noun
definition
A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
definition
An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.
verb
definition
To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.
Examples of flume in a Sentence
They have some water rides too - their log flume is great fun!
The Princess pressed a button that turned on the pool area including the water flume.
A ten meter long 30cm wide and 30cm high glass walled recirculating hydraulic flume.
In this proposal a series of experiments with graded sediments are detailed which will take place in the tilting flume at HR Wallingford.
Verify the results of the preliminary study by repeating some experiments in a larger flume.
There's an Olympic pool, lakeside diving boards, inflatable water climbing floats, table tennis and fast flume.
The Master Blaster & Rubber Tire Ride -- Both these rides combine to make the longest indoor water flume in Ireland.
The indoor pool with its exciting flume is guaranteed to provide hours of fun whatever the weather.
Splash around in the indoor pool where you can relax in the spa bath or have fun on the water flume.
Land of the Dragons - A part of the park just for kids, featuring children's rides, a three-story treehouse, Ferris wheel, and small flume ride.
Themed rides include the Timber Mountain Log Ride (flume ride), the wooden roller coaster GhostRider, and the Silver Bullet inverted coaster.
Enjoy a three story drop down the side of Wild Rivers Mountain, splashing into the water like a log flume ride.
New rides including the Raging Thunder Log Flume helped, as did the Galaxi roller coaster.
Journey to Atlantis is a log flume style thrill ride that combines visual special effects with steep drops and big splashes.
Thorpe also has a large water park that features a number of water based thrill ride, including the largest log flume in Europe.
You ' ve hardly started - and you haven ' t lived till you ' ve taken on the giant 60m flume at Waterworld.
It was also the last season for The Log Flume 2003 ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE 2003 saw the Tweenies arrive at Alton Towers.
Two tremendous wave pools, bumper boats, a relaxing endless river, the Adventure River with geysers, waterfalls, and waves, and the Flash Flood flume boat ride with wavefront bridge are just a few of the fun watery options.
Maverick is located in the park's Frontier Town section on the former site of the family flume ride, White Water Landing, and the coaster's mild theming and bucking bronco logo fit well with this area of the park.
Cedar Point's Frontier Trail, along the park's northwestern border, is home to the new Shoot the Rapids, a family flume water coaster with a crazy western theme.
It describes the recent modifications to the wave flume which make the apparatus more effective.
First the " rocker," then the " torn," the " flume," and the hydraulic stream were the tools of the miner.
The " flume " enabled him to dry the bed of a stream while he worked over its gravels.
Separating Franconia and Pemigewasset ranges is the romantic Franconia Notch, overlooking which from the upper cliffs of Profile Mountain is a remarkable human profile, The Great Stone Face, immortalized by Nathaniel Hawthorne; here, too, is the Franconia Flume, a narrow upright fissure, 60 ft.