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Tributary vs Mouth - What's the difference?

tributary | mouth |

As nouns the difference between tributary and mouth

is that tributary is (river) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water while mouth is the opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

As an adjective tributary

is related to the paying of tribute.

As a verb mouth is

to speak; to utter.

tributary

English

(wikipedia tributary)

Noun

(tributaries)
  • (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.

    • Quotations

    ; nation paying tribute * 1602 : , act V scene 2 *: As England was his faithful tributary .

    Synonyms

    *(stream which flows into a larger one) affluent

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Related to the paying of tribute.
  • subordinate; inferior
  • * Milton
    • to grace his tributary gods
  • 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 Ohio has many tributary''' streams, and is itself '''tributary to the Mississippi.

    Related terms

    * tribute

    mouth

    English

    (wikipedia mouth)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs.
  • The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
  • (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • * Addison
    • Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
  • (obsolete) Cry; voice.
    • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • * Bible, Matt. xviii. 16
    • that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
  • (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To speak; to utter.
    • He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
  • * Hare
    • mouthing big phrases
  • To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
    • The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
  • To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
    • The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
  • (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
    • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (obsolete) To make mouths at.

    • Derived terms

    (mouth) * a closed mouth gathers no feet * all mouth and pants/trousers]], all mouth and no pants/[[all mouth and no trousers, trousers, all mouth * ass-to-mouth/ATM * badmouth * bad taste in one's mouth * bellmouth * big mouth * blabbermouth * born with a silver spoon in one's mouth * broadmouth * cottonmouth * dirty mouth * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * down in the mouth * dragon's mouth * dry mouth * fishmouth * flannelmouth * flutemouth * foam at the mouth * foot-and-mouth/foot and mouth * frogmouth * froth at the mouth * goalmouth * guttermouth * headmouth * hand-foot-and-mouth disease * hand-to-mouth * horse's mouth * keep one's mouth shut * largemouth * loudmouth/loud-mouth, loudmouthed/loud-mouthed * motor mouth * mouth bow * mouth-breather * mouthbreathing * mouthbrooder * mouthed/-mouthed * mouther * mouthfeel * mouth-footed * mouth harp * mouth-made * mouth of a sailor * mouth mirror * mouthful * mouthguard * mouthless * mouthlike * mouthly * mouth music * mouth off * mouth organ * mouthpart * mouthpiece * mouth-to-mouth * mouthwash * mouthwatering/mouth-watering * mouthy * out of the mouths of babes * pipemouth * poormouth * potty mouth * put one's foot in one's mouth * put one's money where one's mouth is * put words in somebody's mouth * redmouth * river mouth * run off at the mouth * saltmouth * scabby mouth * sea mouth * shoot off at the mouth * shoot one's mouth off * shut one's mouth * smallmouth * smash-mouth/smashmouth * straight from the horse's mouth * suckermouth * trench mouth * warmouth * wash your mouth out * watch your mouth * word of mouth * wrymouth

    See also

    * orifice

    Statistics

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