| Main Entry: | sluice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stream |
Synonyms: |
channel, douse, flume, flush, gate, gush, pour, soak, trough, valve, wash |
| Main Entry: | deluge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inundate with water |
Synonyms: |
douse, drench, drown, engulf, flood, flush, gush, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, pour, sluice, soak, sop, souse, stream, submerge, swamp, wet, whelm |
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | issue, surge, run out |
Synonyms: |
abound, arise, brim, cascade, circulate, continue, course, deluge, discharge, disembogue, dribble, ebb, emanate, emerge, emit, exudate, exude, flood, glide, gurgle, gush, inundate, jet, leak, move, ooze, overflow, pass, percolate, pour, proceed, progress, pullulate, regurgitate, result, ripple, roll, rush, slide, sluice, smooth along, spew, spill, splash, spring, spurt, sputter, squirt, stream, sweep, swell, swirl, teem, trickle, tumble, void, well forth |
Antonyms: |
trickle |
| Main Entry: | flume |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chute |
Synonyms: |
channel, conduit, run, sluice, spillway |
| Main Entry: | gush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pour out |
Synonyms: |
burst, cascade, emanate, emerge, flood, flow, flush, issue, jet, pour, roll, run, rush, sluice, spew, spout, spring, spurt, stream, surge, well |
Antonyms: |
trickle |
| Main Entry: | gutter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch |
Synonyms: |
channel, conduit, culvert, dike, drain, duct, eaves, fosse, funnel, gully, moat, pipe, runnel, sewer, sluice, spout, sulcation, trench, trough, tube, watercourse |
| Main Entry: | lake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inland body of water |
Synonyms: |
basin, creek, inland sea, lagoon, lakelet, loch, mere, millpond, mouth, pond, pool, reservoir, sluice, spring, tarn |
| Main Entry: | pour |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be or make flowing |
Synonyms: |
cascade, cataract, course, crowd, decant, deluge, discharge, drain, drench, emit, flood, flow, give off, gush, inundate, issue, jet, let flow, proceed, rain, rill, roll, run, rush, sheet, shower, sluice, spew, spill, splash, spout, spring, stream, surge, swarm, teem, throng |
| Main Entry: | race |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stream, river |
Synonyms: |
branch, brook, creek, duct, gill, raceway, rill, rindle, rivulet, run, runnel, sluice, tide |
| Main Entry: | stream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flow from |
Synonyms: |
cascade, continue, course, emerge, emit, flood, glide, gush, issue, move past, pour, roll, run, shed, sluice, spill, spout, spritz, spurt, surge |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
flow into |