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Definition: COULEE |
COULEENoun1. A stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a cañon, which has precipitous sides. 2. A stream |
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Mining | A. A term applied in the Western United States to a small stream, often intermittent. Also, the bed of such a stream when dry b. A term applied in the Northwestern United States to a dry or intermittent stream valley, gulch, or wash of considerable extent; esp. a long, steep-walled, trenchlike gorge or valley representing an abandoned overflow channel that temporarily carried meltwater from an ice sheet, e.g., the Grand Coulee (formerly occupied by the Columbia River) in Washington State c. A small valley or a low-lying area. Etymol: French coulee, flow or rush of a torrent. Pron: koo-lee. Syn:coulie d. A tonguelike mass of debris moved by solifluction (Monkhouse, 1965, p. 81) e.g., the Grand Coulee (formerly occupied by the Columbia River) in Washington State. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Stream, course, flux, flow, profluence; effluence. (egress); defluxion; flowing. Verb: current, tide, race, coulee. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Arial view of Moses Coulee in Grant County, Washington. Credit: Brent Cunderla. |  | Hungate Trail in Moses Coulee, Grant County, Washington. Credit: Brent Cunderla. |
 | Petrified Canyon in Moses Coulee, Grant County, Washington. Credit: Neal Hedges. |  | Washington, Coulee City, Grant County. Road which crosses the highway and leads from Coulee city. Boom construction town about four years old. Note labor temple on hill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Approaching main street of boom construction town, about four years old. Looking right from highway. Washington, Coulee City, Grant County. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Grand Coulee Dam, Wash. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coulee Dam, Wash. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Panorama, Coulee Dam. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dry falls, Grand Coulee, Wash., 4-30-'36. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | At the same time, we are producing power at Grand Coulee and at Bonneville which played a mighty part in winning the war and which will found a great peacetime industry in the Northwest. |
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1. Coulee, ND |
Expressions using "COULEE": Coulee City ♦ Coulee Dam ♦ Grand Coulee ♦ Sand Coulee. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "COULEE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Prroskë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Корито На Пресъхнала ека, "ол (Coomb, Vale), "ере (Spruit), Изстинала Лава. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Ravine, ravin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlucht (Canyon, gores, gorge, gulch, gully, notch, ravine), Klamm (clammy, cold and damp, flume, gorge, numb, ravine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | 'αθειά Φάραγξ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Mederszurdok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Colata (casting, flow), burrone (abyss, Canyon, chasm, gorge, gulch, gulf, gully, precipice, ravine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouleecay ravina (canyon, col, couloir, donga, flume, gulch, gully, hollow, kloof, nullah, ravine), barranco profundo, barranco (abyss, donga, groove, precipice, ravine, rut). (various references) глубокий овраг. (various references) potok lave, duboka jaruga. (various references) hondonada (hollow), barranco (gorge, gulch, ravine), abismo (abysm, abyss, chasm, cleft, couloir, crevice, deepness, gulf, hell, pit, precipice, Slough, steep). (various references) ravin (Chine, gap, gorge, gully, Linn, ravine), lavaström. (various references) глибокий яр (gully), затверділий потік лави. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COULEE": coulees. (additional references) | |
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"COULEE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cauley, cauly, Cluley, Codlea, cokle, colea, colume, Colutea, Cooeee, Coogee, Coole, coolee, Coquelin, couble, Couhe, coulde, coule, couler, couleur, coulis, coullege, coulpe, coulure, cowle, Cugullere, culy, Ecofuel, Goulue, hcmodule, koo-ee, Occulobe, Scoule. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "COULEE" (pronounced kuw"lē) |
| 4 | k uw" l ē | coolly. |
| 3 | -uw" l ē | cruelly, duly, lazuli, newly, truly, unduly, unruly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-o-u" | |
-2 letters: clue, cole, luce. | |
-3 letters: cee, cel, col, cue, ecu, eel, lee, leu, ole. | |
-4 letters: el, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-o-u" | |
+1 letter: coulees, eclogue. | |
+2 letters: coleuses, decouple, eclogues, molecule, nucleole, opercule, opulence, recouple. | |
+3 letters: beclouded, cellulose, colleague, counseled, counselee, decalogue, decoupled, decouples, eloquence, enclosure, fluoresce, lecherous, leukocyte, molecules, nucleoles, opercules, opulences, recoupled, recouples, unwelcome, urceolate, ureotelic. | |
+4 letters: celluloses, colleagues, columellae, confluence, corpulence, coulometer, counselees, counselled, couplement, cuddlesome, cuttlebone, decalogues, decoloured, edulcorate, eloquences, enclosures, fluoresced, fluorescer, fluoresces, houseclean, isoleucine, leukocytes, leukopenic, nucleoside, nucleosome, nucleotide, operculate, opulencies, pseudocoel, recoupable, sourceless, subcollege, telecourse, uncoalesce, unenclosed. | |
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