| 单词 | culvert |
| 释义 | culvert (once / 10610 pages) n A culvert is a drain — but not of the kinds that drain your bathtub or empties your bank account. A culvert is any kind of channel or tunnel that directs unwanted water away from roads and other corridors of travel. A culvert is typically built underground to prevent inconveniently located streams and rain runoff from flooding roads, highways, streets, and railroads. Culvert can also be used as a verb: if water pools in your driveway and then seeps into the foundation of your house, soaking the brand-new carpet in the basement that you thought you’d just waterproofed, you might wonder why the builders didn’t culvert that underground stream. WORD FAMILYculvert: culverts USAGE EXAMPLESIt ran across the roadway into a ditch and struck a concrete culvert. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) Police say Zeta likely ran into a culvert and then got lost in the drain system before reaching the irrigation grate. Washington Times(Dec 17, 2016) The statement says soldiers will execute complex construction projects in austere environments with a focus on repairing roads and runways, base maintenance and culvert installation. Washington Times(Dec 13, 2016) n a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway Hyper drain, drainpipe, waste pipe a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
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