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单词 flume
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flumen.

Brit. /fluːm/, U.S. /flum/
Forms: Middle English–1500s flum, Middle English Orm. flumm, (Middle English flun), Middle English flym, Middle English flumme, Middle English–1500s flom(e, Middle English flomme, Middle English floum, 1700s–1800s floom, Middle English– flume. See also fleam n.1
Etymology: < Old French flum, flun = Provençal flum, Italian fiume < Latin flūmen river, < fluĕre to flow.
1. A stream, a river; also, water. Obsolete.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.).
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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.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /fluːm/, U.S. /flum/
Etymology: < flume n.
1. intransitive. To build a flume or artificial channel for a watercourse.
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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.
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1875 I. L. Bird Hawaiian Archipel. viii. 119 The cane is being flumed in with great rapidity.
3. (See quot. 1876.)
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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.
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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).
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