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# culvert

«culvert» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tunnel or large pipe that carries a stream or rainwater…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a culvert, culverts)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### In the corpora

- [Keep away from storm drains, ditches and culverts, because fast water can sweep a child into a drain pipe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «culvert» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/culvert/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.