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How to pronounce waterway in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms watercourse
Type of way
Has types headrace, canal, tailrace, flume
Type Words
Type of body of water, water
Has types rapid, ditch, mare liberum, mare clausum

Examples of waterway

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That work, however, destroyed the small waterway that is central to the dispute.
From the post-gazette.com
Nitrogen dissolves in water and can reach a waterway in the runoff after a rain.
From the delawareonline.com
Make sure the water seeps into the ground, not into the storm drain or waterway.
From the thenewstribune.com
He helped move part of a dredge that was left in the waterway earlier this year.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Changes in the annual event's format allowed for plenty of waterway shenanigans.
From the courier-journal.com
Hardly a waterway exists, in fact, that is not or has not been blocked by a dam.
From the economist.com
Riverbeds are typically defined as the area between the cut banks of a waterway.
From the chron.com
The largest First Nations group near the St. Lawrence waterway are the Iroquois.
From the en.wikipedia.org
If they die or lose fitness, that waterway would not be targeted for restoration.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • A navigable body of water
  • Watercourse: a conduit through which water flows
  • A waterway is any navigable body of water. Waterways are the cheapest mode of transport since it's fuel efficient. These include rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and canals. ...
  • (The Waterways) The Waterways is housing estate in North Oxford, England. It is west of the Oxford Canal and east of the Cherwell Valley railway line. To the west beyond the railway line are Port Meadow and the River Thames. The estate is linked to central Oxford via Walton Well Road to the south.
  • (Waterways) This entry gives the total length of navigable rivers, canals, and other inland bodies of water.
  • (Waterways) 8,575 km consisting of the Niger and Benue rivers and smaller rivers and creeks
  • River, canal, lake or other stretch of water that by natural or man-made features is suitable for navigation.
  • Any physically defined water flowpath such as a river, gully, creek, tributary, estuary or stream, that captures runoff and conveys it towards an outlet or terminus (e.g. the ocean or a dam), (see also channel).
  • A way or channel for water or the movement of water