英语词汇“runnel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Example Sentences

the fugitive made use of local runnels to throw the bloodhounds off his scent

Recent Examples on the Web Designed by Louis Kahn for Jonas Salk, who created the polio vaccine, the complex sits on a shelf above the Pacific, a symmetrical white piazza flanked by buildings that are angled like a theater’s wings and bisected by a narrow runnel.

Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021 The road ran like a twisty runnel through fuchsia hedges and bright fields of buttercups and cow parsley, up to a pass among the 3,000-foot Slieve Mish mountains.

New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019 In summer, runoff from cloudbursts etches into the softer limestones and sluices through the deep runnels.

National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019 Grouting crews fan out across the subways every night, looking for runnels down walls and stalactites of muck oozing from ceilings, patching up incursions that are closest to electrical components first.

Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018

Word History

Etymology

alteration of Middle English rinel, from Old English rynel; akin to Old English rinnan to run — more at run

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

单词	runnel
释义	runnel noun run·nel ˈrə-nᵊl : rivulet, streamlet Synonyms beck [British] bourn bourne brook brooklet burn [British] creek gill [British] rill rivulet run [chiefly Midland] runlet streamlet See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences the fugitive made use of local runnels to throw the bloodhounds off his scent Recent Examples on the Web Designed by Louis Kahn for Jonas Salk, who created the polio vaccine, the complex sits on a shelf above the Pacific, a symmetrical white piazza flanked by buildings that are angled like a theater’s wings and bisected by a narrow runnel. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021 The road ran like a twisty runnel through fuchsia hedges and bright fields of buttercups and cow parsley, up to a pass among the 3,000-foot Slieve Mish mountains. New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019 In summer, runoff from cloudbursts etches into the softer limestones and sluices through the deep runnels. National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019 Grouting crews fan out across the subways every night, looking for runnels down walls and stalactites of muck oozing from ceilings, patching up incursions that are closest to electrical components first. Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018 Word History Etymology alteration of Middle English rinel, from Old English rynel; akin to Old English rinnan to run — more at run First Known Use before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above runnel noun as in creek a natural body of running water smaller than a river the fugitive made use of local runnels to throw the bloodhounds off his scent Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance creek brook rivulet streamlet stream rill brooklet tributary bourn canal bourne gill burn beck bayou runoff run coulee slough watercourse arroyo wash freshet millrace millstream waterway fresh runlet channel distributary billabong race slew branch kill cutoff slue cut influent affluent confluent gut
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runnel

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