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| Main Entry: | stream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small river |
| Synonyms: | branch, brook, burn, course, creek, current, drift, flood, flow, race, rill, rivulet, run, rush, spate, surge, tide, torrent, tributary, watercourse, beck, freshet, rindle, runnel, spritz |
| 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: | stream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flow from |
| Synonyms: | cascade, continue, course, emerge, emit, flood, glide, gush, issue, pour, roll, run, shed, sluice, spill, spout, spurt, surge, move past, spritz |
| Antonyms: | flow into |
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| Main Entry: | course |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flow; run |
| Synonyms: | career, chase, dart, dash, follow, gallop, gush, hasten, hunt, hurry, hustle, pursue, race, rush, scamper, scoot, scurry, speed, spring, stream, surge, tumble |
| Main Entry: | crowd |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cram, press into area |
| Synonyms: | bear, bunch, bundle, chock, cluster, congest, congregate, crush, deluge, elbow, flock, gather, huddle, jam, jam-pack, justle, mass, muster, overcrowd, pack, pack 'em in, pack like sardines, pile, push, ram, sardine, shove, squash, squeeze, squish*, stream, surge, swamp, swarm, throng, top off, troop |
| Antonyms: | abandon, leave, retreat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | current |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flow of something, usually water |
| Synonyms: | course, drift, flood, flux, jet, juice, progression, river, run, rush, spate, stream, tide, draught, ebb and flow, tidal motion |
| Main Entry: | effusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outpouring |
| Synonyms: | address, diffusion, discharge, effluvium, efflux, emanation, emission, gush, gushing, ooze, outflow, pouring, shedding, stream, verbosity, wordiness, effluence, exudate |
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming flow, quantity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, bore, bounty, cataclysm, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, drift, eager, excess, flow, flux, glut, inundation, multitude, outpouring, overflow, plenty, pour, profusion, rush, spate, stream, superabundance, superfluity, surge, surplus, tide, torrent, wave, alluvion, drencher, freshet, niagara, outgushing, tsunami |
| 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, movement, outflow, outpouring, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence, series, spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession, tide, train, wind, leakage, oozing |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | issue, surge, run out |
| Synonyms: | abound, arise, brim, cascade, circulate, continue, course, deluge, discharge, dribble, ebb, emanate, emerge, emit, exude, flood, glide, gurgle, gush, inundate, jet, leak, move, ooze, overflow, pass, percolate, pour, proceed, progress, regurgitate, result, ripple, roll, rush, slide, sluice, spew, spill, splash, spring, spurt, sputter, squirt, stream, sweep, swell, swirl, teem, trickle, tumble, void, disembogue, exudate, pullulate, smooth along, well forth |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | fountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | source, often of liquid |
| Synonyms: | cause, font, geyser, gush, inception, inspiration, jet, lode, mine, origin, play, provenance, pump, reservoir, root, spout, spray, spring, stream, well, wellspring, bubbler, fount, mainspring, provenience, wellhead |
| Main Entry: | gas |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something not liquid or solid |
| Synonyms: | effluvium, fumes, miasma, smoke, stream, vapor, volatile substance |
| Antonyms: | liquid, solid |
| Main Entry: | glide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move smoothly and quickly on a surface |
| Synonyms: | coast, decline, descend, drift, flit, float, flow, fly, roll, run, sail, scud, shoot, skate, skim, skip, slide, slink, slip, slither, soar, spiral, stream, trip, waft, wing, glissade, skirr, smooth along |
| Main Entry: | gush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outpouring |
| Synonyms: | burst, cascade, flood, flow, flush, issue, jet, run, rush, spate, spout, spring, spurt, stream, surge |
| Main Entry: | jet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spurt, gush |
| Synonyms: | flow, fly, issue, pour, roll, rush, shoot, soar, spew, spout, squirt, stream, surge, travel, zoom, spritz |
| Main Entry: | onrush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rush |
| Synonyms: | attack, avalanche, blitz, charge, dash, deluge, flood, flow, flux, haste, hurry, onslaught, push, race, scramble, stampede, storm, stream, surge, swiftness, hastiness, hurriedness |
| Main Entry: | outflow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | efflux |
| Synonyms: | discharge, drainage, effluvium, effusion, emergence, gush, rush, spout, stream, effluence, effluent, gushing outpouring, streaming |
| Main Entry: | outpouring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outflow |
| Synonyms: | cascade, deluge, discharge, effusion, flood, flow, gush, issue, jet, outburst, rush, spurt*, stream, torrent, effluence, leakage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, proceed, rain, rill, roll, run, rush, sheet, shower, sluice, spew, spill, splash, spout, spring, stream, surge, swarm, teem, throng, let flow |
| Main Entry: | rain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | downpour of water or other substance |
| Synonyms: | cloudburst, condensation, deluge, drizzle, fall, flood, flurry, hail, mist, pour, pouring, precipitation, rainfall, shower, spate, spit, sprinkle, sprinkling, stream, torrent, volley*, cat-and-dog weather, drencher, heavy dew, liquid sunshine, monsoon, precip, raindrops, rainstorm, sheets, showers, sleet, sun shower, wet stuff, window washer |
| Antonyms: | dryness, aridity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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