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(used in the Southwestern US or in reference to Spain, chiefly agriculture) An irrigation ditch.
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(agriculture) An irrigation system which catches mountain water and controls its movement down man-made subterranean channels, found in Oman.
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(hydrology) a stream, conduit, pond or reservoir, of a hydroelectric power plant at the outlet of the turbines.
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(construction, law) The bed or channel of a river, specifically that followed by the river flowing in its natural or ordinary course.
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(hydrology, of a water channel) A diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.
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Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).
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(obsolete) The dale of a stream or rivulet.
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(geology) The section of a floodplain where deposits of fine silt and clay settle after a flood.
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Alternative form of bathyscaphe [A self-propelled deep-sea diving submersible for exploring the ocean depths, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere suspended below a float filled with a buoyant liquid such as petrol.]
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A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
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(hydrology) the large particles of sediment that are carried along the bottom of a stream
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(Australia) An anabranch, backwater or oxbow lake that is temporarily cut off from the main river, especially one that is only filled with water during the rainy season and can sometimes dry up completely.
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(US, local to Catskill region of New York state) The backwater portion of a stream or remnant of an old stream bed.
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A type of biofilter designed to remove silt and pollution from surface runoff, consisting of a swaled drainage course with gently sloped sides and filled with vegetation, compost and/or riprap.
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A large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America that was detected in 2013 and continued to spread throughout 2014 and 2015.
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Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as an ocean, a river, lake or a bay.
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A head or reservoir of water.
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(chiefly US) Flat land along a river, lying a few feet above normal high water, often consisting of alluvial deposits and naturally fertile.
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(hydrology) Water that is bound to an inorganic surface.
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(chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
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The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
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A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
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The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
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(hydrology) An area from which water drains into a particular lake, river, etc.; the catchment area of a large river includes its tributaries.
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(US, dialect) A small canyon; a narrow valley or glen.
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Obsolete spelling of channel (Etymology 3) [The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.]
n
A kind of clear, alkaline stream that flows through chalk hills toward the sea.
adj
(of a stream) Having relatively clear water, free of large quantities of mud or tannin.
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Alternative form of coulee [A stream.]
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(Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
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The dry channel that was formerly the path of a stream.
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The course occupied by a creek running through a landscape, including the immediate habitat on both sides.
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(US) A breach in a canal or river bank.
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(Canada, US) The outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank leaving the opposite side flat.
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(plural only) The rapids in a deep, narrow stream confined between the rock walls of a canyon or gorge.
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(US, obsolete) Rapids; a rough section of water.
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Alternative form of dead water [(nautical) The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid or gas in advance of a concave angle.]
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(geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
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A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
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Land gained from the water by a change of water-line.
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Removal of water via a canal.
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(South Africa) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.
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(geomorphology) pattern formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin
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(geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
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A former lake, especially a lake that has dried and habitually remains dry, (US) opposed to playas.
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A dry or no longer active branch or reach (i.e. segment) of a river.
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(geology) A valley formed by water erosion, but without a permanent surface watercourse, often found in areas of permeable rock such as chalk or limestone.
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(UK dialect or archaic) A river or watercourse.
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(archaic) The mouth of a river or valley.
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An underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes.
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(geology) A lake that is ephemeral; that is, a lake that is usually dry, but that fills with water for brief periods during and after rainfall or other precipitation.
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An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
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(canoeing) Water that is calm, without significant currents or rapids.
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(UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
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A short cut taken by a river or similar waterway during high water, rather than following the normal meandering route.
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A stream that becomes enlarged by carrying floodwater
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A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
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Water that has remained in an aquifer for a long timespan, usually thousands or millions of years.
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(hydrology) Water that is not bound to an inorganic surface and can flow freely.
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The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
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A stream or spring of fresh water.
adj
Alternative spelling of freshwater [Living in fresh water.]
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(countable) A body of fresh water
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(nautical) A large quantity of water on a ship's deck as a result of massive waves during a large storm.
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(ecology) Alternative form of green water [(nautical) A large quantity of water on a ship's deck as a result of massive waves during a large storm.]
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An erosional feature of some intermittent and perennial streams with an abrupt vertical drop (knickpoint) in the stream bed.
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A stream that is the source of a river.
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The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
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A bend or winding of a stream.
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(literally) A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
n
A swiftly-flowing stream, typically one that runs down a hillside
adj
beneath or alongside the bed of a stream, where water percolates through interstices between the rocks leading to mixing of groundwater and surface water
adj
Describing the lower reaches of a relatively fast stream, typically fed by meltwater
n
(rivers, glaciers) an obstruction to the flow of a river caused by the flow of a glacier across its course
n
(geology) A linear channel eroded through bedrock by the passage of glacial ice.
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A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary.
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A waterway between such basins
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Part of a valley where the lower and flatter portion of the primary valley floor suddenly becomes steeper, used in computing a keyline for the efficient planning of water usage.
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(north-east US) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
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A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.
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(now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
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(meteorology) An effect of large bodies of fresh water on the weather of regions downwind.
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Land reclaimed from a lake by filling it.
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(countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
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The bank to the left of a river when facing downstream.
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An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
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A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
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(Britain) Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
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(dialectal) A watercourse.
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(geology) a sedimentary basin located in southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges
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(hydrology) A surface stream which flows into an underground passageway.
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The lowest stage of a river.
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Alternative form of linn (“waterfall”) [(Scotland, Northern England) A pool of water, especially one below a waterfall.]
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(geography) A relatively large basin (typically, of a large river system)
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The principal watercourse of a river that has multiple streams
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The water that runs through a millrace to power a mill.
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A river that is either too large or too small to have eroded the valley or passage in which it flows.
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The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
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Alternative spelling of mudslide which is more properly a mudflow.
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A geological event in which viscous mud flows down an incline.
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Alternative form of nullah [(chiefly South Asia) A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater.]
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Alternative form of nullah [(chiefly South Asia) A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater.]
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The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.
n
Alternative form of nullah (“stream-bed, ravine”) [(chiefly South Asia) A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater.]
n
(chiefly South Asia) A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater.
n
(chiefly Canada) An area of an ocean, sea, lake, or river which is not covered by ice.
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The mouth of a river; an estuary.
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A river that runs out of a lake.
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A river that is too large to have eroded the valley or passage in which it flows.
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(US, dialect) A bar in a river.
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A meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop
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A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.
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A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
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(chiefly US) A temporary lake formed after rainfall in a playa.
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(geography) An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
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An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
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The water in a reservoir.
adj
Describing the lower reaches of a stream
n
(geography) A type of lake that has no inlet, which is fed by rainfall and runoff, and preserved by high water tables, which dries out when water tables drop in dry weather.
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A lake formed after the damming of a watercourse by a landslide caused by an earthquake.
n
(often in the plural) a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
n
(obsolete or Essex dialect) A small river or stream.
n
A running waterway that links a ditch or stream to a river.
v
(civil engineering) To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
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a stream that flows into a larger channel
adj
Describing a relatively fast stream, typically fed by meltwater.
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A running waterway that links a ditch or stream to a river.
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A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
n
A small watercourse or gutter.
n
(UK dialectal) A watercourse or ditch.
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(chiefly US, law) A doctrine of riparian rights, based on the principle that the owners of riparian land had the right to remove reasonable amounts of water from the river, but others did not.
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(dialect) A small stream.
n
Obsolete spelling of river [A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.]
n
Alternative form of riverbank [A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.]
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(geography) An extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a river or series of rivers.
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Alternative form of riverbed [(hydrology) The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.]
n
The alluvial land along the margin of a river.
n
Water in or taken from a river.
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Alternative form of riverbed [(hydrology) The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.]
n
Alternative form of river water [Water in or taken from a river.]
n
A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.
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(hydrology) The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
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A knee or meander in a river.
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The mouth of a river (where it flows into a lake or sea)
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The alluvial plain of a river
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alternative form of river water. [Water in or taken from a river.]
n
(geology) A type of landslide characterized by falling rocks.
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Alternative form of rock water [Spring water as issued from beneath rocks, seen as being especially pure, clean or healthy.]
n
(attributive) A type of hydroelectric generation plant with little or no water storage, which is therefore subject to seasonal river flows.
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A small stream; a runlet.
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(India) A tract of sandy or boggy land often overflowed by the tide.
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A small stream, a rivulet.
n
A ridge of sand caused by the action of waves along a shore.
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(figuratively) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea.
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The (flowing) channel which results when a cut is made (often deliberately by humans) in a barrier beach which separates a bay from an ocean, so as to control the water level in the bay (which affects water mills) and its salinity (which affects shellfish).
n
Alternative form of seawater [The saltwater of a sea or ocean.]
adj
(not comparable) Associated in some way with seawater, or intended for dealing with seawater.
n
An area in a large body of water with many shallow areas.
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Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
adj
Full of shoals, or shallow places.
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A stretch of seawater in which there are no currents, or of a river impeded by a lock or dam.
n
Alternative form of slack-water [A time, at the turn of the tide, when the water is calm.]
n
A narrow channel of water.
n
A wet place; a river inlet.
adj
(especially said of the sea) still; with little or no movement on the surface
n
(Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
n
A path designed to take away overflow safely.
n
(hydrology) The flow of intercepted water down the trunk or stem of a plant.
n
A part of a stream where no current is visible.
adj
Used to describe one side of a subaerial dune or subaqueous ripple in sediment.
n
A small brook or rivulet.
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A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
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The calm part of a river
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A little stream; a streamlet.
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A flat, locally two-dimensional) streamsurface.
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Any of several parts of a watershed that drain to a specific location.
n
(geography) Water collecting on the ground or in a stream, river, lake, sea or ocean, as opposed to groundwater.
n
A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
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A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
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Synonym of swash (“narrow sound or channel of water”)
n
(economics) neoclassical, in reference to U.S. macroeconomics and economics departments around the Great Lakes.
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The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.
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Alternative spelling of thalweg [(geology, geography, cartography) The line that connects the lowest points in a valley or river channel, and thus the line of fastest flow or deepest water along a river’s course.]
n
(geology, geography, cartography) The line that connects the lowest points in a valley or river channel, and thus the line of fastest flow or deepest water along a river’s course.
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The line midway between the banks of a stream.
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seaweed and similar marine vegetation and rubbish deposited along a shore by a receding tide
n
(geography) A spit of sand linking an island to the mainland (or to another island), formed by longshore drift.
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An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation.
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(hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
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A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
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A river that is too small to have eroded the valley or passage in which it flows.
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an area which drains itself into a river.
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(US regional) A wetland or marsh.
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Any land that is flooded by a river from time to time.
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(uncountable or in the plural) Water in a body; an area of open water.
n
Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
n
(environmental sciences, hydrology) A notional column of water from the surface to the bottom in a natural setting, notable for the differences in physical and chemical properties at various depths.
n
The level of a body of water, especially when measured above a datum line.
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A piece of property (real estate) that is underwater.
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A summit from whose opposite sides rainwater flows into different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide; a watershed.
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(geology) The level, underground, below which the ground is saturated with water.
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The edge of any body of water, such as a lake or sea.
n
Alternative spelling of watershed [(hydrology, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.]
n
Alternative form of water body [Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.]
n
(countable) A break in the smooth surface of a body of water, such as a ripple, whitecap, or the roughness that results from water flowing over an uneven surface.
n
Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.
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A mark indicating the level to which water has risen.
n
(hydrology, US, Canada) A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
n
A planet or other large environment that is dominated by water.
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(figuratively) Turbulent conditions.
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Alternative spelling of white water [Any turbulent or frothy water as found in river rapids or surf.]
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(geography) A dry valley once occupied by a stream or river, since captured by another stream.
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A stream that only flows in winter (or after wet weather)
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(US) A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).
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(geology) A fast-flowing river characterized by a deep, narrow erosion pattern forming a V-shaped channel or valley.
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(Cornwall) A deep and narrow sea-inlet in the British Isles, especially Cornwall and the south-west, cut by erosion into sea-cliffs, and with steep or vertical side-walls; a cave through which the tide flows into a cliff.
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A landslide or landslip.
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