river

Nghĩa

Noun

1. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
2. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
3. The last card dealt in a hand.
4. A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

Verb

To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

Được gạch nối như

riv‧er

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ˈɹɪvə/

Từ nguyên

From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.

Câu

They rented a boat and went down the river .

Họ thuê một chiếc thuyền và đi xuống sông.

The Schlitterbahn Water Park is built along a stretch of the river .

Công viên nước Schlitterbahn được xây dựng dọc theo một đoạn sông.