flowage
Liquid in motion
Flowage refers to the act or process of flowing, or the state of having flowed.
In legal and technical contexts, it often describes the flooding of land by water backed up behind a dam: The utility company acquired flowage rights before constructing the reservoir.
A flowage can also be the body of water created by such damming—essentially a shallow artificial lake.
Drainage area boundary
- catchmentArea collecting water runoff
- basinConcave water receptacle
- runoffExcess water drainage
- drainageLiquid removal system
streamflow · discharge · precipitation · infiltration · percolation · groundwater · sedimentation · erosion
Large water storage basin
- pondSmall still body
- damWater-holding barrier
- millpondDammed water powering machinery
- backwaterStagnant side channel
pool · slack · retention · embankment · spillway · sluice · weir · tailwater
Directed flow of charge
- driftGradual movement, no direction
- streamingReal-time digital delivery
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- coursingMoving swiftly through
gliding · eddying · swirling · channeling · seepage · trickling · cascade · ripple
Overwhelming surge of water
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- submersionBeing entirely underwater
- swampingOverwhelming with excess
- surgeSudden powerful increase
waterlogged · saturated · engulfment · floodplain · spillover · backwater · highwater · crest
watershed
Drainage area boundary
drainage · streamflow · discharge · precipitation · infiltration · percolation · groundwater · sedimentation · erosion · fluvial
reservoir
Large water storage basin
backwater · pool · slack · retention · embankment · spillway · sluice · weir · tailwater · lake
current
Directed flow of charge
- driftGradual movement, no direction
- streamingReal-time digital delivery
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
coursing · gliding · eddying · swirling · channeling · seepage · trickling · cascade · ripple · undulation
inundation
Overwhelming surge of water
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- submersionBeing entirely underwater
- swampingOverwhelming with excess
surge · waterlogged · saturated · engulfment · floodplain · spillover · backwater · highwater · crest · breach
flowagestagnation
Absence of flow or progress
stillness · stasis · stagnancy · immobility · motionlessness
flow, flood, flower, flowing, overflow, flowering, floods, flows, flowed