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Affluent
noun · 78% connection
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Anacharis
noun · 78% connection
A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Anas
noun · 78% connection
A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Breastwheel
noun · 78% connection
A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Burden
noun · 78% connection
The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Corrasion
noun · 78% connection
The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Coulee
noun · 78% connection
a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distingui…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Current
adjective · 78% connection
A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Effluent
noun · 78% connection
A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Feeder
noun · 78% connection
A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Flash
noun · 78% connection
A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Flood
verb · 78% connection
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Flume
noun · 78% connection
A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Fountain
noun · 78% connection
An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Fresh
superl · 78% connection
Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Fresh-water
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Head
noun · 78% connection
The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.
Injector
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stream, fresh, water.