river
n. large stream of water; large stream of any liquid; abundant flow, outpouring | ||||
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River Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
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RIVR
River Valley Bancorp.
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Savings and loan holding company with subsidiary which performs savings bank operations, mortgage banking and other related financial activities.
River Valley Bancorp.
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Savings and loan holding company with subsidiary which performs savings bank operations, mortgage banking and other related financial activities.
River Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
River
(v. i.)
To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
(n.)
One who rives or splits.
(n.)
Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
(n.)
A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
(v. i.)
To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
(n.)
One who rives or splits.
(n.)
Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
(n.)
A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
| WordNet 2.0 |
river
Noun
1. a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles"
(hypernym) stream, watercourse
(hyponym) Aare, Aar, Aare River
(part-holonym) water system
(part-meronym) estuary
(class) bend, curve
Noun
1. a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles"
(hypernym) stream, watercourse
(hyponym) Aare, Aar, Aare River
(part-holonym) water system
(part-meronym) estuary
(class) bend, curve
| The Phrase Finder |
Sold down the river
Meaning
Cheated or deceived.
Origin
The phrase originated in the Mississippi region of the USA during slave trading days. Domestic slaves were sold to plantation owners lower down the river where they usually suffered harsh treatment.
Meaning
Cheated or deceived.
Origin
The phrase originated in the Mississippi region of the USA during slave trading days. Domestic slaves were sold to plantation owners lower down the river where they usually suffered harsh treatment.
| Australian Slang |
Hawkesbury Rivers
the cold shivers
the cold shivers
River Murry
a curry
Swannee Rivers
the shivers
| hEnglish - advanced version |
river
river
\riv"er\ (?), v. i. to hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl. [obs.]
river
\riv"er\ (?), n. one who rives or splits.
river
\riv"er\ (?), n. [f. rivère a river, ll. riparia river, bank of a river, fr. l. riparius belonging to a bank or shore, fr. ripa a bank or shore; of uncertain origin. cf. arrive, riparian.]
1. a large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook. transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow.
2. fig.: a large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
river
chub (zo?l.), the hornyhead and allied species of fresh-water fishes.
river
crab (zo?l.), any species of fresh-water crabs of the genus thelphusa, as t. depressa of southern europe.
river
dragon, a crocodile; -- applied by milton to the king of egypt.
river
driver, a lumberman who drives or conducts logs down rivers.
river
duck (zo?l.), any species of duck belonging to anas, spatula, and allied genera, in which the hind toe is destitute of a membranous lobe, as in the mallard and pintail; -- opposed to sea duck.
river
god, a deity supposed to preside over a river as its tutelary divinity.
river
herring (zo?l.), an alewife.
river
hog. (zo?l.) (a) any species of african wild hogs of the genus potamochœrus. they frequent wet places along the rivers. (b) the capybara.
river
horse (zo?l.), the hippopotamus.
river
jack (zo?l.), an african puff adder (clotho nasicornis) having a spine on the nose.
river
limpet (zo?l.), a fresh-water, air-breathing mollusk of the genus ancylus, having a limpet-shaped shell.
river
pirate (zo?l.), the pike.
river
snail (zo?l.), any species of fresh-water gastropods of paludina, melontho, and allied genera. see pond snail, under pond.
river
tortoise (zo?l.), any one of numerous fresh-water tortoises inhabiting rivers, especially those of the genus trionyx and allied genera. see trionyx.
river
n : a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles"
river
1. heb. 'aphik, properly the channel or ravine that holds water (2 sam. 22:16), translated "brook," "river," "stream," but not necessarily a perennial stream (ezek. 6:3; 31:12; 32:6; 34:13).
2. heb. nahal, in winter a "torrent," in summer a "wady" or valley (gen. 32:23; deut. 2:24; 3:16; isa. 30:28; lam. 2:18; ezek. 47:9). these winter torrents sometimes come down with great suddenness and with desolating force. a distinguished traveller thus describes his experience in this matter:, "i was encamped in wady feiran, near the base of jebel serbal, when a tremendous thunderstorm burst upon us. after little more than an hour's rain, the water rose so rapidly in the previously dry wady that i had to run for my life, and with great difficulty succeeded in saving my tent and goods; my boots, which i had not time to pick up, were washed away. in less than two hours a dry desert wady upwards of 300 yards broad was turned into a foaming torrent from 8 to 10 feet deep, roaring and tearing down and bearing everything upon it, tangled masses of tamarisks, hundreds of beautiful palmtrees, scores of sheep and goats, camels and donkeys, and even men, women, and children, for a whole encampment of arabs was washed away a few miles above me. the storm commenced at five in the evening; at half-past nine the waters were rapidly subsiding, and it was evident that the flood had spent its force." (comp. matt. 7:27; luke 6:49.)
3. nahar, a "river" continuous and full, a perennial stream, as the jordan, the eup
canton river
river of god
river severn
mobile river
river adige
isere river
thames river
river driver
river snail
yangtze river
swan river everlasting
volkhov river
loire river
volga river
river duck
little missouri river
river dragon
illinois river
tigris river
river cocytus
kansas river
yellow river
river styx
indus river
kanawha river
kan river
river cooter
yalu river
river tern
colorado river
nan river
river gum
river horse
rhine river
lena river
tombigbee river
river jack
river tortoise
river kasai
river tyne
red river
river god
the forks of a river
tidal river
kura river
irtish river
kaw river
tocantins river
river herring
niger river
river blindness
little bighorn river
severn river
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river
\riv"er\ (?), v. i. to hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl. [obs.]
river
\riv"er\ (?), n. one who rives or splits.
river
\riv"er\ (?), n. [f. rivère a river, ll. riparia river, bank of a river, fr. l. riparius belonging to a bank or shore, fr. ripa a bank or shore; of uncertain origin. cf. arrive, riparian.]
1. a large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook. transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow.
2. fig.: a large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
river
chub (zo?l.), the hornyhead and allied species of fresh-water fishes.
river
crab (zo?l.), any species of fresh-water crabs of the genus thelphusa, as t. depressa of southern europe.
river
dragon, a crocodile; -- applied by milton to the king of egypt.
river
driver, a lumberman who drives or conducts logs down rivers.
river
duck (zo?l.), any species of duck belonging to anas, spatula, and allied genera, in which the hind toe is destitute of a membranous lobe, as in the mallard and pintail; -- opposed to sea duck.
river
god, a deity supposed to preside over a river as its tutelary divinity.
river
herring (zo?l.), an alewife.
river
hog. (zo?l.) (a) any species of african wild hogs of the genus potamochœrus. they frequent wet places along the rivers. (b) the capybara.
river
horse (zo?l.), the hippopotamus.
river
jack (zo?l.), an african puff adder (clotho nasicornis) having a spine on the nose.
river
limpet (zo?l.), a fresh-water, air-breathing mollusk of the genus ancylus, having a limpet-shaped shell.
river
pirate (zo?l.), the pike.
river
snail (zo?l.), any species of fresh-water gastropods of paludina, melontho, and allied genera. see pond snail, under pond.
river
tortoise (zo?l.), any one of numerous fresh-water tortoises inhabiting rivers, especially those of the genus trionyx and allied genera. see trionyx.
river
n : a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles"
river
1. heb. 'aphik, properly the channel or ravine that holds water (2 sam. 22:16), translated "brook," "river," "stream," but not necessarily a perennial stream (ezek. 6:3; 31:12; 32:6; 34:13).
2. heb. nahal, in winter a "torrent," in summer a "wady" or valley (gen. 32:23; deut. 2:24; 3:16; isa. 30:28; lam. 2:18; ezek. 47:9). these winter torrents sometimes come down with great suddenness and with desolating force. a distinguished traveller thus describes his experience in this matter:, "i was encamped in wady feiran, near the base of jebel serbal, when a tremendous thunderstorm burst upon us. after little more than an hour's rain, the water rose so rapidly in the previously dry wady that i had to run for my life, and with great difficulty succeeded in saving my tent and goods; my boots, which i had not time to pick up, were washed away. in less than two hours a dry desert wady upwards of 300 yards broad was turned into a foaming torrent from 8 to 10 feet deep, roaring and tearing down and bearing everything upon it, tangled masses of tamarisks, hundreds of beautiful palmtrees, scores of sheep and goats, camels and donkeys, and even men, women, and children, for a whole encampment of arabs was washed away a few miles above me. the storm commenced at five in the evening; at half-past nine the waters were rapidly subsiding, and it was evident that the flood had spent its force." (comp. matt. 7:27; luke 6:49.)
3. nahar, a "river" continuous and full, a perennial stream, as the jordan, the eup
canton river
river of god
river severn
mobile river
river adige
isere river
thames river
river driver
river snail
yangtze river
swan river everlasting
volkhov river
loire river
volga river
river duck
little missouri river
river dragon
illinois river
tigris river
river cocytus
kansas river
yellow river
river styx
indus river
kanawha river
kan river
river cooter
yalu river
river tern
colorado river
nan river
river gum
river horse
rhine river
lena river
tombigbee river
river jack
river tortoise
river kasai
river tyne
red river
river god
the forks of a river
tidal river
kura river
irtish river
kaw river
tocantins river
river herring
niger river
river blindness
little bighorn river
severn river
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| Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1 |
river
abha, abha(i)nn f. (gen. abhann, now: aibhne), sruth
abha, abha(i)nn f. (gen. abhann, now: aibhne), sruth
| JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary |
Aber
Aber = n. m. the fall of one river into another, or into the sea, a confluence of water
Aber = n. m. the fall of one river into another, or into the sea, a confluence of water
Afon
Afon = n. a river
River Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
| EIA Energy Glossary |
River (method of transportation to consumers - coal)
Shipments of coal moved to consumers via river by barge. Shipments to Great Lakes coal loading docks or Tidewater pier or coastal points are not included.
Shipments of coal moved to consumers via river by barge. Shipments to Great Lakes coal loading docks or Tidewater pier or coastal points are not included.
| Glossary of water terms |
| Physical Geography Terms and Meanings |
River
A long narrow channel of water that flows as a function of gravity and elevation across the Earth's surface. Many rivers empty into lakes, seas, or oceans.
A long narrow channel of water that flows as a function of gravity and elevation across the Earth's surface. Many rivers empty into lakes, seas, or oceans.
| Dream Dictionary |
River
If you see a clear, smooth, flowing river in your dream, you will soon succeed to the enjoyment of delightful pleasures, and prosperity will bear flattering promises.
If the waters are muddy or tumultuous, there will be disagreeable and jealous contentions in your life.
If you are water-bound by the overflowing of a river, there will be temporary embarrassments in your business, or you will suffer uneasiness lest some private escapade will reach public notice and cause your reputation harsh criticisms.
If while sailing upon a clear river you see corpses in the bottom, you will find that trouble and gloom will follow swiftly upon present pleasures and fortune.
To see empty rivers, denotes sickness and unusual ill-luck.
If you see a clear, smooth, flowing river in your dream, you will soon succeed to the enjoyment of delightful pleasures, and prosperity will bear flattering promises.
If the waters are muddy or tumultuous, there will be disagreeable and jealous contentions in your life.
If you are water-bound by the overflowing of a river, there will be temporary embarrassments in your business, or you will suffer uneasiness lest some private escapade will reach public notice and cause your reputation harsh criticisms.
If while sailing upon a clear river you see corpses in the bottom, you will find that trouble and gloom will follow swiftly upon present pleasures and fortune.
To see empty rivers, denotes sickness and unusual ill-luck.
| Phobia |
Antlophobia
Fear of floods
Fear of floods
Potamophobia
Fear of rivers or running water
| Dream Symbols |
River Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
| UK Post Codes and Counties |
River
County: West Sussex
Post Code: GU28
County: West Sussex
Post Code: GU28
| US Zip Codes |
41254
State: KENTUCKY
City: RIVER
State: KENTUCKY
City: RIVER
River Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Easton's Bible Dictionary |
River
(1.) Heb. 'aphik, properly the channel or ravine that holds water (2 Sam. 22:16), translated "brook," "river," "stream," but not necessarily a perennial stream (Ezek. 6:3; 31:12; 32:6; 34:13). (2.) Heb. nahal, in winter a "torrent," in summer a "wady" or valley (Gen. 32:23; Deut. 2:24; 3:16; Isa. 30:28; Lam. 2:18; Ezek. 47:9). These winter torrents sometimes come down with great suddenness and with desolating force. A distinguished traveller thus describes his experience in this matter:, "I was encamped in Wady Feiran, near the base of Jebel Serbal, when a tremendous thunderstorm burst upon us. After little more than an hour's rain, the water rose so rapidly in the previously dry wady that I had to run for my life, and with great difficulty succeeded in saving my tent and goods; my boots, which I had not time to pick up, were washed away. In less than two hours a dry desert wady upwards of 300 yards broad was turned into a foaming torrent from 8 to 10 feet deep, roaring and tearing down and bearing everything upon it, tangled masses of tamarisks, hundreds of beautiful palmtrees, scores of sheep and goats, camels and donkeys, and even men, women, and children, for a whole encampment of Arabs was washed away a few miles above me. The storm commenced at five in the evening; at half-past nine the waters were rapidly subsiding, and it was evident that the flood had spent its force." (Comp. Matt. 7:27; Luke 6:49.) (3.) Nahar, a "river" continuous and full, a perennial stream, as the Jordan, the Euphrates (Gen. 2:10; 15:18; Deut. 1:7; Ps. 66:6; Ezek. 10:15). (4.) Tel'alah, a conduit, or water-course (1 Kings 18:32; 2 Kings 18:17; 20:20; Job 38:25; Ezek. 31:4). (5.) Peleg, properly "waters divided", i.e., streams divided, throughout the land (Ps. 1:3); "the rivers [i.e., 'divisions'] of waters" (Job 20:17; 29:6; Prov. 5:16). (6.) Ye'or, i.e., "great river", probably from an Egyptian word (Aur), commonly applied to the Nile (Gen. 41:1-3), but also to other rivers (Job 28:10; Isa. 33:21). (7.) Yubhal, "a river" (Jer. 17:8), a full flowing stream. (8.) 'Ubhal, "a river" (Dan. 8:2).
(1.) Heb. 'aphik, properly the channel or ravine that holds water (2 Sam. 22:16), translated "brook," "river," "stream," but not necessarily a perennial stream (Ezek. 6:3; 31:12; 32:6; 34:13). (2.) Heb. nahal, in winter a "torrent," in summer a "wady" or valley (Gen. 32:23; Deut. 2:24; 3:16; Isa. 30:28; Lam. 2:18; Ezek. 47:9). These winter torrents sometimes come down with great suddenness and with desolating force. A distinguished traveller thus describes his experience in this matter:, "I was encamped in Wady Feiran, near the base of Jebel Serbal, when a tremendous thunderstorm burst upon us. After little more than an hour's rain, the water rose so rapidly in the previously dry wady that I had to run for my life, and with great difficulty succeeded in saving my tent and goods; my boots, which I had not time to pick up, were washed away. In less than two hours a dry desert wady upwards of 300 yards broad was turned into a foaming torrent from 8 to 10 feet deep, roaring and tearing down and bearing everything upon it, tangled masses of tamarisks, hundreds of beautiful palmtrees, scores of sheep and goats, camels and donkeys, and even men, women, and children, for a whole encampment of Arabs was washed away a few miles above me. The storm commenced at five in the evening; at half-past nine the waters were rapidly subsiding, and it was evident that the flood had spent its force." (Comp. Matt. 7:27; Luke 6:49.) (3.) Nahar, a "river" continuous and full, a perennial stream, as the Jordan, the Euphrates (Gen. 2:10; 15:18; Deut. 1:7; Ps. 66:6; Ezek. 10:15). (4.) Tel'alah, a conduit, or water-course (1 Kings 18:32; 2 Kings 18:17; 20:20; Job 38:25; Ezek. 31:4). (5.) Peleg, properly "waters divided", i.e., streams divided, throughout the land (Ps. 1:3); "the rivers [i.e., 'divisions'] of waters" (Job 20:17; 29:6; Prov. 5:16). (6.) Ye'or, i.e., "great river", probably from an Egyptian word (Aur), commonly applied to the Nile (Gen. 41:1-3), but also to other rivers (Job 28:10; Isa. 33:21). (7.) Yubhal, "a river" (Jer. 17:8), a full flowing stream. (8.) 'Ubhal, "a river" (Dan. 8:2).
| Smith's Bible Dictionary |
River
In the sense in which we employ the word viz. for a perennial stream of considerable size, a river is a much rarer object in the East than in the West. With the exception of the Jordan and the Litany, the streams of the holy land are either entirely dried up in the summer months converted into hot lanes of glaring stones, or else reduced to very small streamlets, deeply sunk in a narrow bed, and concealed from view by a dense growth of shrubs. The perennial river is called nahar by the Hebrews. With the definite article, "the river," it signifies invariably the Euphrates. (Genesis 31:21; Exodus 23:31; Numbers 24:6; 2 Samuel 10:16) etc. It is never applied to the fleeting fugitive torrents of Palestine. The term for these is nachal, for which our translators have used promiscuously, and sometimes almost alternately, "valley" "brook" and "river." No one of these words expresses the thing intended; but the term "brook" is peculiarly unhappy. Many of the wadys of Palestine are deep, abrupt chasms or rents in the solid rock of-the hills, and have a savage, gloomy aspect, far removed from that of an English brook. Unfortunately our language does not contain any single word which has both the meanings of the Hebrew nachal and its Arabic equivalent wady which can be used at once for a dry valley and for the stream which occasionally flows through it.
In the sense in which we employ the word viz. for a perennial stream of considerable size, a river is a much rarer object in the East than in the West. With the exception of the Jordan and the Litany, the streams of the holy land are either entirely dried up in the summer months converted into hot lanes of glaring stones, or else reduced to very small streamlets, deeply sunk in a narrow bed, and concealed from view by a dense growth of shrubs. The perennial river is called nahar by the Hebrews. With the definite article, "the river," it signifies invariably the Euphrates. (Genesis 31:21; Exodus 23:31; Numbers 24:6; 2 Samuel 10:16) etc. It is never applied to the fleeting fugitive torrents of Palestine. The term for these is nachal, for which our translators have used promiscuously, and sometimes almost alternately, "valley" "brook" and "river." No one of these words expresses the thing intended; but the term "brook" is peculiarly unhappy. Many of the wadys of Palestine are deep, abrupt chasms or rents in the solid rock of-the hills, and have a savage, gloomy aspect, far removed from that of an English brook. Unfortunately our language does not contain any single word which has both the meanings of the Hebrew nachal and its Arabic equivalent wady which can be used at once for a dry valley and for the stream which occasionally flows through it.
River Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Environmental Engineering (English ver.) |
RIVER
A natural stream of water of considerable volume, larger than a brook or creek. A river has its stages of development, youth, maturity, and old age. In its earliest stages a river system drains its basin imperfectly; as valleys are deepened, the drainage becomes more perfect, so that in maturity the total drainage area is large and the rate of erosion high. The final stage is reached when wide flats have developed and the bordering lands have been brought low.
A natural stream of water of considerable volume, larger than a brook or creek. A river has its stages of development, youth, maturity, and old age. In its earliest stages a river system drains its basin imperfectly; as valleys are deepened, the drainage becomes more perfect, so that in maturity the total drainage area is large and the rate of erosion high. The final stage is reached when wide flats have developed and the bordering lands have been brought low.
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| National Wild and Scenic Rivers |
River Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
| English-Latin Online Dictionary |
river
flumen
flumen
River Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
| English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan |
River
pilash (anc.)
pilash (anc.)
| English - Klingon |
river
n. bIQtIq
n. bIQtIq
River Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Desktop Publishing Glossary |
River
White space between words that joins together so it resembles a river (or stream) of white running down the page, disrupting the even text color. Normally caused by the irregular spacing in justified text combined with shorter measures and poor hyphenation.
White space between words that joins together so it resembles a river (or stream) of white running down the page, disrupting the even text color. Normally caused by the irregular spacing in justified text combined with shorter measures and poor hyphenation.
River Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
River
A river is a natural waterway that transits water through a landscape from higher to lower elevations. It is an integral component of the water cycle. The water within a river is generally collected from precipitation through surface runoff, groundwater recharge (as seen at baseflow conditions / during periods of lack of precipitation) and release of stored water in natural reservoirs, such as a glacier.
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