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Calculus
noun · 78% connection
Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages conn…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Croton bug
unknown · 78% connection
A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Economizer
noun · 78% connection
Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Efferent
adjective · 78% connection
Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Eke
verb · 78% connection
To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Feed
verb · 78% connection
To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Flume
noun · 78% connection
A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Full
noun · 78% connection
To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Gristmill
noun · 78% connection
A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Head
noun · 78% connection
The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Hydrometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Medium
noun · 78% connection
A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Meerschaum
noun · 78% connection
A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Mill
noun · 78% connection
A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powd…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Milldam
noun · 78% connection
A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Milling
noun · 78% connection
The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge u…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Pipe layer
unknown · 78% connection
One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
Pipe laying
unknown · 78% connection
The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: supply, water, specifically, collected, reservoirs.
