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Canyon vs Rivulet - What's the difference?

canyon | rivulet |

As nouns the difference between canyon and rivulet

is that canyon is canyon while rivulet is a small brook or stream; a streamlet.

canyon

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
  • * '>citation
    • Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.

    Synonyms

    * dale, dalles, gulch, ravine, vale, valley * See also

    Derived terms

    * box canyon * concrete canyon * Copper Canyon * Grand Canyon

    Anagrams

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    rivulet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small brook or stream; a streamlet.
  • * (Charles Cotton) (1630-1687)
    • Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets .
  • *, chapter=23
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.}}