Wash, Gully, Arroyo, Ditch
Wash, Gully, Arroyo, Ditch
Wash:
CleaningA wash is the act of cleaning: I wash my hands in soapy water.
Painting
A wash is a light covering of watercolor on a painting. When painting three-dimensional models, they can be used to add shading.
Geography
A wash, also known as an arroyo, is a small river or stream. Typically (at least in rural parts of the central United States, and the especially the deserts of the Southwest) the term wash is used to reference a stream that only carries water when there is rain, and usually dries quickly. The term does not refer to a section of land that gets wet during heavy rains, which is a flood plain.The Wash is a large estuary on the east coast of England
EqualityThere is a common American phrase of, 'it's a wash'. This means the process of coming to be on equal footing with another party. If person A gives person B one dollar at the same time that person B gives person A a dollar, 'it's a wash'.
BrewingA synonym for mash, a mixture of sugar and/or other carbohydrates (such as grains, corn, potatoes, etc), water, and yeast. The resulting mixture is fermented and then usually distilled to make vodka, whiskey, or rum.
Mechanics
Engine Wash or Propeller Wash, a term for the disruption of air or water caused by the movements of the engine, usually of a large vessel.
Television
Hoban "Wash" Washburne is a major character on the television series Firefly.
Gully:
Gully in El Paso County, Colorado, USA.A gully is a landform created by running water eroding sharply into a hillside. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys, but are metres to tens of metres in height and width.Gullying, or gully erosion, is the process by which gullies are formed. Hillsides are more prone to gullying when they are cleared of forest or grazed, where eroded soil is easily carried by the flowing water after being disloged from the ground, and when rainfall falls during short, intense storms as during thunderstorms. Gullies reduce the productivity of farmland where they incise into the land, and produce sediment that may clog downstream waterbodies. Because of this, much effort is invested into the study of gullies within the scope of geomorphology, in the prevention of gully erosion, and in restoration of gullied landscapes.
EtymologyThe earliest usage of the term is from 1657. It originates from the French word goulet, a diminutive form of goule which means throat. It is possible that the term was derived from a type of knife at the time, a gully-knife, because hills that have gullies look as if they are cut open with a sharp knife.
Arroyo:
Arroyo is a Spanish word that refers to a number of things:
An arroyo is an intermittently dry creek
Arts:
José Arroyo, an American comedy writer
Arroyo is a 4 piece rock band from Portland, Oregon. arroyo website
Miss Arroyo, the pseudonym of the porn star who contracted HIV from fellow porn star Darren James
Politics:Carmen E. Arroyo was the first Puerto Rican and Hispanic woman elected to the New York State Assembly
PFC Domingo Arroyo Jr. was the first United States soldier to be killed in "Operation Restore Hope" during the Somalian Civil War
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president of the Philippines
Sports:
Bronson Arroyo is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher with the Cincinnati Reds
Carlos Arroyo, an NBA basketball player
Places
Arroyo is a municipality in Puerto Rico
Arroyomolinos de León is a town and municipality in the province of Huelva, Spain.
Arroyo Grande is a city located in San Luis Obispo County, California
Arroyo Gardens-La Tina Ranch is a census-designated place located in Cameron County, Texas
Arroyo Seco is a creek and drainage channel in the southern part of the U.S. state of California.
Arroyo Hondo is the name of several rivers or seasonal streams
Arroyo Hondo (Santa Clara County, California), a stream in Santa Clara County, California
Arroyo Hondo (Kings County, California), a stream in Kings County, California
Arroyo Hondo (Fresno County, California), a stream in Fresno County, California
Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, a town or several streams in New Mexico
Arroyo Hondo, Arizona, a dry creek in Arizona
Arroyo, a fictional village in Fallout II
Restaurante Arroyo in Mexico City is the world's largest Mexican restaurant
Other
Arroyo is sometimes used as a phonetic descriptor of the call of the Canaan Dog
Arroyo Video Solutions, a company based in Pleasanton, California
Ditch:
A ditch is usually defined as a small to moderate depression created to channel water. A ditch can be used for drainage, to drain water from low lying areas, alongside roadways or fields, or to channel water from a more distant source for plant irrigation. A trench can be defined as a long narrow ditch. Ditches are commonly seen around farmland especially in areas that have required drainage, such as The Fens in the UK.
Roadside ditches can provide a hazard to motorists, especially in poor weather conditions. It is not an uncommon sight in some rural areas to see cars that have crashed into ditches, or to hear of such accidents.
Fortification
In military engineering and fortification, a distinction is made between a ditch and a trench. A ditch is an obstacle, designed to slow down or break up an attacking force, while a trench is cover, intended to provide protection to the defenders. In Mediaeval fortification, a ditch was often constructed in front of a defensive wall to hinder sapping and escalade. When filled with water, such a defensive ditch is called a moat. Later star forts of Vauban and others comprised elaborate networks of ditches and parapets, carefully calculated so that the soil for the raised earthworks was provided, as nearly as possible, entirely by the excavations whilst also maximising defensive firepower. Today ditches are obsolescent as an anti-personnel obstacle, but are still often used as anti-vehicle obstacles; see berm.
Wash:
CleaningA wash is the act of cleaning: I wash my hands in soapy water.
Painting
A wash is a light covering of watercolor on a painting. When painting three-dimensional models, they can be used to add shading.
Geography
A wash, also known as an arroyo, is a small river or stream. Typically (at least in rural parts of the central United States, and the especially the deserts of the Southwest) the term wash is used to reference a stream that only carries water when there is rain, and usually dries quickly. The term does not refer to a section of land that gets wet during heavy rains, which is a flood plain.The Wash is a large estuary on the east coast of England
EqualityThere is a common American phrase of, 'it's a wash'. This means the process of coming to be on equal footing with another party. If person A gives person B one dollar at the same time that person B gives person A a dollar, 'it's a wash'.
BrewingA synonym for mash, a mixture of sugar and/or other carbohydrates (such as grains, corn, potatoes, etc), water, and yeast. The resulting mixture is fermented and then usually distilled to make vodka, whiskey, or rum.
Mechanics
Engine Wash or Propeller Wash, a term for the disruption of air or water caused by the movements of the engine, usually of a large vessel.
Television
Hoban "Wash" Washburne is a major character on the television series Firefly.
Gully:
Gully in El Paso County, Colorado, USA.A gully is a landform created by running water eroding sharply into a hillside. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys, but are metres to tens of metres in height and width.Gullying, or gully erosion, is the process by which gullies are formed. Hillsides are more prone to gullying when they are cleared of forest or grazed, where eroded soil is easily carried by the flowing water after being disloged from the ground, and when rainfall falls during short, intense storms as during thunderstorms. Gullies reduce the productivity of farmland where they incise into the land, and produce sediment that may clog downstream waterbodies. Because of this, much effort is invested into the study of gullies within the scope of geomorphology, in the prevention of gully erosion, and in restoration of gullied landscapes.
EtymologyThe earliest usage of the term is from 1657. It originates from the French word goulet, a diminutive form of goule which means throat. It is possible that the term was derived from a type of knife at the time, a gully-knife, because hills that have gullies look as if they are cut open with a sharp knife.
Arroyo:
Arroyo is a Spanish word that refers to a number of things:
An arroyo is an intermittently dry creek
Arts:
José Arroyo, an American comedy writer
Arroyo is a 4 piece rock band from Portland, Oregon. arroyo website
Miss Arroyo, the pseudonym of the porn star who contracted HIV from fellow porn star Darren James
Politics:Carmen E. Arroyo was the first Puerto Rican and Hispanic woman elected to the New York State Assembly
PFC Domingo Arroyo Jr. was the first United States soldier to be killed in "Operation Restore Hope" during the Somalian Civil War
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president of the Philippines
Sports:
Bronson Arroyo is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher with the Cincinnati Reds
Carlos Arroyo, an NBA basketball player
Places
Arroyo is a municipality in Puerto Rico
Arroyomolinos de León is a town and municipality in the province of Huelva, Spain.
Arroyo Grande is a city located in San Luis Obispo County, California
Arroyo Gardens-La Tina Ranch is a census-designated place located in Cameron County, Texas
Arroyo Seco is a creek and drainage channel in the southern part of the U.S. state of California.
Arroyo Hondo is the name of several rivers or seasonal streams
Arroyo Hondo (Santa Clara County, California), a stream in Santa Clara County, California
Arroyo Hondo (Kings County, California), a stream in Kings County, California
Arroyo Hondo (Fresno County, California), a stream in Fresno County, California
Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, a town or several streams in New Mexico
Arroyo Hondo, Arizona, a dry creek in Arizona
Arroyo, a fictional village in Fallout II
Restaurante Arroyo in Mexico City is the world's largest Mexican restaurant
Other
Arroyo is sometimes used as a phonetic descriptor of the call of the Canaan Dog
Arroyo Video Solutions, a company based in Pleasanton, California
Ditch:
A ditch is usually defined as a small to moderate depression created to channel water. A ditch can be used for drainage, to drain water from low lying areas, alongside roadways or fields, or to channel water from a more distant source for plant irrigation. A trench can be defined as a long narrow ditch. Ditches are commonly seen around farmland especially in areas that have required drainage, such as The Fens in the UK.
Roadside ditches can provide a hazard to motorists, especially in poor weather conditions. It is not an uncommon sight in some rural areas to see cars that have crashed into ditches, or to hear of such accidents.
Fortification
In military engineering and fortification, a distinction is made between a ditch and a trench. A ditch is an obstacle, designed to slow down or break up an attacking force, while a trench is cover, intended to provide protection to the defenders. In Mediaeval fortification, a ditch was often constructed in front of a defensive wall to hinder sapping and escalade. When filled with water, such a defensive ditch is called a moat. Later star forts of Vauban and others comprised elaborate networks of ditches and parapets, carefully calculated so that the soil for the raised earthworks was provided, as nearly as possible, entirely by the excavations whilst also maximising defensive firepower. Today ditches are obsolescent as an anti-personnel obstacle, but are still often used as anti-vehicle obstacles; see berm.
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