different between river vs flood

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)

1. 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.

2. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

4. (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
5. (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)

1. (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)

1. One who rives or splits.

References

Further reading

• river in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Danish

Noun

river c

1. indefinite plural of rive

Verb

river

1. present of rive

Finnish

Etymology

< English river

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?er/, [?ri?e?r]
• Rhymes: -i?er
• Syllabification: ri?ver

Noun

river

1. (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

1. 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

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of r?v?

Middle English

Noun

river

1. Alternative form of ryver

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

river m or f

1. indefinite plural of rive

Verb

river

1. present of rive

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

river f

1. indefinite plural of rive

Verb

river

1. (non-standard since 2012) present tense of riva and rive

Swedish

Verb

river

1. present tense of riva.

Anagrams

• revir, virre

English

Alternative forms

• floud (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English flod, from Old English fl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *fl?du, from Proto-Germanic *fl?duz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic ???????????????????????? (fl?dus).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fl?d, IPA^(key): /fl?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

flood (plural floods)

1. A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
2. (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
3. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
4. A floodlight.
5. Menstrual discharge; menses.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Harvey to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• deluge
• diversion
• inundation
• torrent

Verb

flood (third-person singular simple present floods, present participle flooding, simple past and past participle flooded)

1. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
2. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.

   The floor was flooded with beer.

   They flooded the room with sewage.

3. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
4. (Internet, transitive, intransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
   • 1998, "Dr. Cat", Furry web site plug (on newsgroup alt.fan.furry)

     There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.

5. To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.

Antonyms

• (overflow): drain

Synonyms

• (overflow): overfill
• (cover): inundate
• (provide with large number): inundate, swamp, deluge

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• of old

Middle English

Noun

flood

1. Alternative form of flod

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English flood.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fl?d??/

Noun

flood m (plural floods)

1. (Internet slang) a flood of superfluous text messages

Related terms

• floodar