how to pronounce flume

/fluːm/

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flume is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of flume in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… a water slide the flume was inside the …”

meanings of flume

noun:

An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids.
A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.

verb:

To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.

flume frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word flume occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics flume can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that flume can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;