Tributary vs Distributary - What's the difference?
tributary | distributary | Antonyms |
(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.
(hydrology) A branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a river's waters into the sea, as with the Atchafalaya River of the Mississippi.
Distributary is a antonym of tributary.
As nouns the difference between tributary and distributary
is that tributary is (river) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water while distributary is a branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a river's waters into the sea, as with the Atchafalaya River of the Mississippi.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.
