different between tributary vs brook

English

Etymology

From Middle English tributarie (“paying tribute”), from Latin trib?t?rius, from trib?tum (“tribute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??bj?t??i/

Noun

tributary (plural tributaries)

2. A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.

   Synonym: affluent

3. A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.

Related terms

• distributary

Translations

Adjective

tributary (not comparable)

1. Related to the paying of tribute.
2. subordinate; inferior
3. Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing.

   The Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.

Related terms

• tribute

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: br??k, IPA^(key): /b??k/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /b?u?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English br?can (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan? (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to enjoy”). German brauchen is cognate.

Verb

brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)

1. (transitive, formal) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
   • 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing ?ISBN, page 104

     After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
2. (transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III scene ii^[2]:

     […] How brooks your grace the air, / After your late tossing on the breaking seas?

3. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.

Synonyms

• (use): apply, employ, utilize
• (earn): See also Thesaurus:deserve
• (tolerate): See also Thesaurus:tolerate

Derived terms

• abrook

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English brook, from Old English br?c (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kaz (“stream”).

Noun

brook (plural brooks)

1. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

   • The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
2. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
3. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• Holcombe Brook
• Rea Brook
• Stamford Brook

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English bro(o)ken (“to use, enjoy, digest”), from Old English br?can (“to use, enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan?. See also brouk.

Verb

tae brook

1. To enjoy; to possess; to have use or owndom of.