river

Roget-categorie 348

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.2. Inorganic matter
›› 3.2.2. Fluid matter

#348. [Water in motion.] River

zelfstandig naamwoord

running water.
jet, spirt^†, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau [Fr.] — 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 etc. v. — falling weather — northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.
stream, course, flux, flow, profluence^† — effluence etc. (egress) 295 — defluxion^† — flowing etc. v. — 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.
geyser, spout, waterspout.
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 — anerythmon gelasma [Gr.] — 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 etc. (water) 337 — pump — watering pot, watering cart — hydrant, syringe — garden hose, lawn spray — bhisti^†, mussuk^†.

werkwoord

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 etc. (egress) 295.
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 etc. (discharge) 297 — shower down, irrigate, drench etc. (wet) 337 — spill, splash.
[Stop a flow] stanch — dam, up etc. (close) 261 — obstruct etc. 706.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

fluent — diffluent^†, profluent^†, affluent — tidal — flowing etc. v. — meandering, meandry^†, meandrous^† — fluvial, fluviatile — streamy^†, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous^† — stillatitious^†.

uitdrukking

for men may come and men may go but I go on for men may come and men may go but I go on forever" [Tennyson]; that old man river, he just keeps rolling that old man river, he just keeps rolling along" [Showboat].

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