Tributary vs Inflow - What's the difference?
tributary | inflow |
(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.
The act or process of flowing in or into
Anything which flows in or into
Influence.
*2000 , Sandra Marie Schneiders, Finding the Treasure :
*2008 , Richard Calichman, Overcoming Modernity :
*2010 , Gabriel Ezutah, Trail of Immortality :
As nouns the difference between tributary and inflow
is that tributary is (senseid) a natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water while inflow is the act or process of flowing in or into.As an adjective tributary
is related to the paying of tribute.As a verb inflow is
to flow in.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.
inflow
English
Noun
(en noun)- The inflow of air
- But there is also "top down causality" in which the entire system, as a whole, is affected by the inflow or influence of pattern formation, or "information."
- Broadly speaking, there are two cases in which a national culture is subjected to the sudden inflow or influence of a foreign culture: (1) when the former is conquered by the latter and (2) when it conquers the latter.
- Open yourself completely to the inflow and influence of the music and light of God through daily practice of the spiritual exercises, which he gives to you.
