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Definition of ciar in Spanish English dictionary
- backwater
- The water held back by a dam or other obstruction
- A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
- A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc
It's a volume for those who delight in exploring the backwaters of nineteenth-century opera.
- To row or paddle a backwater stroke
- To row in reverse, to slow or stop a boat, or to move the boat backwards
- Water backed up or retarded in its course as compared with its normal or natural condition of flow In stream gaging, a rise in stage produced by a temporary obstruction such as ice or weeds, or by the flooding of the stream below The difference between the observed stage and that indicated by the stage-discharge relation, isreported as backwater
- A backwater is a place that is isolated. a quiet rural backwater
- a section of water with an elevation that is increased above normal because of a condition downstream (such as a flood or an ice jam) or because of stream-width contraction beneath a bridge)
- An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction
- Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current, or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar
- (1) A small, generally shallow body of water attached to the main channel, with little or no current of its own, or (2) A condition in subcritical flow where the water surface elevation is raised by downstream flow impediments
- To vacillate on a long-held position
- to place a culvert or use a weir such that there will always be some depth of water within the culvert
- Shallow,slow-moving water associated with a river but outside the river's main channel
- disapproval If you refer to a place or institution as a backwater, you think it is not developing properly because it is isolated from ideas and events in other places and institutions. Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world
- Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer
- any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos