FLUME
What does "FLUME" mean?
An artificial channel that carries water, or a narrow gorge with a stream running through it.
Meanings
- A constructed channel or chute that carries water, often to power machinery or float logs. Loggers sent timber rushing down the flume to the mill below.
- A deep narrow ravine or gorge with a stream flowing through it. The trail climbs beside a flume carved into the granite.
- A water-based amusement ride in which boats slide down a chute. We got soaked on the log flume at the fair. informal
Word origin
From Old French 'flum', meaning a river or stream, from Latin 'flumen' (river), itself from 'fluere', to flow.
Remember it
FLUME sounds like 'flu' plus 'me' - or picture water 'fluming' down a chute, all rush and spray.
A little poem
Granite holds the cold-
the stream remembers a sea
it has not reached yet.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told my engineer friend I loved the log flume at the fair. He started explaining hydraulic head loss. The romance flumed away.
What it teaches
Give water one narrow path and it will carry whatever you ask; force is just direction plus a channel.
Quick facts
What does FLUME mean?
An artificial channel that carries water, or a narrow gorge with a stream running through it.
Is FLUME a valid word?
Yes — FLUME is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FLUME?
FLUME has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FLUME come from?
From Old French 'flum', meaning a river or stream, from Latin 'flumen' (river), itself from 'fluere', to flow.
What can FLUME teach us?
Give water one narrow path and it will carry whatever you ask; force is just direction plus a channel.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.