River vs Highway - What's the difference?
river | highway |
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)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (rail) Any public road for vehicular traffic.
As a proper noun river
is .As a noun highway is
a main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.river
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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.}}
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)See also
*Verb
(en verb)- Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
Etymology 2
References
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* ----highway
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
