River - English meaning

noun

A stream.

Usage examples:

But £160,000 is needed for the final phase, a pumping station to discharge water from the beck into…

noun

A gesture requesting attention, such as a nod or wave.

Usage examples:

And when niall, who stood on the sideline for 40 minutes, finally got the beck, he didn't disappoin…

noun

A small river

noun

A branch of a river forming a backwater or stagnant pool, made by water flowing from the main stream during a flood.

Usage examples:

The water level in the billabong was high, too high for fishing, said the old ladies.

noun

In australia, a low area of ground that was part of a river in the past and that only fills up with water from the river during a flood.

noun

A small stream, especially one that flows intermittently or seasonally.

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One of the many good touches in this book is its linguistic bent, as in the explanation of tilth an…

noun

A limit or boundary.

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In works such as these, the paint-splattered canvases, which suggest the wilder bourns of abstract …

noun

A limit or boundary (= edge)

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These matters are beyond the bourne of our understanding., she was about to depart for some unknown…

noun

A small stream.

Usage examples:

The lake district boasts lovely lakes and babbling brooks

verb

Tolerate or allow (something, typically dissent or opposition).

Usage examples:

Jenny would brook no criticism of matthew

noun

A small stream

Usage examples:

A brook runs past the house., she won’t brook any criticism of her work.

verb

(of a fire) produce flames and heat while consuming a material such as coal or wood.

Usage examples:

A fire burned and crackled cheerfully in the grate

noun

An injury caused by exposure to heat or flame.

Usage examples:

He was treated in hospital for burns to his hands

noun

A small stream.

Usage examples:

There is a burn running through the flower beds

noun

An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation.

Usage examples:

They travelled on by canal

noun

A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.

Usage examples:

The bay includes saltmarsh, shallow and open water, tidal channels, mudflats and numerous islands, …

verb

Direct towards a particular end or object.

Usage examples:

The council is to channel public funds into training schemes

noun

A passage for water or other liquids to flow along, or a part of a river or other area of water that is deep and wide enough to provide a route for ships to travel along

Usage examples:

The english channel, she switched to another channel to watch the news., we’ve established a regula…

noun

A narrow, sheltered waterway, especially an inlet in a shoreline or channel in a marsh.

Usage examples:

A sandy beach in a sheltered creek

adjective

Relating to or denoting the creek or their language.

Usage examples:

In 1814, a creek faction, the red sticks, rose against settlers in the south but was crushed by gen…

noun

A small river or stream

noun

The flood of a river from heavy rain or melted snow.

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Particularly high spring freshets would flood the quarries and put off the opening of the season.

noun

A small arm of the sea, a lake, or a river.

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It is a land of undulating hills and hollows, dips and drumlins, rivers, inlets, estuaries and lake…

noun

A narrow channel of water that goes from a sea or lake into the land or between islands

noun

A small stream.

Usage examples:

The rill was a parched ravine now, as though some convulsion of the earth had bled the region dry o…

verb

Flow in a small stream; trickle.

Usage examples:

The spring water rilled over our cold hands

noun

A fissure or narrow channel on the moon's surface.

noun

A very small stream.

noun

A small stream of water or another liquid.

Usage examples:

Sweat ran in rivulets down his back

noun

A gutter.

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Muddy lanes with runnels for effluent

noun

A small stream

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The broken path that led up the mountainside had become a runnel., the water is crystal clear, the …

noun

A small, narrow river.

Usage examples:

A perfect trout stream

verb

(of liquid, air, gas, etc.) run or flow in a continuous current in a specified direction.

Usage examples:

She sat with tears streaming down her face

noun

A small river that flows on or below the surface of the ground

Usage examples:

Rivers are wider, deeper, and longer than streams., the faucet leaked in a steady stream., an endle…

noun

A small stream.

Usage examples:

The rivulet becomes a streamlet, and the desert silence is suddenly broken by the silver music of w…

noun

A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake.

Usage examples:

The illinois river, a tributary of the mississippi

noun

A river or stream that flows into a larger river or lake

Usage examples:

The missouri river is a tributary of the mississippi river

noun

A brook, stream, or artificially constructed water channel.

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It should never be spread close to a watercourse, and tanks should never be cleaned beside a stream…

noun

A river, canal, or other route for travel by water.

Usage examples:

The canal was a very successful commercial waterway