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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
Concept Thesaurus
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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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
Main Entry: current
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flow of something, usually water

Synonyms:

course, draught, drift, ebb and flow, flood, flux, jet, juice, progression, river, run, rush, spate, stream, tidal motion, tide
Main Entry: flow
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: issue, abundance

Synonyms:

breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course, current, deluge, discharge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion, electricity, emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, leakage, movement, oozing, outflow, outpouring, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence, series, spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession, tide, train, wind

Antonyms:

trickle
Main Entry: plug
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stopper

Synonyms:

bung, connection, cork, filling, fitting, occlusion, river, spigot, stopple, tampon, wedge

Antonyms:

mouth, opening
Main Entry: big house
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: penal institution

Synonyms:

big cage, big house, big school, brig, calaboose, can, city hotel, cooler, coop, correctional institution, detention facility, house of correction, house of detention, icebox, jail, joint, penitentiary, prison, slammer, tank, the river
Main Entry: bayou
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: swampy outlet

Synonyms:

backwater, brook, creek, outlet, river, stream
Main Entry: cleaver
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cutting instrument

Synonyms:

axe, foe, hatchet, knife, meat ax, river
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