Slough vs Stream - What's the difference?
slough | stream |
The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
To shed (skin).
To slide off (like a layer of skin).
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(card games) To discard.
(British) A muddy or marshy area.
* 1883' "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous '''slough . — ''
(Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
(Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
A state of depression.
(Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all are formed by glacial potholes.
A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
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, title= A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
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(sciences) An umbrella term for all moving waters.
(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
(UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
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* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
As a proper noun slough
is a town in east berkshire, and formerly in buckinghamshire, close to heathrow airport.As a noun stream is
a small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.As a verb stream is
to flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.slough
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), akin to Middle High German ).Alternative forms
* sluffNoun
(en noun)- That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
- This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
Verb
(en verb)- This skin is being sloughed .
- A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
- The mud sloughed off her palms easily
- East sloughed a heart.
Derived terms
* slough offEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough .
- The contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
- John is in a slough .
- Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.
Derived terms
* sloughy * Slough of DespondAnagrams
* English heteronymsstream
English
Noun
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citation, passage=A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.}}
Synonyms
* beck * brook * burn * creek * flow * rillVerb
(en verb)- beneath those banks where rivers stream
- When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed .
- A flag streams in the wind.