Stream

:''For other meanings of the word ''"stream"'' see Stream (disambiguation).'' The primary meaning of stream is a body of water, confined within a stream bed and banks and having a detectable current (water). Stream is the umbrella term used in the scientific community for all flowing natural waters. ==Types of water streams== * ''river'' - a large natural stream, which may be a ''waterway''. *''creek'' North American usage: - a small natural stream. Rarely navigable and may be intermittent. *Creek (tidal) British and Indian usage: - a tidal inlet, typically in a saltmarsh or Mangrove. Alternatively, between enclosed and drained, former saltmarshes or swamps. In these cases, the stream is the Tide stream, the course of the sea-water through the creek channel on each of the flood and ebb. * ''tributary'' - a contributory stream - a stream that does not reach the sea but joins another river (a ''parent river''). Sometimes also called a ''branch''. * ''brook'' - a small stream. ==Parts of a stream== * ''confluence'' - the point at which the two streams merge. If the two tributaries are of approximately equal size, the confluence may be called a ''fork''. * ''run'' - a fairly smooth flowing segment of the stream * ''pool'' - a segment where the water is deeper and slower moving * ''riffle'' - a segment where the flow is shallower and more turbulent * ''source'' - the spring from which the stream originates or other point of origin of a stream. * ''headwater'' (commonly used in the plural where there is no single point source) - the part of a stream or river, close to its source. * ''channel'' - a depression created by constant erosion, that carries the stream's flow * ''floodplain'' - flatlands on either side of the stream that are subject to seasonal flooding * ''bed'' - the bottom of the stream * ''mouth'' - the point at which the stream discharges into a more static body of water such as a lake or ocean * ''thalweg'' - the river's profile (see below). The line joining the deepest point in the channel at each stage from source to mouth. The river's longitudinal section. * ''wetted perimeter'' - the line on which the stream's surface meets the channel walls ==Intermittent and ephemeral streams==

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that crosses between two other bodies of water. This may be US usage but it certainly is not of the UK. (thus \"brooking\" them) The stream brook derives from Anglo-Saxon ��broc��. The acceptance verb derives from AS ��brucan��. There seems to be little connection. Also the Scottish term for a creek. It is not particularly Scottish. And has to do with creek only in the US usage. (User:RJP 08:43, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC))

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