FLUME meaning: Channel directing water for transport

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word flume:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

flume: Merriam-Webster
flume: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
flume: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
flume: Collins English Dictionary
flume: Vocabulary.com
Flume, flume: Wordnik
flume: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
flume: Wiktionary
flume: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
flume: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
flume: Infoplease Dictionary
Flume, flume: Dictionary.com
flume: Online Etymology Dictionary
Flume (album), Flume (disambiguation), Flume (musician), Flume, The Flume (Alton Towers): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Flume: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
flume: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
flume: Rhymezone
Flume: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
flume: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
flume: FreeDictionary.org
flume: Mnemonic Dictionary
flume: TheFreeDictionary.com
flume: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
flume: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

flume: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

flume: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
flume: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
▸ noun:  An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids, especially to carry materials (logs, mined material, etc) or people (as a water slide), especially (but not always) one where the walls are raised above the surrounding terrain rather than recessed like a ditch.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.

Similar:

gulch, linn, burble, trickle, waterfall, fluting, purling, lavant, lick, leak, more...

Opposite:

ridge, peak, summit, crest, mount

Types:

concrete, wood, steel, plastic, rubber, glass, ceramic, more...

Phrases:

Parshall flume, log flume, venturi flume, Hi This Is Flume, Flume discography, more...

Adjectives:

wooden, long, concrete, large, open, rectangular, small, old, wide, main, annular

Colors:

blue, turquoise, aqua, teal, cyan, more...