underground source

collocation in English

meaningsofundergroundandsource

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underground
adjective
adverb
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈɡraʊnd/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈɡraʊnd/
below the surface of the earth; ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofundergroundandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Next the search algorithm for theundergroundsourcelocating robot is addressed.
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It is obvious that the catchment boards are affected in a large number of cases by the taking of water from a river or anundergroundsource.
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There is a real point here that is connected not only with compensation water but with the abstraction of underground water, or the increasing abstraction from anundergroundsource.
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This was a localundergroundsource.
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In the 1890s intrepid prospectors searched for theundergroundsourceof that gold in the mountains.
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Water started accumulating in this quarry due to opening of anundergroundsource.
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The water from thisundergroundsourceis plumbed up and into the facilities air system which controls the temperature of the air coming from the vents.
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This may simply reflect the lake's insensitivity to climate change because of its large volume, long residence time, and possible underground sources of inflow.
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In this country great use is made of underground sources for public water supplies, and nearly all of the water percolates down from the surface.
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Work is in hand to catch and store water in the upper water table, and geological surveys are being undertaken to find other underground sources.
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We believe in the offers that have come through underground sources and that are being rejected, spurned, and attacked.
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The law has been quite inadequate to control pollution through underground sources into the ground water system.
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It is an established right at common law for an owner to be able to abstract water from underground sources on his land.
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A further concern was that liquefied plutonium might somehow reach underground sources of drinking water.
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The possibility of getting water from underground sources, what is called ground water, is illusory.
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I should like to make a brief reference to the pollution of underground sources.
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Obviously they come from underground sources which may or may not be reliable.
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More and more water is being extracted from underground sources or from the headwaters of rivers, and returned lower downstream as sewage effluent.
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Thirdly, they found that control should be extended to abstractions from underground sources in areas where such abstractions are likely to reduce significantly the flow of a river or stream.
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But it would not make sense to separate the responsibility for the underground sources from the responsibility for the distribution system in which they are embedded.
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