英语词汇“rivulets”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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small rivulets trickled down the side of the cliff

Recent Examples on the Web The tiny fish had navigated what remained of the river at that time: a rivulet a person could often leap across, a few inches deep at times, Benkert said.

Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021 At the lower left, a rivulet of water trickles from a half-round wooden pipe into the cool darkness of a catchment pool.

William E. Wallace, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021 In a few short weeks, a torrential global river of money sprang from NFTs; in a few short days, a few celebrities diked it and drained off a rivulet of cash to a 15-employee nonprofit in Washington.

Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021 What starts as a worrying dot of pigment becomes a puddle, and then a rivulet, then begins to look, undeniably, like the basin of an overflowing toilet.

Jenny Singer, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2020 In the sewers and rivulets along the streets in the city of masks the rats ride in masks like passengers in boats crossing the Lethe.

Daniel Torday, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020 Column continues below video: Not 90 seconds into his tribute, tears ran down Jordan’s face like tiny rivulets.

Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020 This further contributes to erosion, which snowballs as moving water increases speed and carves out rivulets and then gullies.

Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019 The pulses sometimes caused the lava channel to overtop its banks, creating new rivulets that threatened nearby property.

Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2019 See More

单词	rivulets
释义	rivulet noun riv·u·let ˈri-vyə-lət -və- : a small stream Synonyms beck [British] bourn bourne brook brooklet burn [British] creek gill [British] rill run [chiefly Midland] runlet runnel streamlet See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences small rivulets trickled down the side of the cliff Recent Examples on the Web The tiny fish had navigated what remained of the river at that time: a rivulet a person could often leap across, a few inches deep at times, Benkert said. Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021 At the lower left, a rivulet of water trickles from a half-round wooden pipe into the cool darkness of a catchment pool. William E. Wallace, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021 In a few short weeks, a torrential global river of money sprang from NFTs; in a few short days, a few celebrities diked it and drained off a rivulet of cash to a 15-employee nonprofit in Washington. Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021 What starts as a worrying dot of pigment becomes a puddle, and then a rivulet, then begins to look, undeniably, like the basin of an overflowing toilet. Jenny Singer, Glamour, 20 Nov. 2020 In the sewers and rivulets along the streets in the city of masks the rats ride in masks like passengers in boats crossing the Lethe. Daniel Torday, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020 Column continues below video: Not 90 seconds into his tribute, tears ran down Jordan’s face like tiny rivulets. Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020 This further contributes to erosion, which snowballs as moving water increases speed and carves out rivulets and then gullies. Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019 The pulses sometimes caused the lava channel to overtop its banks, creating new rivulets that threatened nearby property. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2019 See More Word History Etymology Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo, from Latin rivulus, diminutive of rivus stream — more at run First Known Use 1587, in the meaning defined above Kids Definition rivulet noun riv·u·let ˈri-vyə-lət : a small stream rivulets noun plural of rivulet as in brooks a natural body of running water smaller than a river small rivulets trickled down the side of the cliff Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance brooks creeks streams rills runnels streamlets tributaries runs becks bayous canals bourns brooklets burns bournes gills freshets arroyos runlets runoffs watercourses freshes sloughs washes coulees billabongs waterways channels distributaries races slews affluents branches cutoffs slues millraces millstreams influents guts kills confluents cuts
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