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

单词	river
释义	riv·er I. \ˈrivə(r)\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English rivere, river, from Old French rivere, riviere riverbank, land along a river, river, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin riparia, from Latin, feminine of riparius riparian, from ripa bank, shore + -arius -ary — more at rive 1. a. : a natural surface stream of water of considerable volume and permanent or seasonal flow < river channel > < river gravel > < river engineer > — compare brook, creek b. : watercourse < dry river > < underground river > c. : estuary, tidal river < York River, Va. > < Neponset River, Mass. > also : inlet, strait < East River, N.Y. > < Sakonnet River, R.I. > < Indian River, Fla. > 2. a. : something resembling a river < river of ice > < river of air > < rivers of lava glow an angry red — Read Magazine > < the enormous oceanic river of the Gulf Stream — Marjory S. Douglas > < costumes … made a rippling, many-colored river of the street — H.A.Sinclair > < the never-failing river of student life — J.B.Conant > b. rivers plural : copious flow : large or overwhelming quantities : outpouring < rivers of birds pouring against the sunset back to the rookeries — Marjory S. Douglas > < rain, pouring down through the blackness in solid rivers — C.S.Forester > < rivers of print that gushed forth about her — Mollie Panter-Downes > < drank rivers of coffee > 3. : a pure-white diamond of very high grade occasionally with a prismatic blue radiance 4. : a white typically irregular streak or area running through several lines of close-set printed matter and caused by a series of wide spaces that appear to form a continuous line — called also channel, gutter, staircase • - down the river - up the river II. \ˈrīvə(r)\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, one that rives, from riven to rive + -er — more at rive : one that rives; specifically : a worker who splits blocks of wood with a froe to make pickets, posts, or rails
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