AQUEDUCT


Meaning of AQUEDUCT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

build

If they can build aqueducts you'd think they could engineer a wallet to keep their money in.

La Reine Pedauque is credited with building the aqueduct which supplied Toulouse with water.

The city had built a great water-supply aqueduct to the Croton River and was imagining its future subway system.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A miniature aqueduct led water from the spring into a well at the garth's centre.

After another island with half blocked off by Hamstead Wharf there are two aqueducts.

She is associated with a bridge, a subterranean aqueduct and a magic distaff, one of the symbols of Athene.

The city had built a great water-supply aqueduct to the Croton River and was imagining its future subway system.

The water, carried in pressure aqueducts and siphons, could arrive under its own power.

Their social organization resulted in the building of bridges, roads, and aqueducts that still stand.

This is a comparatively short section, in a beautiful setting, of an original aqueduct 25 miles long.

To their credit, they floodlight the aqueduct each night, such is its splendour.

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