| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waterway |
| Synonyms: | beck, branch, brook, course, creek, estuary, rill, rivulet, run, runnel, stream, tributary, watercourse |
| Notes: | a stream is smaller than a river, a creek is smaller than a stream but larger than a brook; stream, brook, creek, and rivulet are applied interchangeably to any small river |
| Main Entry: | brook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stream of water |
| Synonyms: | beck, branch, burn, creek, rill, rindle, river, rivulet, run, runnel, streamlet, watercourse |
| Notes: | a stream is smaller than a river, a creek is smaller than a stream but larger than a brook; stream, brook, creek, and rivulet are applied interchangeably to any small river |
| Main Entry: | creek |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stream of water |
| Synonyms: | brook, brooklet, burn, crick, ditch, race, rill, rindle, river, rivulet, run, runnel, spring, streamlet, tributary, watercourse |
| Notes: | a stream is smaller than a river, a creek is smaller than a stream but larger than a brook; stream, brook, creek, and rivulet are applied interchangeably to any small river |
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flow of something, usually water |
| Synonyms: | course, draught, drift, ebb and flow, flood, flux, jet, juice, progression, river, run, rush, spate, stream, tidal motion, tide |
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue, abundance |
| Synonyms: | breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course, current, deluge, discharge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion, electricity, emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, leakage, movement, oozing, outflow, outpouring, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence, series, spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession, tide, train, wind |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | plug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stopper |
| Synonyms: | bung, connection, cork, filling, fitting, occlusion, river, spigot, stopple, tampon, wedge |
| Antonyms: | mouth, opening |
| Main Entry: | rapids |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high-current part of river |
| Synonyms: | rapine, river, whitewater |
| Main Entry: | watercourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waterway |
| Synonyms: | aqueduct, brook, canal, channel, chute, conduit, creek, culvert, drain, estuary, flume, gullet, gully, gutter, inlet, ravine, river, sluice, spillway, stream, trench, wadi |
| Main Entry: | rivulet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small river |
| Synonyms: | bourn, brook, channel, creek, rill, river, runlet, runnel, stream, streamlet |
| Notes: | a stream is smaller than a river, a creek is smaller than a stream but larger than a brook; stream, brook, creek, and rivulet are applied interchangeably to any small river |