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ˈrɪv ərzrivers

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Wikipedia

  1. rivers

    A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater stream, flowing on the surface or inside underground caves towards another waterbody at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, sea, bay, lake, wetland or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground or becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and Northeast England, and "beck" in Northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are an important part of the water cycle. Water from a drainage basin generally collects into a river through surface runoff from precipitation, meltwater released from natural ice and snowpacks, and other underground sources such as groundwater recharge and springs. Rivers are often considered major features within a landscape; however, they actually only cover around 0.1% of the land on Earth. Rivers are significant to mankind since many human settlements and civilizations are built around sizeable rivers and streams. Most of the major cities of the world are situated on the banks of rivers, as they are (or were) depended upon as a vital source of drinking water, for food supply via fishing and agricultural irrigation, for shipping, as natural borders and/or defensive terrains, as a source of hydropower to drive machinery or generate electricity, for bathing, and as a means of disposing of waste. In the pre-industrial era, larger rivers were a major obstacle to movement of people, goods, and armies across regions. Towns often developed at the few locations suitable for fording, to build bridges or to support ports, and many major cities such as London are located at the narrowest and most reliable site at which a river could be crossed via bridges or ferries.In Earth science disciplines, potamology is the scientific study of rivers, while limnology is the study of inland waters in general.

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  1. Rivers

    Rivers is a town in the Canadian province of Manitoba located 40 kilometres northwest of Brandon. Rivers had a population of 1,193 people in the 2006 census. Rivers was named in 1908 after Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, Chairman of the Board of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. It is 473 metres above sea level, and is entirely encircled by the Rural Municipality of Daly in the Westman Region. Agriculture, Health and related businesses provide economics for the community and area. The local schools fall under the Rolling River School Division, with a Nursery School, Rivers Elementary school, and Rivers Collegiate Institute. New playground equipment was installed in 2010 at the Rivers Elementary School and is put to good use by the whole community. The high school is a "Pay It Forward" school and works on programs to do just that. For decades Rivers Collegiate has been praised for its outstanding sports programs, including volleyball, basketball, and baseball. Nearby is Lake Wahtopanah. This lake is a part of the Rivers Provincial Park and provides good fishing both summer and winter. There are many campsites to be rented and walking trails, miniature golf or a delicious ice cream help pass those summer vacation days. Depending on the season, you will see a variety of users on the lake from swimming, waterskiing, sailing, to snowmobiling and ice fishing. There are permanent cottages and homes on both sides of the lake. With its length of 13 km, there is room for everyone.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Rivers

    Large natural streams of FRESH WATER formed by converging tributaries and which empty into a body of water (lake or ocean).

Editors Contribution

  1. riversnoun

    Plural noun of river.

    The rivers all met at one source to enter the sea.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 8, 2016  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RIVERS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rivers is ranked #897 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Rivers surname appeared 38,662 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 13 would have the surname Rivers.

    50.9% or 19,691 total occurrences were Black.
    40.4% or 15,647 total occurrences were White.
    3.4% or 1,315 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.6% or 1,021 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.9% or 754 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.6% or 236 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'rivers' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4507

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rivers in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rivers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of rivers in a Sentence

  1. Paul Rhode:

    We need to keep the locks running, a lot of people are dependent on the rivers for their livelihood.

  2. Marybeth Arcodia:

    Atmospheric rivers typically form during the winter months and can occur during El Niños or La Niñas.

  3. National Weather Service:

    Many areas from Louisiana up toward Missouri and into Illinois saw rainfall totals over 7 inches( with some localized amounts up to a foot) fall within 48 hours. Currently there are 21 million under a flood watch or warning from eastern Oklahoma up into Indiana, many of the rivers in these states have crested or( are) nearing crest and remain in moderate or major flood category. Many roads across this region are closed because of the flooding.

  4. Eric Ahasic:

    Minneapolis had their third-snowiest winter on record, so a lot of it was sitting around waiting to melt, we didn’t really add a ton of heavy rain on top of the snowpack while that snow was melting, so that kind of allowed it to progress fairly orderly, but we’re going to have some minor flooding in a lot of rivers.

  5. Scott C. Holstad:

    She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death.

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