flume

English

Etymology

From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fluːm/

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• Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

flume (plural flumes)

1. A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.

Derived terms

• log flume
• up the flume

 

Translations

ravine or gorge, usually with water

• Finnish: kuru (fi)
• Galician: corgo (gl) m

open channel

• Czech: žlab (cs) m
• Finnish: kanava (fi) (channel); kouru (fi), ränni (fi) (trough), uittoränni
• French: flume (fr) m
• Galician: canle (gl) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Fluder (de) n

Verb

flume (third-person singular simple present flumes, present participle fluming, simple past and past participle flumed)

1. (transitive) To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.

to transport logs on water

• Czech: plavit (cs) impf, splavit pf

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflu.me/

Noun

flume m (plural flumes)

1. Alternative form of frume

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• flúmen

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese flume, frume (“river”), from Latin flūmen (“river”), from fluere (“to flow”).

Cognate with English flume, Italian fiume and Occitan flume.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈflũ.mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈflũ.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈflu.me/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈflu.mɨ/

• Hyphenation: flu‧me

Noun

flume m (plural flumes)

1. (obsolete or poetic) river

   Synonym: rio