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Lagoon vs Rivulet - What's the difference?

lagoon | rivulet |

As nouns the difference between lagoon and rivulet

is that lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar while rivulet is a small brook or stream; a streamlet.

lagoon

English

(wikipedia lagoon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.

    • 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 .
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    • , 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.}}