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单词 confluent
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confluentn.

/ˈkɒnfluːənt/
Etymology: In sense 1 < Latin confluent-em, plural confluentes , the present participle used as a masculine noun; compare French confluent in same sense. In sense 2, noun use of confluence v.
1. A confluence of rivers; the place where streams or rivers unite. Rarely in plural. [= Latin confluentes, or perhaps for confluence.] Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > place where rivers meet
confluencea1552
confluent1600
confluity1623
conflux1712
watersmeet1828
sangam1857
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iv. xvii. 151 The Roman Dictator..abode upon the banckes of the Confluent (where both rivers runne into one).
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 140 Where Euphrates the riuer..ioineth with Tigris in one confluent.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 401 Ouse..is augmented with a namelesse brooke, at whose confluents is..Temesford.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. G7 A little beyond the townes end, the Riuer Arar and the Rhodanus doe make a confluent.
2. A stream which unites and flows with another: properly applied to streams of nearly equal size; but sometimes loosely used for affluent, i.e. a smaller stream flowing into a larger.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun]
succour1596
creek1622
kill1669
sidestream1715
feeder1795
tribute-river1820
tributary1822
affluent1829
confluent1849
sub-river1849
influent1859
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > confluent
confluent1849
1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains I. i. vii. 225 The Supna, one of its confluents.
1860 Sat. Rev. 10 563/1 The principles on which one confluent is selected rather than another for the honour of being called the main stream, are not very easy to determine.
1861 W. H. Russell in Times 10 July Commanding the Mississippi, here about 700 yards broad, and a small confluent which runs into it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

confluentadj.

/ˈkɒnfluːənt/
Etymology: < Latin confluent-em, present participle of confluĕre to flow together (as two rivers), < con- + fluĕre to flow: compare fluent adj. and n.
1.
a. Of streams or moving fluids: Flowing together so as to form one stream; uniting so as to form one body of fluid. See esp. quot. 1851-9.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective] > together
confluent1622
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xx. 15 These confluent Floods.
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋232 The confluent blood.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 252 The Ganges and Burrampooter have probably become confluent within the historical era.
1851–9 Manual Sc. Enq. 200 Rivers are said to be confluent when both branches are nearly equally deflected from their former direction.
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxxiii. 250 Rushing together like confluent streams.
b. Also said of roads, valleys, mountain-chains, etc., and figuratively of trains of circumstances.
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1816 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 16 551 All the other confluent causes of discontent are trifling.
1849 T. De Quincey Vision Sudden Death in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 745/2 The separate roads from Liverpool and from Manchester to the north become confluent.
1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. ix. 236 Numerous confluent valleys, whose united waters..enter the sea.
2. Flowing together in a body; forming one continuous moving mass. Also figurative.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective] > in compact mass
confluent1718
solid1893
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 417 The whole ocean's confluent waters swell.
1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 52 411 This vast confluent tumult.
3. Of a number of things originally separate: Meeting or ‘running’ into each other at the margins, so as to form a continuous mass or surface.
a. Pathology. Applied to the eruption in smallpox and other diseases, when the vesicles run together.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > boil > pustule > of smallpox
interstinct1623
confluent1715
coherent smallpox1724
siliquose1825
1715 A. Pitcairne Method of curing Small-pox in G. Sewell & J. T. Desaguliers tr. A. Pitcairne Wks. 275 If the Pox was confluent or run together on the Face.
1724 J. Jurin Small Pox in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 191 Small Pox, of that sort which is call'd the cohærent, or the middle between the distinct and the confluent kind.
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 536 The next morning..many [pimples] had appeared, which gradually thickened and became confluent.
1801 Med. Jrnl. 9 365 Two children..confined with the confluent Small-pox.
1882 Carpenter in 19th Cent. App. 531 The confluent variety of Small-pox.
b. Applied to spots, markings, surfaces, etc.: Blending together or passing into each other, without marked lines of division.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective]
mingedc1275
meddleda1387
melleda1393
blenda1400
entremedly?a1425
yblent1426
commixed?1440
mingleda1475
medleyed1480
mixed1482
intermista1552
intermixed1555
confuse1563
intermingled1586
confused1594
intermeddled1595
blended1621
throughother1626
commingled1648
miscellaneous1698
confluentiala1711
confluent1814
intermixing1815
immixed1855
blent1872
1814 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 2 61 That confluent pronounciation which all persons perceive in a language with which they are imperfectly acquainted.
1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iii. 121 The galaxy white with the glory of confluent suns.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xiv. 134 Wherever the white spots are large and stand near each other the surrounding dark zones become confluent.
1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 61 The markings becoming confluent, or nearly so, at or around the larger end.
1877 F. G. Heath Fern World 220 The sori set face to face, then become confluent.
1888 Scribner's Mag. 3 427 Many old vases have what we may call confluent necks, some amphoræ for instance, where the passage to the body is quite unmarked in the shape.
4. Of organic members, structures, processes, etc.: Running together; becoming at length united, connected, or blended into one.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > attached or becoming united
connated1578
indeciduous1646
adnate1648
confluent1823
connate1826
inserted1826
coadunate1839
conjugate1843
conjugating1851
coadnate1866
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Confluent..is an epithet for leaves or lobes.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 161 Groups of more or less confluent bones called ‘vertebræ’.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 176 By the term ‘confluent’ is meant the cohesion or blending together of two bones which were originally separate.
1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised Introd. 5 [The stamen] is confluent with the Pistil forming the Column.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 34 The anterior hypapophysis of the vertebra and its centrum which is more or less confluent with that of the ‘axis’.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §4. 100 Some of these blades are apt to be confluent; that is, a divided leaf is often in part merely parted.
5. Affluent or abounding in. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > wealthy in a specific thing
richc1175
confluent1598
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adjective] > towards each other or converging
confluent1598
converging1776
convergent1862
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades v. 80 Th' inhabitants in flocks and heards, are wondrous confluent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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