Brooks are typically smaller and shallower than creeks. Brooks and creeks are two types of streams or moving bodies of water, which are usually smaller than rivers. Although many people assume that these two words are synonyms , there is a distinct difference between brook and creek. Overview and Key Difference 2. What is a Brook 3. What is a Creek 4. Similarities Between Brook and Creek 5. A brook refers to a small stream. It is shallower and smaller than rivers and creeks. The Dutch did not settle New England.
Certainly nothing to say how big a streamlet can be before you call it a stream. And the river where I used to go fishing as a child is definitely a stream today, though I doubt the width, depth, and water flow rate have changed significantly. Pennsylvania has the Schuylkill River. Department of Redundancy Department.
BlueRaja -- kill is pretty common in the NY area. My first impression when I heard then names Catskill and Fishkill , I thought of dead cats and dead fish Run is common in some parts of the U. I pointed these out because these words have common meanings not associated with running water. And who has not heard of the Saint Lawrence Seaway?
And you left off slough which many people won't even know how to pronounce. Sense 3 from Merriam-Webster: a creek in a marsh or tide flat. I think this may be an exclusively American use. Show 5 more comments. Here's a fairly good explanation: The smallest body of water is the brook, a natural stream of water that is found aboveground and is often called a creek as well. Here are the differences as laid out by the Maine Geological Survey : River - a natural freshwater surface stream of considerable volume and a permanent or seasonal flow.
As to your second question, there's also: canal, channel, branch, crik, rivulet, streamlet, brooklet, runlet, runnel, rundle, rindle, beck, gill, burn, sike, freshet, fresh, millstream, race, tributary, feeder, confluent, effluent, billabong, flow, and course of course. Community Bot 1. Callithumpian Callithumpian You learn something new every day! Actually, I really hope someone here can tell me about a river that doesn't flow into another body of water - I bet they exist, but I certainly don't know of any.
Sarcasm duly noted. In Australia during severe drought, some rivers dry up before they reach the ocean eg Murray River but this isn't the normal fate of river. It flows into the desert sands in the flat lands near Casa Grande, Arizona. The Dead Sea is a body of water, so the Jordan doesn't cut it. FumbleFingers, There are many streams and even rivers which flow from surrounding mountains into the Great Basin of the western US. They dry to a trickle and even completely disappear, without flowing into any other body of water.
Show 3 more comments. The confusion comes in "stream". The river is just a large stream in this view. The general words use elsewhere is a watercourse. Problem is that streams can flow underground or even in another body of water, like the Gulf Stream. However, in practice, we use such order: rivers are large bodies of the running water, while the streams are streams smaller. Rivers are usually hard to cross, often are navigable, have bridges across them. What are the rivers? A stream in this sense is something smaller, usually found on hills, often easy to cross.
At what point a stream becomes a river is up to you. Sometimes we use a term rivulet for something in between, although more as a small river. By the same token, we speak about a streamlet. Stream in the sense of a smaller body of the running water could be divided furthermore. A brook is a small stream or rivulet, commonly swiftly flowing in rugged terrain, of lesser length and volume than a creek.
See more about sediment. Some people say: you can step over a brook , jump over a creek , wade across a stream , and swim across a river. The, we hear regional terms and different uses of the already existing brooks and creeks.
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