River vs Lune - What's the difference?
river | lune |
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.
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, 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.
(obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak
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A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles
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Anything crescent-shaped
(label) A leash for a hawk.
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As a proper noun river
is .As an adjective lune is
(only with bien'' or ''mal ) having a good or bad disposition, in a good or bad mood.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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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lune, from (etyl) luna.Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune , but is, strictly, a lens .Etymology 3
Alteration of (lyon).Noun
(en noun)- And thenne was he ware of a Faucon came fleynge ouer his hede toward an hyghe elme / and longe lunys' aboute her feet / and she flewe vnto the elme to take her perche / the ' lunys ouer cast aboute a bough / And whanne she wold haue taken her flyghte / she henge by the legges fast / and syre launcelot sawe how he henge
