different between creek vs trickle
creek
English
Alternative forms
- crick (dialectical US)
- crik (eye dialect)
Etymology
From Middle English cr?ke, from Old Norse kriki. Early British colonists of Australia and the Americas used the term in the usual British way, to name inlets; as settlements followed the inlets upstream and inland, the names were retained and creek was reinterpreted as a general term for a small waterway.. Compare Dutch kreek, and French crique, both from the same source.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?k IPA(key): /k?i?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /k?ik/, (Appalachia) /k??k/
- Rhymes: -i?k, -?k
- Homophones: creak, crick
Noun
creek (plural creeks)
- (Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized waterbodies.
- Any turn or winding.
Synonyms
- beck, brook, burn, stream
- (regional US terms:) run (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia), brook (New England), branch (Southern US), bayou (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Southeastern Texas)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin: kriki
- Sranan Tongo: kriki
Translations
References
Anagrams
- ecker
creek From the web:
- what creek is near me
- what creek washington
- what creek means
- what creek am i near
- what creeks are stocked near me
- what creek is in mare of easttown
- what creeks are stocked with trout in pa
- what creeks are stocked in pa
trickle
English
Etymology
Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of to strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??k?l/
- Rhymes: -?k?l
Noun
trickle (plural trickles)
- A very thin river.
- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
- A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
- 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa
- The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.
Translations
Verb
trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)
- (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
- (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
Derived terms
- trickle truth
Translations
Anagrams
- tickler
trickle From the web:
- what trickle charger do i need
- what trickles
- what trickle charging mean
- what trickle means
- what trickle charger to buy
- what's trickle charge
- what's trickle down economics
- what trickles from those scars
you may also like
- creek vs trickle
- creek vs harbor
- creek vs mountain
- creek vs tributary
- glen vs creek
- creek vs quest
- creek vs null
- rivulets vs brook
- ravine vs brook
- brook vs fish
- tributary vs brook
- bach vs brook
- current vs brook
- brook vs runnel
- fans vs brook
- leat vs brook
- mind vs physique
- physique vs stuff
- physique vs cut
- finesse vs physique