flume

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /fluːm/ Rhymes: -uːm === Noun === flume (plural flumes) A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids, especially to carry materials (logs, mined material, etc) or people (as a water slide), especially (but not always) one where the walls are raised above the surrounding terrain rather than recessed like a ditch. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === flume (third-person singular simple present flumes, present participle fluming, simple past and past participle flumed) (transitive) To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough. ==== Translations ==== == Old Galician-Portuguese == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈflu.me/ === Noun === flume m (plural flumes) 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 === Hyphenation: flu‧me === Noun === flume m (plural flumes) (obsolete or poetic) river Synonym: rio === Further reading === “flume”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “flume”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026