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| a scraped spot or area; the result of rubbing or abrading: |
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| a fan-shaped alluvial deposit formed by a stream where its velocity is abruptly decreased, as at the mouth of a ravine or at the foot of a mountain. |
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| the lowest level to which running water can erode the land. |
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| the sand, gravel, boulders, or other debris transported by rolling or sliding along the bottom of a stream. |
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| The power a current has to carry rocks, and other minerals across the bottom. |
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| | a nearly flat plain of alluvial deposit between diverging branches of the mouth of a river, often, though not necessarily, triangular: the Nile delta. |
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| a relieving, ridding, or getting rid of something of the nature of a charge. |
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| to separate or part from something else; sunder; cut off. |
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| [image]drainage basin or watershed |
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| the region or area drained by a river, stream, etc.; drainage area. |
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| a sudden and destructive rush of water down a narrow gully or over a sloping surface, caused by heavy rainfall. |
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| a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding. |
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| a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains. |
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| The backwards erosion of material at the source (start) of a river or stream |
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An embankment raised to prevent a river from overflowing. |
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| to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley. |
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| a U-shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke. |
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| a more or less cylindrical hole formed in rock by the grinding action of the detrital material in eddying water. |
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| the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution. |
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| A stream can be defined as any flowing body of water in a clearly defined channel. |
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| the state in which the particles of a substance are mixed with a fluid but are undissolved. |
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a transverse gap in a mountain ridge, cut by and giving passage to a stream or river.
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