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WATERWAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A conduit through which water flows
Synonyms:
watercourse; waterway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("waterway" is a kind of...):
way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waterway"):
canal (long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation)
flume (watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs)
headrace (a waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine)
tailrace (a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A navigable body of water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("waterway" is a kind of...):
body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waterway"):
ditch (any small natural waterway)
mare clausum ((closed sea) a navigable body of water under the jurisdiction of a single nation)
mare liberum ((free sea) a navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access)
rapid (a part of a river where the current is very fast)
Instance hyponyms:
Cross-Florida Waterway; Okeechobee Waterway (a waterway used by small boats to travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico through Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee Canal and the Caloosahatchee River)
Inland Passage; Inside Passage (a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska)
