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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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).

单词	confluent
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1600adj.1598
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