Tributary vs Canal - What's the difference?
tributary | canal |
(senseid) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.
Related to the paying of tribute.
subordinate; inferior
* Milton
Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing.
An artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another
A tubular channel within the body.
To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
* {{quote-book, year=1968, title=Proceedings, author=Louisiana State University, page=165
, passage= In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded. }}
To travel along a canal by boat
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=William Yoast Morgan, title=A Journey of a Jayhawker, page=211, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=vTELAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA211
, passage=Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.}}
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As nouns the difference between tributary and canal
is that tributary is (senseid) a natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water while canal is canal.As an adjective tributary
is related to the paying of tribute.tributary
English
(wikipedia tributary)Noun
(tributaries)Quotations
; nation paying tribute * 1602 : , act V scene 2 *: As England was his faithful tributary .Synonyms
*(stream which flows into a larger one) affluentAdjective
(-)- to grace his tributary gods
- The Ohio has many tributary''' streams, and is itself '''tributary to the Mississippi.
canal
English
(wikipedia canal)Noun
(en noun)Verb
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