SEWER Synonyms
There are 8 hypernyms of the word sewer. (close relations)
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| gutter | nounn | |||||
noun • a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater • misfortune resulting in lost effort or money • a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) • a tool for gutting fish verb • burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker • flow in small streams • wear or cut gutters into • provide with gutters | ||||||
| sewerage | nounn | |||||
noun • waste matter carried away in sewers or drains • a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | ||||||
| aqueduct | nounn | |||||
noun • a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley | ||||||
| channel | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • a path over which electrical signals can pass • a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through • a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) • a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels • (often plural) a means of communication or access • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • a television station and its programs • a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors verb • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission • direct the flow of • send from one person or place to another | ||||||
| conduit | nounn | |||||
noun • a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | ||||||
| culvert | nounn | |||||
noun • a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | ||||||
| drain | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it • tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material • a pipe through which liquid is carried away • a gradual depletion of energy or resources verb • flow off gradually • deplete of resources • empty of liquid; drain the liquid from • make weak | ||||||
| pipe | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco • a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. • a hollow cylindrical shape • a tubular wind instrument • the flues and stops on a pipe organ verb • utter a shrill cry • transport by pipeline • play on a pipe • trim with piping | ||||||
| pipeline | nounn | |||||
noun • gossip spread by spoken communication • a pipe used to transport liquids or gases | ||||||
| trench | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth • a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor • any long ditch cut in the ground verb • impinge or infringe upon • fortify by surrounding with trenches • cut or carve deeply into • set, plant, or bury in a trench • cut a trench in, as for drainage • dig a trench or trenches | ||||||
| waste pipe | nounn | |||||
noun • a pipe through which liquid is carried away | ||||||
| cloaca | nounn | |||||
noun • (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not other mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open • a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | ||||||
| seamster | nounn | |||||
noun • a person whose occupation is making and altering garments | ||||||
| seamstress | nounn | |||||
noun • someone who makes or mends dresses | ||||||
| sempstress | nounn | |||||
noun • someone who makes or mends dresses | ||||||
| tailor | nounn | |||||
noun • a person whose occupation is making and altering garments verb • adjust to a specific need or market • style and tailor in a certain fashion • create (clothes) with cloth | ||||||
| toilet | nounn | |||||
noun • a room or building equipped with one or more toilets • a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination • misfortune resulting in lost effort or money • the act of dressing and preparing yourself | ||||||
| sempster | adverb, nounadv, n | |||||
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