(n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) He mentions practical measures that are needed such as heat wave action plans, elevating critical infrastructure and increasing the size of culverts and drainage pipes.
(2) Work is already in hand to take the River Roch out of its culvert and give the town hall prettier surroundings, but years of neglect and council-inspired vandalism will have to be rectified in the building itself.
(3) The destabilisation of bridges, weirs, culverts and river walls, whose foundations are undermined by deepening the channel: "If the river channels are dredged and structures are not realigned, 'Pinch Points' at structures would occur.
(4) Compared with the management methods of: 1) open to the estuary with culverts and, 2) passive retention of water with flapgate risers, RIM proved to be significantly more effective in reducing mosquito production.
(5) There are endless numbers of people responsible for things like ditches, drains, culverts, and sewage.
(6) This weekend the EA celebrated the new era in east London, where the once featureless Sutcliffe Park has had the river Quaggy liberated from an underground concrete culvert into the newly moulded landscape.
(7) Over two years, the management regimes of: 1) opening a southeast Florida salt marsh impoundment to the adjacent estuary with culverts through the dike, then, 2) passively retaining water with flapgate risers was studied to determine the effects on marsh flooding and resultant mosquito production.
(8) The nearby village of Walsden was hit by up to 46cm of water, causing "sheer devastation", according to residents, as it poured from a culvert and down a side street, ripping huge chunks out of the road surface and destroying the road.
(9) From inflated insurance premiums to the alleged need to belatedly dredge waterways, their aftermath is often talked about using a strange mixture of official speak and hydrological arcana such as culvert and bund - respectively, an underground water channel and defensive embankment.
(10) The IRA had built an enormous bomb inside a culvert under the road, and when it was detonated by a control wire, the Cortina was hurled 70ft in the air.
(11) The first epizootic was discovered in 22% of clams collected as Searsport near Long Cove Brook and three culverts that conveyed heating oil and jet fuel spilled from a tank farm in 1971.
(12) Improvements included "an expensive cattle kraal with a culvert and chicken run, a swimming pool, an amphitheatre [and] marquee area", as well as "extensive paving and the relocation of neighbours who used to form part of the original homestead".
(13) Severe flooding in nearby Lewisham town centre in 1968 prompted building of the Sutcliffe Park concrete culvert, whose smoother channel would more rapidly carry water surges away.
Drain
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
(v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
(v. t.) To filter.
(v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
(v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
(n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
(n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
(n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(2) Intraperitoneal drain should therefore be used when choledochus has been explored.
(3) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
(4) Ovarian venous concentrations of these four steroids from the side draining the tumor-bearing ovary were increased in 40 to 80% of the women.
(5) Radioactive lactic acid was detected in the drained perfusion solution with D(U-14C)-glucose, but not when D(U-14C)-fructose was used.
(6) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
(7) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
(8) In tests on 13 cells pacing at a 200 mua drain without recharging, the simulated mean duration of pacing before total discharge was 4.8 years.
(9) An abscess of a lingual tonsil should be drained under general anesthesia, and lingual thyroid should be treated conservatively unless it produces obstructive symptoms.
(10) Among them 8 cases were coelio-drained for 24 hours with very little thin bloody drainage.
(11) Lymphocytes obtained from lymph nodes draining foot pads infected with R. conorii or R. akari demonstrated cross-reactivity similar to that found with immune spleen cells.
(12) The experiments show that the single cephalad channel venous island flap is perfused by and drains through its single cephalad vein.
(13) But it has a tainted reputation: the 2007 foot and mouth outbreak was traced to a leak from Pirbright’s drains.
(14) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
(15) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
(16) In 13 growing pigs (mini-pigs) all veins draining the head of femur were ligated intra-abdominally.
(17) However, we demonstrate that topical exposure to DNTB causes activation of the draining lymph node in mice and the induction of contact sensitization in both rodents and a single human volunteer.
(18) The malformations over the surface drain into the superior sagittal sinus.
(19) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
(20) The region was perfused at constant flow through the aorta and drained at constant pressure from the inferior vena cava.