单词 | flume |
释义 | flumen.ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river floodc825 streamc875 eaeOE water streamOE flumec1175 fleamc1300 riverc1300 currentc1380 reea1500 ford1563 fluent1598 draught1601 nymph1605 amnic1623 flux1637 nullah1656 R1692 currency1758 silent highway1841 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 141 Ine flum iordan. a1300 Cursor Mundi 1035 Þis flummes four þat þar biginnes, thoru out all oþer contres rinnes. a1300 Magdalena 427 in Horstmann Alteng. Leg. 158 To þe flym Jordan. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 186 At þat ilk flom Richard gaf bataile. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 1406 There bene baptismes thre Off fflvmme, of flavme, of blode. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 450 All into that flume Tha drownit ilkone becaus tha culd not swym. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 247 A deep Fume, which was called the water of Iuno. 2. A mill-tail. Cf. fleam n.2 2. ΚΠ 1855 in H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. 3. U.S., etc. a. An artificial channel for a stream of water to be applied to some industrial use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > channel for conveyance of water water leatOE water lade1224 leat1279 watergang1293 sow1316 trough1398 wissinga1400 lanec1420 waterway1431 water leasow1440 watercoursea1450 fleam1523 lead1541 cut1548 aqueducta1552 lake1559 strand1565 race1570 channel1581 watergauge1597 gout1598 server1610 carriage1669 runnel1669 aquage1706 shoot1707 tewel1725 run1761 penstock1763 hulve1764 way-gang1766 culvert1774 flume1784 shute1790 pentrough1793 raceway1793 water carriage1793 carrier1794 conductor1796 water carrier1827 penchute1875 chute1878 by-cut1883 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs flume1784 log-rollinga1792 drive1835 river-driving1843 river drive1845 sluice-way1851 sacking1860 timber drivea1861 skidding1877 log-running1878 skid road1880 rigging1897 swamping1902 log-drivea1904 high lead1905 high-lining1919 1784 J. Belknap Jrnl. 28 July in Tour to White Mts. (1876) 17 One [stream]..is so narrow as exactly to resemble a flume, and goes by that name. 1798 J. Root Rep. Superior Court & Supreme Court of Errors 1 359 Laid the bottom of the floom to the grist-mill about four feet lower than the saw-mill. 1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 2nd Ser. ii. §6. 126 Wooden flumes, raised on tall tressels, brought water from some reservoir above to the diggings. 1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 865 A curious V shaped wooden aqueduct or flume. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 343/2 Flume, a metal chute used for the distribution of concrete from a placing plant. 1957 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Mar. 52/2 Flume, an inclined trough with running water for transporting logs. 1959 B.S.I. News Nov. 25 Notches, weirs and flumes for flow measurement. b. A deep narrow channel or ravine with a stream running through it. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine cloughc1330 heugha1400 straitc1400 gillc1440 gulfa1533 gull1553 gap1555 coomb1578 gullet1600 nick1606 goyle1617 gully1637 nullah1656 ravine1687 barrancaa1691 kloof1731 ravin1746 water gap1756 gorge1769 arroyo1777 quebrada1787 rambla1789 flume1792 linn1799 cañada1814 gulch1832 cañon1834 canyon1837 khud1837 couloir1855 draw1864 box canyon1869 sitch1888 tangi1901 opena1903 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 52 Two streams..one of which descends in a trench two feet wide, and is called the flume, from the near resemblance which it bears to an artificial flume. 1841 C. T. Jackson Geol. New Hampsh. 97 It is not practicable to walk in the bed of the flume. 1889 J. D. Whitney United States 222 Flume..as applied in the United States, and chiefly in the White Mountains, means a narrow passage or defile between nearly perpendicular rocks, through which runs a stream. c. U.S. slang. to go or be up the flume: to ‘come to grief’, ‘be done for’; to die. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > come to grief misfareOE miswendOE misferec1275 misspeeda1387 miscarryc1387 mischieve?a1400 to catch copper1530 to lose one's seatc1540 mischief1598 to bu(r)st one's boiler1824 to come to grief1850 to come (also go) a mucker1851 to come (fall, get) a cropper1858 mucker1862 to go or be up the flume1865 to come undone1899 to play smash1903 to come to a sticky end1904 to come unstuck1911 1865 Eastern Slope (Washoe, Nevada) 23 Dec. 3/1 The great Stockholder..has in the classic language of the mines, ‘gone up the flume’. 1882 ‘M. Twain’ Stolen White Elephant 97 Well, then, that idea's up the flume. 1888 Longman's Mag. XIII. 48 It's no good wishing—he's gone up the flume. Compounds flume-water; flume-car n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 350/1 Flume car, a car to travel in a flume; wheels rest on the sides of the flume and the water runs a paddle wheel. 1897 B. Harraden Hilda Strafford 59 I wish I hadn't filled up my reservoir so full with flume-water. Draft additions 1993 a. esp. (in Forestry), for the transport of logs or timber. Cf. log flume n. (a) at log n.1 Additions. ΚΠ 1748 Duxbury (Mass.) Rec. (1893) 292 Isaac Partridge being obliged to make and maintain a good floom for term of Twenty years next coming, for the stream to pass through. 1894 J. Nisbet Brown's Forester (ed. 6) II. xi. 250 In California, throughout the Rocky Mountain tracts, enormous quantities of timber are conveyed for immense distances in flumes worked by water power. 1976 S. Conway Logging Pract. xvii. 337 There are some other types of log transportation, such as the chute and the flume, which are no longer or very little used... In a flume, a log rides a sheet of water at speeds up to 100 miles per hour. b. A water-chute used as a ride at a fairground or amusement park; a water-slide. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > other rides wiggle-waggle1825 helter-skelter lighthouse1906 cakewalk1908 flip-flap1908 ghost train1931 tunnel of love1954 log flume1963 razzle1969 flume1978 1972 New Society 16 Nov. 395/2 The 40-acre fantasy of big dipper rides, log flumes and big wheels.] 1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. 6 b/1 There's a flume ride, motorcycle racing course,..Western streets and more. 1985 Punch 16 Oct. 97/1 The ‘Wild Waters’ flume at Richmond-upon-Thames, where rapid transit through a giant convoluted colon into a splashy receptacle may be enjoyed several times over in a 40-minutes session for £2.50. The flume..is a closed waterslide. 1989 Holiday Which? Sept. 162/3 Supervision is particularly important at pools with slides and flumes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). flumev. 1. intransitive. To build a flume or artificial channel for a watercourse. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [verb (transitive)] > supply with channels or pipes pipe1805 flume1855 bypass1886 stand-pipe1895 1855 in H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. 1883 R. F. Burton & V. F. Cameron To Gold Coast II. xvi. 116 The hydraulic system of sluicing and fluming. 2. transitive. To convey (or bring in) down a flume. ΚΠ 1875 I. L. Bird Hawaiian Archipel. viii. 119 The cane is being flumed in with great rapidity. 3. (See quot. 1876.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [verb (transitive)] > lead or extend a watercourse or channel > divert stream > in spec way trench1598 flume1876 1876 Whitney in Encycl. Brit. IV. 701 The rivers..were ‘flumed’—that is, the water was taken out of the natural channel by means of wooden flumes. Derivatives ˈfluming n. also concrete = material composing a flume. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [noun] > laying or building pipes or channels pipage1612 pipe-laying1823 fluming1851 pipe fitting1858 pipelay1974 society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material > for specific constructions wharfing1691 fluming1851 weiring1901 1851 San Francisco Picayune 23 Sept. 2/5 There is another fluming company..that will commence operations this week. 1870 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1869 2 372 [The oldest drifts] can only be worked by bringing water to bear on them by a system of ‘fluming’. 1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 173 The unsightly fluming and other erections which continually meet the eye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1175v.1851 |
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