different between tributary vs streamlet

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

Etymology

From stream +? -let.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st?i?ml?t/

Noun

streamlet (plural streamlets)

1. A small stream.
   • 1637, Philemon Holland (translator), Britain by William Camden, London: George Latham, “Kent,” p. 330,^[1]

     Then the river Medway, branching it selfe into five streamlets, is joyned with as many stone Bridges […]

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman & Rees, Volume 1, Preface, p. iii,^[2]

     […] the eye, after poring over the unbounded expanse of the ocean, is releaved and delighted by a streamlet and a dell.

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 19:

     I wanted to jog in leisurely fashion through the green fields and chestnut avenues, over the rushing bubbling streamlets, to join Sylvie.

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Anagrams

• Marlettes