Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The area between the banks of a river ordinarily covered by water.
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- noun The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the
bottom earthen part of a river, not including theriverbanks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river
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Examples
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When the trucks do take it away, I’ve heard rumors that it’s thrown in the river (which, if you’ve seen the riverbed, is not too difficult to believe).
Jenni's life at the moment Jenni's life at the moment 2008
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When the trucks do take it away, I’ve heard rumors that it’s thrown in the river (which, if you’ve seen the riverbed, is not too difficult to believe).
Archive 2008-08-01 Jenni's life at the moment 2008
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To reach the valley floor, you descend concrete steps that lead to the shingle riverbed, which is crossed by a small footbridge.
Haiti survivor, Wilson Octaveus: 'This is my wife's head. It has been eaten by dogs' 2010
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The part that had felt like a riverbed was a riverbed.
Echo Burning Child, Lee 2001
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As unlikely as it may look, since the only known sightings of tribbles have been in spaceship environs, the riverbed is the preferred natural habitat of tribbles.
Star Trek Michael Jan Friedman 1999
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"Because the riverbed is the Chuitna is privately owned, walking, wading or standing on the riverbed is also considered trespassing," says a Tyonek Native Corp.
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The Daily Telegraph claimed that harnessing the power of fish swimming through a river could hold the key to meeting Britain's future electricity needs and that installing electric prongs along the riverbed was the way forward.
Shiny Shiny 2009
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That groove on the riverbed is a pair of 24-inch gas mains, laid down in the fifties, that-believe it or not-constitute the business end of a network of pipes that runs all the way from the Gulf of Mexico.
How Now Brownpau 2009
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The Daily Telegraph claimed that harnessing the power of fish swimming through a river could hold the key to meeting Britain's future electricity needs and that installing electric prongs along the riverbed was the way forward.
Shiny Shiny 2009
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March 10 (ANI): A new American research has revealed that an ancient "riverbed" in Mars was not made by the flow of water but was carved by molten lava.
Jubjub commented on the word riverbed
What an interesting word! Why bed? Sure, the water lies there, but it also runs there as well. Might as well be rivertrack. But it's not-- and I think it shouldn't be. I wonder how this concept is played out in other languages.
December 22, 2009