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River vs Bubbler - What's the difference?

river | bubbler |

As nouns the difference between river and bubbler

is that river is a large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea or river can be one who rives or splits while bubbler is something that emits bubbles.

As a verb river

is (poker) to improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

river

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea.
  • * 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
    • By the side of the river' 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 the ' river 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= High and wet , passage=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 swelled rivers , washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}
  • Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
  • (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
    • Derived terms
    * cry someone a river * riverbank * riverbed * river basin * river bed * river birch * river blindness * riverboat/river boat * river bottom * river boulder * river dolphin * river duck * riverfront * river hog * river horse * riverine * river lamprey * river limper * river mouth * river otter * river pear * river prawn * river runner * river shad * riverside * riverward * riverway * sell down the river * submarine river * up the river * (river)
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
    • Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who rives or splits.

    • References

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    bubbler

    English

    (wikipedia bubbler)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that emits bubbles.
  • * 1860 , Charles Stuart Forbes, Iceland; Its Volcanoes, Geysers and Glaciers , page 247,
    • In proof of this I can assert my success in extinguishing a youthful bubbler near Reykholt church.
  • An airstone for an aquarium.
  • A drinking fountain.
  • * 1919 February, , Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics , Issue 250, page 39,
    • There are many types of fountain from which persons may drink by taking the nozzle of the bubbler' into the mouth, and this practice is common ; furthermore, there are many types in the use of which water from the lips of the consumer falls back onto the ' bubbler at the point of outlet.
  • * 1939 June, Ella Gardner, Short-Time Camps: A Manual for 4-H Leaders , , Miscellaneous Publication No. 346, page 11,
    • Plans for an inexpensive bubbler or drinking fountain that have been worked out by the 4-H Club department in Massachusetts are shown in figure 4.
  • * 1962 February, Repairs and Utilities: Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Mechanical Ventilation, and Evaporative Cooling , , Technical Manual TM 5-670, page 82,
    • Small self-contained water coolers have a limited capacity of cooled water. They are equipped with one bubbler or drinking fountain and have a capacity of about 5 gallons of cooled water per hour or less.
  • A device used for smoking marijuana, similar to a but with a section that holds water, like a bong
  • (obsolete) One who cheats.
    • All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers , subscribers, projectors, etc. — Alexander Pope.
  • (US) A fish of the Ohio river; so called from the noise it makes.

    • Usage notes

    In , used primarily in the phrase “(Benson Bubbler)”.

    Synonyms

    * (drinking fountain) drinking fountain, water fountain * (device for smoking marijuana) bubbler bong

    Anagrams

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    References

    * Map of “bubbler, drinking fountain, water fountain” usage in the United States, Harvard Dialect Survey, Bert Vaux * The Meaning of the Bubbler * Use of bubbler as a synonym for drinking fountain, LINGUIST List 5.1377, Fri 02 Dec 1994 * Wisconsin Englishes: Words