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单词 rivulet
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rivuletn.

Brit. /ˈrɪvjᵿlᵻt/, /ˈrɪvjᵿlɛt/, U.S. /ˈrɪv(j)ələt/
Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s riuelet, 1500s– rivlet, 1600s riuilet, 1600s riulet, 1600s– rivelet, 1700s–1800s riv'let.

β. 1500s reuelllette, 1500s–1600s riuolet, 1600s reuolet, 1600s revolet, 1600s riualet, 1600s rivalet, 1600s–1700s rivolet.

γ. 1600s riuulet, 1600s– rivulet, 1700s rivulett.

Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Probably partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Probably partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: riveret n.; Latin rīvulus , -et suffix1; Italian rivoletto.
Etymology: Probably partly an alteration of riveret n., after classical Latin rīvulus Rivulus n. and (in later use) perhaps also Italian rivoletto (see below), partly < classical Latin rīvulus Rivulus n. + -et suffix1, and partly (in later use: compare β. forms) < Italian rivoletto small river, small stream, brook (although this is first attested later: a1642; < rivolo , in same sense (a1320; < classical Latin rīvulus Rivulus n.) + -etto -et suffix1). Compare post-classical Latin rivuleta (13th cent. in a British source). In sense 2 apparently so called on account of the white wavy markings on its wings.Italian rivoletto is much less common than its synonym rivolo.
1.
a. A small river; a stream.Chiefly U.S. in later use of the α form.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > rivulet or runnel
rindleeOE
runningc1350
stripec1440
ruissel1477
channel1478
veina1500
rivel1542
rivereta1552
rivulet1577
rundle1577
runnel1577
runner1578
runnet1601
rival1602
riverling1605
run1605
riveling1615
creek1622
drill1641
vein riveret1652
riverlet1654
rigolet1771
runlet1801
α.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. ix. f. 20/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Meeting with sundry other reuellettes [1587 riuelets] by the way.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xii. 55/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I A pretie riuelet [1577 riueret] rising about Michelneie.
1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxv. 313 Of that huge Sea let's through a Riblet [1612 Riulet] waide.
1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. ii. 38 Triton..call'd the neighb'ring Nymphes each in her turne To poure their pretty Riuelets from their Vrne.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 108 Two new Forts..vpon a pleasant plaine, and neare a little Riuilet.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 8 As naturall a fluxe..as the water in the rivelet hath from the fount.
1671 in N.Y. Cal. Doc. (1853) III. 196 They past this day several brave brookes and small Rivelets.
1705 H. Dodwell Case in View Consider'd 56 Their Authority, communicated to him, but not given away from themselves..; but (like a Rivelet from the fountain) still streaming from their Consent.
1784 E. Hunt Rush-bearing i. 10 How they exult, and dance, and shout, and cry; O'er hill, and dale, and rock, and rivlet fly.
1830 S. Wells Hist. Drainage Bedford Level II. 436 The fens cannot be drowned, nor can any other river or rivelet in our fens run high.
1871 C. C. Hutchinson Resources of Kansas 255 The streams in Kansas, as everywhere else, unless fed by mountain rivlets flowing from perpetual snows, are at their lowest.
1925 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 17 May (Aunt Elsie's Mag.) 2/1 The rivlet, long the hillside, Where the pine trees are growing, Where the wild animals hide.
1950 Estherville (Iowa) Daily News 20 Jan. 4/1 The newly constructed dam across the rivlet north of No. 8. green.
2008 G. L. L. Anderson Muirecka ii. xlvii. 245 There were ponds, lakes, streams, rivlets, outlets and pools, but absolutely no oceans.
β. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xii. 330 Hercules being leagued with King Oeneus, vndertooke to suppresse this raging riuer,..extenuating his maine streame, by inforcing it into many riualets.1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 22 There being sundry riuolets that descend from the mountains.1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 106 A tender Olive set In a lone place, near a smooth Rivolet.1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 123 The most noted Rivers take their rise and beginning from the smallest Rivolets.1784 Acts & Laws State Connecticut 257 There might be considerable Profit arise by floating of Timber down the Rivolet called Windsor-River.γ. 1613 W. Shute tr. J. J. Orlers & H. van Haestens Triumphs of Nassau 238 Through the Town runnes a small shallow riuulet which descends from the neighbour mountaines.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 420 By Fountain or by shadie Rivulet He sought them both. View more context for this quotation1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iii. 36 The Dews and Rains..are conveyed in small Rivulets towards the middle.1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 320 These clouds feed the rivulets which run from the hills.1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul i. iii. 118 The water of the lake is salt, as is that of some of the rivulets which join it.1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 364 He discovered one of the sources of the Ogowé at a point where it formed a mere rivulet of water.1922 M. Moore Let. 18 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 190 It was on a ledge of rock below a water-fall; it raised its head snake-charmer fashion and gradually slid over the ledge on which the fall struck to a small pool and rivulet below.a1963 T. Roethke Coll. Poems (1968) 11 The water stored in narrow pools escapes In rivulets; the cold roots stir below.2004 A. Oz Tale of Love & Darkness xxxv. 272 In the valleys,..springs, streams, and rivulets were constantly gushing, babbling, and purling.
b. In extended use.
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α.
1624 R. Bellings Sixth Bk. Arcadia 59 Fluento..entred the lists, mounted on a bay Courser, whose armour all over represented a greene Plaine, through wch ran little rivelets of bloud.
1637 Earl of Monmouth tr. V. Malvezzi Romulus & Tarquin 76 Rome is a little Rivelet, our people like torrents flocke thither.
1660 W. Winstanley England's Worthies Ep. Ded. 4 A Nobler confluence of so many Loyal Purple Rivelets of Honour.
1700 E. Taylor Poems (1989) 146 A Glorious Heade of Choicest influence More rich than Rubies, golden rivlets lie Convaying Grace along these channells thence To heart, hand, foot, head, [etc.].
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 33 Trace these briny Riv'lets to their Springs. Our Funeral Tears, from Different Causes, rise.
1997 S. Walker Nights of Ice 127 He could feel icy rivelets of seawater seeping in around the rim of the hood encircling his face.
2008 A. Brennan Tempting Evil xix. 275 Aaron's breath quickened as he watched the blood ooze in rivlets down the side of the sink.
β. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. B4 The woman ceased not from streaming foorth riuolets of teares.1600 Looke about You L Looke how the furrowes of his aged cheeke Fild with the reuolets of wet eyde mone.1639 G. Digby in G. Digby & K. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 86 There cannot be admitted..unto the avowed channell of the Church, any corrupt Rivolet of erroneous Doctrine.1671 W. Penn Truth Rescued 60 England's Fountain of Iustice was clear and wholesom, although the Rivolets or lesser Streams might be troubled.1701 Eng. Gent. Justified i. 10 Debts are more easy paid, and Rents come in, And Circulate in Rivolets agin.γ. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie xiii. 29 His Temple [i.e. head], Vein'd euery whear with azure rivulets, Whom all the people..With boughs and flowrie garlands doe adorne.1638 A. Hodges tr. Achilles Tatius Loves of Clitophon & Leucippe i. 24 In the midst of the flowers sprang up a fountaine, which was first received in a fouresquare bason, and running from thence it fed a little rivulet.1698 tr. C. de Acuña Relation Great River Amazons iv. 11 in Voy. & Discov. S.-Amer. i They had Rivulets to swim over, must go up-hill and down-hill in uneven ways.1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 376 Steel..causes the Blood to run..through all the minutest Canals and Rivulets of the Body.1758 S. Johnson Idler 27 May 57 The rivulets of knowledge, which are continually trickling among us.1804 J. Morse & E. Parish Compend. Hist. New Eng. xiv. 184 The darkness of the forest, the blaze of the dwellings, the rivulets of blood, the ghastly looks of the dead.1860 C. Sangster Hesperus 44 A rivulet of song..Welled free and sparkling.1904 Times 2 Nov. 6/2 A rivulet of ‘story’ meanders through a meadow of ‘Shawisms’.1955 A. MacLean H.M.S. Ulysses iii. 70 The condensation on the bulkheads sent a thousand little rivulets to pool on the corticene floor.2004 J. Long Reckoning xxv. 167 Rain fell in rivulets from the canopy.
2. Entomology. Any of several small Eurasian geometrid moths of the genera Perizoma and Discoloxia, typically having brownish forewings with white wavy markings. Frequently with distinguishing word.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > member of genus Emmelesia
rivulet1809
1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 335 (The Rivulet) alis fulvo-fuscis, fusco undatium substrigatis.
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 137 The Rivulet..appears in June on shrubs.
1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 208 Fig. 4 represents bifasciata (..the Double-barred Rivulet), and Fig. 5 depicts unifasciata (the Single-barred Rivulet).
1967 E. B. Ford Moths (ed. 2) xii. 180 An exceptionally white form of the Grass Rivulet is not uncommon in Lewis.
1986 M. Chinery Insects Brit. & W. Europe 178 Rivulet Perizoma affinitatum... In rough grassy places.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as rivulet bank, rivulet bed, rivulet side, etc.
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1657 E. Calamy Godly Mans Ark v. 149 Some are Original, Fundamental, and Fountain-Promises (as the promise of Jesus Christ, of God being our God, and of the Holy Ghost.) Others are derivative, depending, and rivolet-promises, (as the promises of all outward comforts here, and of eternal life hereafter.)
1744 J. Wilson Synopsis Brit. Plants 10 By the rivulet side.
1811 W. Cooke Thames I. 1* b From its source it flows on in a rivulet character, till it reaches Cricklade.
1975 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 119 291/2 Site 28 lies on a low terrace at the southern base of the eastern hill, and extends across a larger-than-average rivulet bed.
1999 A. Schwabe in A. Kratochwil Biodiversity in Ecosyst. ii. 85 (caption) Spatial arrangements of habitats on a rivulet bank in the Black Forest.
2006 A. Ataki et al. in E. Sørensen Distillation & Absorption l. 537 Rivulet flow on an inclined plate.
C2. In names of fishes and other animals inhabiting small streams, as rivulet carp, rivulet dipper, rivulet salmon. Obsolete.
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1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 65 Rivulet Salmon [sc. Salmo Rivalis].
1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 245 Rivulet Carp [sc. Cyprinus Rivularis].
1819 W. Turton Conchol. Dict. Brit. Islands 27 Bulla fluviatilis. Rivulet Dipper... Shell oval, smooth, glossy, brittle, horn-color.
1836 N. Wood Brit. Song Birds 38 The neighbourhood of Buxton is also favourable to the Rivulet Dipper, and Pied Flycatcher.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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