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Перевод: aqueduct

[существительное]
акведук ; канал ; труба ; водопровод ; проход

Тезаурус:

1. At the north end of the aqueduct is the Leawood Pumping Station, where a beam engine installed in 1849 pumped water from the river to the canal for nearly a hundred years.
2. South-west of the town, Barton Swing Aqueduct, built in 1894, replaced the masonry aqueduct built by James Brindley ( q.v. ) to carry the Bridgewater Canal over the Irwell valley.
3. At Congleton the canal is carried over a road at the south-east side of the town by a cast-iron aqueduct, built around 1835, on curving masonry abutments.
4. Some way below the garden a man stood quietly washing himself in the hot water from the spring; it was channelled down there in a homemade aqueduct of halved bamboo stalks resting on forked twigs.
5. Crossing the Ouse over the Cosgrove Aqueduct, the canal climbs to Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire, now the home of the National Waterways Museum, through Blisworth Tunnel and more locks; then it leaves the Grand Junction system at Norton, climbing at Watford to the summit level plateau, 413.5 feet above sea level, before dropping suddenly at Foxton.
6. Breeders' Cup Turf, Aqueduct, 2 November 1985
7. Chirk Aqueduct, built in 1796-;1801 to carry the Ellesmere Canal across the River Ceirog, is still one of the fine pieces of engineering work carried out by Thomas Telford ( q.v. )-; It has ten arches each of forty foot span, and the masonry structure supports a cast-iron trough carrying the canal.
8. Although not so spectacular as his famous aqueduct at Pont Cysyllte ( q.v.),
9. The enamoured Mr Thompson made the most elaborate water gardens to complement the house, with an aqueduct, canals, fountains and cascades.
10. And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa, clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct.
11. Steve Cauthen had partnered Pebbles in her first three races of the season but Pat Eddery had ridden her with sublime confidence in the Champion Stakes when Cauthen was claimed for Slip Anchor, and it was Eddery who had the mount at Aqueduct.
12. In her favour, though, was the configuration of the Aqueduct track: at a little over seven furlongs round it is very tight, and demands the pace to lie in a handy position, the balance to negotiate the turns, and the acceleration to dominate the race in the home straight.