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# culvert

noun (a culvert, culverts)

«culvert» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A culvert is a tunnel or large pipe that carries a stream or rainwater under a road, railway or path. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culvert/#m1)

### In the lessons

In geography and everyday life, culverts let water pass under roads so they do not flood. Safety: never play in or near a culvert; after rain the water can rise very fast and pull a person in. Phrases: storm culvert, under the road through a culvert.

### Examples

- The stream flows through a culvert under the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culvert/#x1)
- After the storm, the culvert was full of rushing water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culvert/#x2)
- Stay away from culverts when it rains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culvert/#x3)
- Leaves blocked the culvert and the road flooded. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culvert/#x4)
- Workers cleared the rubbish from the culvert. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culvert/#x5)
- The ducks swam out of the culvert. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culvert/#x6)

### Note

Countable: a culvert, culverts. Pronounced KUL-vert. Similar: drain, pipe, tunnel. A small bridge over a stream is not a culvert; a culvert is underneath.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «culvert» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culvert/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«culvert» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/culvert.html) on Mova free.