Aqueduct vs Sewer - What's the difference?
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An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially in regards to ancient aqueducts.
A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
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One who sews.
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As nouns the difference between aqueduct and sewer
is that aqueduct is an artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another while sewer is a pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.aqueduct
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia aqueduct)sewer
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia sewer) (en noun)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) asseour, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer , holding his white rod of office.
- His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer , or waiter.
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- the apple-leaf sewer , Phoxopteris nubeculana