Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

River (Water in motion)

Nouns
  • running water. jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush
  • sluice. water spout, water fall
  • cascade, force, foss
  • lin, linn
  • ghyll, Niagara
  • cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm
  • debacle, inundation, deluge
  • chute, washout. rain, rainfall
  • serein
  • shower, scud
  • downpour
  • driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst
  • hyetology, hyetography
  • predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin
  • mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash
  • dropping etc. v.
  • falling weather
  • northeaster, hurricane, typhoon. stream, course, flux, flow, profluence
  • effluence etc. (egress) [Motion out of.] Egress
  • defluxion
  • flowing etc. v.
  • current, tide, race, coulee. spring, artesian well, fount, fountain
  • rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet
  • streamlet, brooklet
  • branch [U.S.]
  • runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river
  • reach, tributary. geyser, spout, waterspout. body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash
  • spring tide, high tide, full tide
  • bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre
  • fresh, freshet
  • indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow
  • confluence, corrivation. wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple
  • beach comber, riffle [U.S.], rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps
  • rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea. [Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics
  • hydraulics, hydraulicostatics
  • rain gauge, flowmeter
  • pegology. irrigation etc. (water) Water
  • pump
  • watering pot, watering cart
  • hydrant, syringe
  • garden hose, lawn spray
  • bhisti, mussuk.
Verbs
  • flow, run
  • meander
  • gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue
  • drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate
  • stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash
  • guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate
  • ooze, flow out etc. (egress) [Motion out of.] Egress. rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks
  • pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in
  • mizzle. flow into, fall into, open into, drain into
  • discharge itself, disembogue. [Cause a flow] pour
  • pour out etc. (discharge) [Motion out of, actively] Ejection
  • shower down, irrigate, drench etc. (wet) Water
  • spill, splash. [Stop a flow] stanch
  • dam, up etc. (close) Closure
  • obstruct etc. Hindrance.
Adjectives
  • fluent
  • diffluent, profluent, affluent
  • tidal
  • flowing etc. v.
  • meandering, meandry, meandrous
  • fluvial, fluviatile
  • streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous
  • stillatitious.
Phrases
  • that old man river, he just keeps rolling that old man river, he just keeps rolling along" [Showboat].