Abandoned (imp. & p. p.) of Abandon |
Abandoned (a.) Forsaken, deserted. |
Abandoned (a.) Self-abandoned, or given up to vice |
Backwater (n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar. |
Backwater (n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction. |
Backwater (n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer. |
Branch (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. |
Branch (n.) Any division extending like a branch |
Branch (n.) Any member or part of a body or system |
Branch (n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance |
Branch (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock |
Branch (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters. |
Branch (a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc. |
Branch (v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches |
Branch (v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision. |
Branch (v. t.) To divide as into branches |
Branch (v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. |
Branch pilot () A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation. |
Channel (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run. |
Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels. |
Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands |
Channel (n.) That through which anything passes |
Channel (n.) A gutter |
Channel (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks. |
Channel (v. t.) To form a channel in |
Channel (v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel. |
Dead (a.) Deprived of life |
Dead (a.) Destitute of life |
Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality |
Dead (a.) Still as death |
Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound |
Dead (a.) Unproductive |
Dead (a.) Lacking spirit |
Dead (a.) Monotonous or unvaried |
Dead (a.) Sure as death |
Dead (a.) Bringing death |
Dead (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality |
Dead (a.) Flat |
Dead (a.) Not brilliant |
Dead (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen |
Dead (a.) Not imparting motion or power |
Dead (adv.) To a degree resembling death |
Dead (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time |
Dead (n.) One who is dead |
Dead (v. t.) To make dead |
Dead (v. i.) To die |
Dead beat () See Beat, n., 7. |
Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard |
Dead-hearted (a.) Having a dull, faint heart |
Dead-pay (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. |
flow stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
dead-man's float prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
dead reckoning | navigation without the aid of celestial observations |
Office of the Dead | an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church |
distribution channel channel | a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors, possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores |
Lake Trasimenus Battle of Lake Trasimenus | a battle in BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius |
lesser scaup lesser scaup duck lake duck Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
channel catfish channel cat Ictalurus punctatus | freshwater food fish common throughout central United States |
blue catfish blue cat blue channel catfish blue channel cat | a large catfish of the Mississippi valley |
landlocked salmon lake salmon | Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada |
lake trout salmon trout Salvelinus namaycush | large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States |
lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis | found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska |
cisco lake herring Coregonus artedi | important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America |
red drum channel bass redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
abandoned ship derelict | a ship abandoned on the high seas |
arm branch limb | any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm, the arm of the record player, an arm of the sea, a branch of the sewer |
blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
branch line spur track spur | a railway line connected to a trunk line |
channel | a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through, the fields were crossed with irrigation channels, gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street |
channel television channel TV channel | a television station and its programs, a satellite TV channel, surfing through the channels, they offer more than one hundred channels |
chunnel Channel Tunnel | the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
cul cul de sac dead end | a passage with access only at one end |
dead-air space | an unventilated area where no air circulates |
dead axle | an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it |
dead load | a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself |
lake dwelling pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake, specifically in prehistoric villages |
Lake Mead | the largest reservoir in the United States, located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, the center of a recreational area |
Lake Powell | the second largest reservoir in the United States, located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River |
Lake Volta | the Volta river in southeastern has been dammed to create one of the world's largest man-made lakes |
morgue mortuary dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
oxbow | a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U, its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox |
reservoir artificial lake man-made lake | lake used to store water for community use |
dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
dead center dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
dead hand dead hand of the past mortmain | the oppressive influence of past events or decisions |
body dead body | a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person, they found the body in the lake |
duct epithelial duct canal channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
bloodstream blood stream | the blood flowing through the circulatory system |
stream of consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience |
guess guesswork guessing shot dead reckoning | an estimate based on little or no information |
dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
hydrology | the branch of geology that studies water on the earth and in the atmosphere: its distribution and uses and conservation |
channel transmission channel | a path over which electrical signals can pass, a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company |
channel communication channel line | (often plural) a means of communication or access, it must go through official channels, lines of communication were set up between the two firms |
back channel | an alternative to the regular channels of communication that is used when agreements must be made secretly (especially in diplomacy or government), they negotiated via a back channel |
dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
stream of consciousness | a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy |
Dead Sea scrolls | (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late s, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus |
dead letter dead mail | mail that can neither be delivered nor returned |
funeral march dead march | a slow march to be played for funeral processions |