WATERWAY Synonyms
There are 3 hypernyms of the word waterway. (close relations)
waterways
Best Alternative Words for WATERWAY
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watercourse | nounn | |||||||
noun • natural or artificial channel through which water flows • a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth • a conduit through which water flows | ||||||||
brook | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) verb • put up with something or somebody unpleasant | ||||||||
canal | nounn | |||||||
noun • (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation verb • provide (a city) with a canal | ||||||||
channel | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a path over which electrical signals can pass • a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through • a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) • a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels • (often plural) a means of communication or access • a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance • a television station and its programs • a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors verb • transmit or serve as the medium for transmission • direct the flow of • send from one person or place to another | ||||||||
creek | nounn | |||||||
noun • a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) • any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma | ||||||||
estuary | nounn | |||||||
noun • the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix | ||||||||
fjord | nounn | |||||||
noun • a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway | ||||||||
inlet | nounn | |||||||
noun • an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) • an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | ||||||||
lagoon | nounn | |||||||
noun • a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | ||||||||
lake | nounn | |||||||
noun • a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land • a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal • any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments | ||||||||
loch | nounn | |||||||
noun • a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked) • Scottish word for a lake | ||||||||
pond | nounn | |||||||
noun • a small lake | ||||||||
reservoir | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a large or extra supply of something • lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water • tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) • anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | ||||||||
river | nounn | |||||||
noun • a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) | ||||||||
sound | verb, noun, adjectivev, n, adj | |||||||
adjective • financially secure and safe • in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay noun • the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause • the subjective sensation of hearing something • mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium • the sudden occurrence of an audible event • the audible part of a transmitted signal • (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language • a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water • a large ocean inlet or deep bay adjective satellite • exercising or showing good judgment • in excellent physical condition • logically valid • having legal efficacy or force • vigorous or severe • free from moral defect • (of sleep) deep and complete • complete; thorough verb • appear in a certain way • make a certain noise or sound • give off a certain sound or sounds • announce by means of a sound • utter with vibrating vocal chords • cause to sound • measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | ||||||||
strait | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||||
noun • a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water • a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs adjective satellite • narrow | ||||||||
stream | verb, noun, adjectivev, n, adj | |||||||
noun • a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth • dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas • the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression • something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously • a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) verb • to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind • exude profusely • move in large numbers • rain heavily • flow freely and abundantly |