A large and often windingstream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
By the side of theriver he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while theriver still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelledrivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until theriver.
(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
As with the names oflakes andmountains, the names of rivers are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: theRiver Thames or theYangtze River. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives seeriver added to the end, as with theYellow River. It is less common to addriver before names than it is with lakes, but many of the rivers of Britain are written that way, as with theRiver Severn; indeed, British English tends to use "River X" in such cases while American, South African, Australian and New Zealand English use "X River". The former derives from the earlier but now uncommon formriver of ~: the 19th centuryRiver of Jordan is now usually simply theRiver Jordan.
It is common to preface the proper names of rivers with the articlethe.
Concerning the reference of its coordinate terms, some people say:[1] you can step over abrook, jump over acreek, wade across astream, and swim across ariver.
