英语词汇“runnels”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	runnels
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 runnels noun plural of runnel as in brooks 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 brooks creeks rivulets rills streamlets streams tributaries bourns becks runs canals burns bournes bayous brooklets gills arroyos freshets runlets coulees watercourses sloughs washes runoffs freshes billabongs channels waterways races distributaries slews slues cutoffs branches millraces millstreams affluents guts kills influents cuts confluents
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runnel

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