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| 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 |
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| 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: | race |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stream, river |
| Synonyms: | branch, brook, creek, duct, gill, raceway, rill, rindle, rivulet, run, runnel, sluice, tide |
| Main Entry: | river |
| 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: | stream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small river |
| Synonyms: | beck, branch, brook, burn, course, creek, current, drift, flood, flow, freshet, race, rill, rindle, rivulet, run, runnel, rush, spate, spritz, surge, tide, torrent, 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: | rill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stream |
| Synonyms: | brook, channel, creek, rille, rivulet, runnel, streamlet, trench, valley |
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| Concept: | [Water in motion] River. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
running water., jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau; sluice., water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss; lin, linn; ghyll, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout., rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping; falling weather., stream, course, flux, flow, profluence; effluence (egress); defluxion; flowing; current, tide, race, coulee., spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet; streamlet, brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary., body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation., wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; beach comber, riffle [U.S.], rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea., [Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics; hydraulics, hydraulicostatics; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology., irrigation (water); pump; watering pot, watering cart; hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray, sprinkler; bhisti, mussuk.
-verbs
flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out (egress) [more]., rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle., flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself, disembogue., [Cause a flow] pour; pour out (discharge); shower down, irrigate, drench (wet) [more]; spill, splash., [Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up (close); obstruct.
-adjectives
fluent; diffluent, profluent, affluent; tidal; flowing; meandering, meandry, meandrous; fluvial, fluviaatile; streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous; stillatitious.
-phrases
"for men may come and men may go but I go on forever" [Tennyson]; "that old man river, he just keeps rolling along" [Showboat]
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| Concept: | [Fluid in motion] Stream. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion |
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stream (of water), (of air) [more].
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