| 释义 |
riv·er
I. \ˈrivə(r)\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English rivere, river, from Old French rivere, riviere riverbank, land along a river, river, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin riparia, from Latin, feminine of riparius riparian, from ripa bank, shore + -arius -ary — more at rive
1.
a. : a natural surface stream of water of considerable volume and permanent or seasonal flow
< river channel >
< river gravel >
< river engineer >
— compare brook, creek
b. : watercourse
< dry river >
< underground river >
c. : estuary, tidal river
< York River, Va. >
< Neponset River, Mass. >
also : inlet, strait
< East River, N.Y. >
< Sakonnet River, R.I. >
< Indian River, Fla. >
2.
a. : something resembling a river
< river of ice >
< river of air >
< rivers of lava glow an angry red — Read Magazine >
< the enormous oceanic river of the Gulf Stream — Marjory S. Douglas >
< costumes … made a rippling, many-colored river of the street — H.A.Sinclair >
< the never-failing river of student life — J.B.Conant >
b. rivers plural : copious flow : large or overwhelming quantities : outpouring
< rivers of birds pouring against the sunset back to the rookeries — Marjory S. Douglas >
< rain, pouring down through the blackness in solid rivers — C.S.Forester >
< rivers of print that gushed forth about her — Mollie Panter-Downes >
< drank rivers of coffee >
3. : a pure-white diamond of very high grade occasionally with a prismatic blue radiance
4. : a white typically irregular streak or area running through several lines of close-set printed matter and caused by a series of wide spaces that appear to form a continuous line — called also channel, gutter, staircase
•
- down the river
- up the river
II. \ˈrīvə(r)\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, one that rives, from riven to rive + -er — more at rive
: one that rives; specifically : a worker who splits blocks of wood with a froe to make pickets, posts, or rails |