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Meanings of waterways in English
Navigable body of water, including but not limited to rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and canals.
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Examples for "waterway"
Examples for "waterway"
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Three container ships crossed the new waterway, state news agency MENA reported.
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The 145-year-old waterway is the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia.
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The waterway is vital to world trade and to Egypt's struggling economy.
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However, it is now a significant part of Ireland's inland waterway walks.
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Another year of quizzing begins with at trip down our greatest waterway.
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There are hundreds of privately owned flying boats now wherever there is navigable water.
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Its great river, the Saskatchewan, carries a navigable water-line to the very base of the Rocky Mountains.
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The lakes afford a navigable water-way which, measured due east and west, aggregates nearly six hundred miles.
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They were then transported on sleighs from the boundary on the Yukon to navigable water on the Porcupine.
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Why were the Churchmen of old, who defined the dioceses, so anxious to find an outlet to navigable water?
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I just thought, well, it appeared to be more of a navigable waterway.
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Here you have both, and close to a navigable waterway.
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The hell, he thought; this wasn't a navigable waterway.
4
The Caledonian Canal is a massive sea-to-sea navigable waterway, connecting the Atlantic Ocean to Inverness and the North Sea.
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And so I thought it likely that a large city, such as Kelsingra must have been, would be built on a navigable waterway.
Usage of waterways in English
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The South China Sea provides important waterways for China's international commercial exchanges.
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But he said good management practices should be extended to all waterways.
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Unacceptable for anyone, particularly a major retailer, to be polluting our waterways.
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The areas were picked as significant waterways next to major dairying areas.
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Can the most expensive environmental project in Australia's history save our waterways?
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Florida water snakes are native to the area and live in waterways.
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De Grey says its drilling programme will not release mercury into waterways.
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Sodium triphosphate worked great, but it also cleaned our waterways of fish.
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There is also concern that plastic pollution harms marine wildlife and waterways.
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Even states whose waterways did not drain into the Mississippi wanted something.
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Long-awaited investments in rail and waterways are still a few years off.
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The complicated maze of waterways and land made me a bit dizzy.
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The rain washed waste, pesticides and bacteria into waterways, prompting health warnings.
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Others channeled occasional waterways ranging from small seasonal streams to rushing rivers.
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It was another of those draining waterways which scored the rock-bound river.
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DOC said operators were maintaining buffer zones around waterways and the coastline.
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Translations for waterways
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Waterways through the time
Waterways across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Rare
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