relift
English
Etymology
re- + lift
Verb
relift (third-person singular simple present relifts, present participle relifting, simple past and past participle relifted)
- To lift something again.
Adjective
relift (not comparable)
- (hydraulic engineering) Pertaining to a pumping system that raises the level of water that is flowing in a waterway.
- 1962, George A. Lineer, Report on Proposed Westplains Water Storage District:
- A relift pump would then raise the water to another concrete-lined canal on compacted fill.
- 1985, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Lake Andes-Wagner Unit:
- The purpose of this wasteway is to provide for emergency waste in the canal in case of unscheduled shutdown of the relift pumping plant.
- 1988, Umatilla Basin Project, Planning Report: Environmental Impact Statement:
- The proposed Stanfield canal, Stanfield relift pump, and Stanfield relift canal and siphon features were not surveyed at this time because they cross irrigated croplands.
- 2004, Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science - Volume 58, page 28:
- Comparison of benefit/cost ratios of well and relift systems for tailwater recovery system in northeast Arkansas.
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Anagrams
- filter, filtre, firtle, lifter, trifle