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Definition of culvert in English: culvertnoun ˈkʌlvətˈkəlvərt A tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railway. Example sentencesExamples - These criminal acts will retard progress and push up costs of building the road as the demolished culverts will have to be replaced.
- The South Fork of the Elkhorn River goes under the road in a culvert.
- The project also required construction of a 29.5-foot fill over an old concrete box culvert.
- What appears to be the problem to us is the size of a culvert underneath the road into the ornamental pond.
- A culvert has also been opened up below one set of steps and all it would take is for one child to trip and fall head first into it.
- They also have to cut several miles of drain, installing several large culverts along the system.
- There are also plans to dig a culvert to carry water if the drainage ditch is full but he doubted there was enough room to dig one within the width of the road.
- Aggravating the problems is a pair of culverts through Provincial Road 205, which have been set at the wrong level.
- According to the 1996 Highway Road Humps Regulations they must not be built on or within 25 metres of bridges, subways, culverts or tunnels.
- A nearby culvert, meant to carry away the sewage, is totally damaged.
- Earth pressure distribution around concrete box culverts has been the subject of a few studies.
- Variables considered in the analysis were culvert size, location, and wall thickness.
- The figure also shows a little tensile stress at the roof center of larger culverts.
- A culvert stabilized with snow was the first structure tested for small streams.
- However, the size and weight of concrete box culverts can make transportation and handling a problem.
- The tanks, roads, culverts and lagoon opening have all suffered through the lack of maintenance.
- He directed the officials to complete the construction of culverts and link roads and ensure the proper drinking water supply.
- It is asphalted and the gradient runs south to north up to the village temple, except near the village pond where a culvert has raised the road surface, upsetting the natural gradient.
- Thus, culverts stabilized with snow are not needed when the stream is already frozen solid.
- Drivers often don't even realize when they cross streams, nor that the culverts built to carry those streams might pose problems to endangered salmon and trout species.
Synonyms channel, conduit, watercourse, trough drain, gutter
verbˈkʌlvətˈkəlvərt [with object]Channel (a stream or drain) through a culvert. we have asked for the river to be culverted Example sentencesExamples - Or it might have happened later, when the creek was culverted and the woods cut down to make way for subdivisions and shopping malls.
- Ironically, all that culverting work bounced back in his face, literally, for when we did have a heavy storm, the overflow went the other way and flushed several thousand pounds' worth of rainbow trout into the beck.
- Where I grew up in Ohio, we saw crawdads, or crayfish, in the culverted, sewage-scented ‘creeks’ and would no sooner eat one than we would kitty litter.
- He made his report following a motion that the stream be culverted.
- The plans include culverting part of Willowbeck and the agency has now withdrawn its objection, saying it is satisfied the development ‘will not have a significant effect on flooding in Northallerton’.
- The river is now culverted beneath the largely Victorian town.
- She has happy recollections of childhood life in the area and the freedom to roam before rivers were culverted and open land was developed.
- Talking to the engineers, environmentalists and politicians responsible, I realised that here, where council engineers want to culvert more of it, we are ten years behind the times.
- But since the city wants to use water diverted from Bradford Beck - which is culverted under the city centre - experts have been working on ways of making sure the river's quality is up to scratch.
- And during the next 12 months up to six are likely to be culverted and filled in.
- The flood would not have occurred if the stream had not been culverted or if a culvert of sufficient size had been installed.
- I have agreed details to culverting streams, adjacent to the M4 motorway, to allow the canal to be extended over these watercourses.
- Of course, if I got my planning permission, I'd have to divert yon beck and culvert it away from your place.
- Sprawl and malls are filling in the vacant lots and woodlands where we used to play; rivers and streams are culverted, channelized, and barren; and the coasts, lakesides, and mountains are spotted with trophy homes and locked gates.
Origin Late 18th century: of unknown origin. Definition of culvert in US English: culvertnounˈkəlvərtˈkəlvərt A tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railroad. Example sentencesExamples - Earth pressure distribution around concrete box culverts has been the subject of a few studies.
- The tanks, roads, culverts and lagoon opening have all suffered through the lack of maintenance.
- The South Fork of the Elkhorn River goes under the road in a culvert.
- Thus, culverts stabilized with snow are not needed when the stream is already frozen solid.
- These criminal acts will retard progress and push up costs of building the road as the demolished culverts will have to be replaced.
- What appears to be the problem to us is the size of a culvert underneath the road into the ornamental pond.
- Variables considered in the analysis were culvert size, location, and wall thickness.
- Aggravating the problems is a pair of culverts through Provincial Road 205, which have been set at the wrong level.
- However, the size and weight of concrete box culverts can make transportation and handling a problem.
- They also have to cut several miles of drain, installing several large culverts along the system.
- According to the 1996 Highway Road Humps Regulations they must not be built on or within 25 metres of bridges, subways, culverts or tunnels.
- Drivers often don't even realize when they cross streams, nor that the culverts built to carry those streams might pose problems to endangered salmon and trout species.
- The project also required construction of a 29.5-foot fill over an old concrete box culvert.
- A culvert stabilized with snow was the first structure tested for small streams.
- A culvert has also been opened up below one set of steps and all it would take is for one child to trip and fall head first into it.
- He directed the officials to complete the construction of culverts and link roads and ensure the proper drinking water supply.
- There are also plans to dig a culvert to carry water if the drainage ditch is full but he doubted there was enough room to dig one within the width of the road.
- It is asphalted and the gradient runs south to north up to the village temple, except near the village pond where a culvert has raised the road surface, upsetting the natural gradient.
- The figure also shows a little tensile stress at the roof center of larger culverts.
- A nearby culvert, meant to carry away the sewage, is totally damaged.
Synonyms channel, conduit, watercourse, trough
verbˈkəlvərtˈkəlvərt [with object]Channel (a stream or drain) through a culvert. we have asked for the river to be culverted Example sentencesExamples - He made his report following a motion that the stream be culverted.
- And during the next 12 months up to six are likely to be culverted and filled in.
- Or it might have happened later, when the creek was culverted and the woods cut down to make way for subdivisions and shopping malls.
- Where I grew up in Ohio, we saw crawdads, or crayfish, in the culverted, sewage-scented ‘creeks’ and would no sooner eat one than we would kitty litter.
- But since the city wants to use water diverted from Bradford Beck - which is culverted under the city centre - experts have been working on ways of making sure the river's quality is up to scratch.
- She has happy recollections of childhood life in the area and the freedom to roam before rivers were culverted and open land was developed.
- The river is now culverted beneath the largely Victorian town.
- The flood would not have occurred if the stream had not been culverted or if a culvert of sufficient size had been installed.
- Talking to the engineers, environmentalists and politicians responsible, I realised that here, where council engineers want to culvert more of it, we are ten years behind the times.
- The plans include culverting part of Willowbeck and the agency has now withdrawn its objection, saying it is satisfied the development ‘will not have a significant effect on flooding in Northallerton’.
- I have agreed details to culverting streams, adjacent to the M4 motorway, to allow the canal to be extended over these watercourses.
- Of course, if I got my planning permission, I'd have to divert yon beck and culvert it away from your place.
- Sprawl and malls are filling in the vacant lots and woodlands where we used to play; rivers and streams are culverted, channelized, and barren; and the coasts, lakesides, and mountains are spotted with trophy homes and locked gates.
- Ironically, all that culverting work bounced back in his face, literally, for when we did have a heavy storm, the overflow went the other way and flushed several thousand pounds' worth of rainbow trout into the beck.
Origin Late 18th century: of unknown origin. |