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(n)
(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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(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.
A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.
(often attributive) Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.
(adj)
Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.
Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.
(chiefly law) A person or other entity that lives or owns property along the shore of a river.
Any aquatic plant.
Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
Of or pertaining to rivers, or located on or by a river; inhabiting a river or its surrounds.
A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
A sloped side of a river acting as a barrier between the water and level ground to either side.
Of or pertaining to an estuary.
An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
(chiefly South Asia) A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater.
Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels.
The land alongside a body of water.
A bank or side of a river.
An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
The divide between land and a body of water.
A natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away.
(nautical) The scientific measurement and description of the physical features and conditions of navigable waters and the shoreline.
(geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
A body of water, such as a river, channel or canal, that is navigable.
A barangay of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines (unconfirmed).
A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
Amniotic fluid (see note at water (“amniotic fluid”)).
(of a body of water) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
Of or pertaining to hydrography.
(nautical) A lane or route at sea that is regularly used by ships; a sea lane or trade route.
A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
An instance of a person or animal drowning.
A group of vessels or vehicles.
A surname from Mandarin.
Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
(geology) The geologic period within the Mesozoic era that comprises lower and upper epochs from about 146 to 66 million years ago.
The interior part of a country.
A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, especially one of several strings.
A pattern or ornament forming a border.
A place torn; a rent; a rift.
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected.
A grade of Spanish saffron, in quality below mancha and coupé but above standard and sierra.
A unisex given name
Alternative form of heh (“Semitic letter”). [The fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).]
Alternative form of kuai (“yuan, Chinese currency”). [A historical Chinese dish consisting of finely cut strips of raw fish or meat.]
(law) Initialism of unauthorized practice of law.
(financial services) Initialism of Unified Payments Interface.
(anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
(Northeastern US) A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
The condition of being blind; unable to see.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Food.
(countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
A sequence of events.
A revers.
(Venezuelan politics) Democratic Unity Roundtable, a coalition of opposition political parties in Venezuela.
(Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
The fictional gigantic gorilla from the story King Kong.
The third largest city in Ecuador, capital of Azuay province.
A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
A major river in China, India and Pakistan, rising in Tibet and flowing into the Arabian Sea.
The chief river of central China and the third longest river in the world, flowing a total of 6300 km.
A river in southeastern Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.
A coastal city in northwestern Croatia.
A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Whitehorse.
Water.
A city, river, and region of Quebec, Canada.
A town in Manitoba.
A river in British Columbia that flows from the Rocky Mountains into the Strait of Georgia, named after Simon Fraser (explorer).
A surname from Mandarin; variant forms Chiang, (obsolete) Kiang.
A surname from Mandarin; variant form Jiang.
A surname from Spanish. An Anglicisation of a Spanish habitational surname from Riós in Galicia
A locality in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, northern Alberta, Canada.
Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells.
Alternative form of rivière (“necklace of precious stones”). [A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, especially one of several strings.]
Influenza.
A small stream, a rivulet.