| 单词 | river channel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriver channel river channel n. the channel through which a river flows.figurative in quot. 1629. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > course gangeOE streama1552 train1570 sweep1596 river channel1629 currency1657 thread1691 current1708 urn1726 river run1927 1629 A. Top Bk. Prayses (new ed.) ii. xlvi. sig. Kv So the Church of God haveing allwayes the Ark and the doctrine therof, called the river-chanels of the citty, by them to instruct them: fear nothing. 1704 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1896) XI. 81 The Towne surveior only laid out..a Piece of land forty foote square, & there being Considerable land betweene it and the River Channill. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VI. 705/2 By the waste of the uplands..the river-channels are raised. 1945 H. L. Chhibber India I. xiv. 187 The Newer Alluvium is confined to the river channels and their flood plains and is locally termed as Khaddar. 2006 Nature 27 July 362/1 Images of Saturn's largest moon Titan..invoke a sense of familiarity: river channels meander downhill to damp lake-beds. < as lemmas |
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