waterworks
aqueduct, arroyo, bed, bleachworks, bottling works, brassworks, canal, copperworks, creek bed, culvert, donga, dry bed, dye works, flume, gasworks, glassworks, gulch, gully, gullyhole, headrace, ironworks, irrigation ditch, metalworks, nullah, paper works, printworks, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, saltworks, scrapworks, sluice, soapworks, spillbox, spillway, starchworks, steelworks, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, tileworks, tryworks, tubeworks, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, wireworks, worksROGET THESAURUS
waterworks
Conduit
N 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, funnel, tunnel, 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, pipeline, vascular.
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