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river
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English ryver, river, rivere, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Old French riviere, from Vulgar Latin *r?p?ria (“riverbank, seashore, river”), from Latin r?p?rius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin r?pa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Displaced native Old English ?a.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???v?/
- (General American) enPR: r?v'?r, IPA(key): /???v?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
- Hyphenation: riv?er
Noun
river (plural rivers)
- A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
- (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
- (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
Usage notes
- As with the names of lakes and mountains, the names of rivers are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: the River Thames or the Yangtze River. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see river added to the end, as with the Yellow River. It is less common to add river before names than it is with lakes, but many of the rivers of Britain are written that way, as with the River Severn; indeed, British English tends to use "River X" in such cases while American, South African, Australian and New Zealand English use "X River". The former derives from the earlier but now uncommon form river of ~: the 19th century River of Jordan is now usually simply the River Jordan.
- It is common to preface the proper names of rivers with the article the.
- Concerning the reference of its coordinate terms, some people say: you can step over a brook, jump over a creek, wade across a stream, and swim across a river.
Derived terms
Related terms
- tributary (noun)
Descendants
- ? Finnish: river (“river (in poker)”)
- Sranan Tongo: liba
Translations
See river/translations § Noun.
See also
- fluvial
- Category:Rivers
Verb
river (third-person singular simple present rivers, present participle rivering, simple past and past participle rivered)
- (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
- Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
Etymology 2
rive +? -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??a?v?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??a?v?/
- Rhymes: -a?v?(?)
Noun
river (plural rivers)
- One who rives or splits.
References
Further reading
- river in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Danish
Noun
river c
- indefinite plural of rive
Verb
river
- present of rive
Finnish
Etymology
< English river
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?er/, [?ri?e?r]
- Rhymes: -i?er
- Syllabification: ri?ver
Noun
river
- (poker) river (fifth communal card in Texas hold'em)
Declension
Synonyms
- viides avokortti, viimeinen avokortti
See also
- joki (“river”)
French
Etymology
From a Germanic source (compare Danish rive).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i.ve/
Verb
river
- to drive/set a rivet
Conjugation
Related terms
- rive
Further reading
- “river” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- virer
Latin
Verb
r?ver
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of r?v?
Middle English
Noun
river
- Alternative form of ryver
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
river m or f
- indefinite plural of rive
Verb
river
- present of rive
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
river f
- indefinite plural of rive
Verb
river
- (non-standard since 2012) present tense of riva and rive
Swedish
Verb
river
- present tense of riva.
Anagrams
- revir, virre
river From the web:
canalise
English
Alternative forms
- canalize
Etymology
canal +? -ise
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kæn.?.la?z/, /k??næl.a?z/
- Rhymes: -æn?la?z, -æla?z
Verb
canalise (third-person singular simple present canalises, present participle canalising, simple past and past participle canalised)
- (transitive, British spelling) To convert (a river or other waterway) into a canal.
- 2005, New Science Publications, New scientist, Volume 188
- Under Advance Brazil, the government plans to pave over 7000 kilometres of new Amazonian highways, canalise vast rivers and construct dozens of railways, […]
- 2005, New Science Publications, New scientist, Volume 188
- (transitive, British spelling) To build a canal through.
- (transitive, British spelling) To channel the flow of.
- 1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep, Virago: London, 1996,page 221
- On the desk lay the final version of the Birth Control speech, mastered and canalized by the skilful Maisie.
- 1948, Sir Winston Churchill, The Second World War: The Gathering Storm, Page 373
- ...yet it is always a wise precaution in defending a frontier of hundreds of miles to bar off as much as possible by fortifications, and thus economise the use of troops in sedentary roles and "canalise" potential invasion.
- 1927, Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep, Virago: London, 1996,page 221
Derived terms
- canalisation
- recanalise
Translations
Quotations
- 1854 David Thomas Ansted - Scenery, Science and Art: being extracts from the note-book of a geologist and mining engineer
- . . . owing to the recent commencement of works about to be carried on on a large scale to improve and canalise the navigation of the Ebro . . .
Anagrams
- sacaline, selacian
French
Verb
canalise
- first-person singular present indicative of canaliser
- third-person singular present indicative of canaliser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of canaliser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of canaliser
- second-person singular imperative of canaliser
Anagrams
- alsacien, Alsacien
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