Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The area between the banks of a river ordinarily covered by water.
Wiktionary
- n. The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river
Examples
“When the trucks do take it away, I’ve heard rumors that it’s thrown in the river (which, if you’ve seen the riverbed, is not too difficult to believe).”
“To reach the valley floor, you descend concrete steps that lead to the shingle riverbed, which is crossed by a small footbridge.”
The Guardian: Haiti survivor, Wilson Octaveus: 'This is my wife's head. It has been eaten by dogs'
“The part that had felt like a riverbed was a riverbed.”
“As unlikely as it may look, since the only known sightings of tribbles have been in spaceship environs, the riverbed is the preferred natural habitat of tribbles.”
“Because the riverbed is the Chuitna is privately owned, walking, wading or standing on the riverbed is also considered trespassing," says a Tyonek Native Corp.”
“The Daily Telegraph claimed that harnessing the power of fish swimming through a river could hold the key to meeting Britain's future electricity needs and that installing electric prongs along the riverbed was the way forward.”
“That groove on the riverbed is a pair of 24-inch gas mains, laid down in the fifties, that-believe it or not-constitute the business end of a network of pipes that runs all the way from the Gulf of Mexico.”
“March 10 (ANI): A new American research has revealed that an ancient "riverbed" in Mars was not made by the flow of water but was carved by molten lava.”
“Washington: A new American research has revealed that an ancient 'riverbed' in Mars was not made by the flow of molten lava.”
“Treating each bed as a canvas, Jill's first collection is filled with light, whimsical line drawings with names like "riverbed", "streamline" and "field day" upon 100\% combed Egyptian cotton, woven with single-ply yarns in a 210-thread-count ...”
Lists
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...yearling, wild celery, Wain, Themis, talon, slither, sedge, sea eagle, scurf, rile, prevaricate, poplar tree and 732 more...
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words I added first
oscular, monozygotic, xiphisternum, lightbox, tympanic, snowshed, riverbed, newborn, stillbirth, whiteness, unkindness, richness and 28 more...
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compound words
My favourites.
birdbath, gallowglass, lamplight, chokecherry, lightbox, riptide, softshoe, snowshed, bluebird, matchbox, sugarcane, nightcap and 64 more...
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april
some words
riverbed, saccades, arcuate, cloud, lights, flutter, electricity, spirals, leaves, sunshine, morendo, silent and 23 more...
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Jubjub What an interesting word! Why bed? Sure, the water lies there, but it also runs there as well. Might as well be rivertrack. But it's not-- and I think it shouldn't be. I wonder how this concept is played out in other languages. Dec 22, 2009