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BRAIDED STREAM

Specialty Definition: BRAIDED STREAM

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Geography

Stream that divides into or follows an interlacting or tangled network of several small branching and reuniting shallow channels separated from each other by branch islands or channel bars, resembling in plan the strands of a complex braid. Source: European Union. (references)
 A river characterized by a wide and shallow open channel in which flow passes through a number of small interlaced channels. Source: European Union. (references)

Hydrologic

Characterized by successive division and rejoining of streamflow with accompanying islands. A braided stream is composed of anabranches. (references)

Mining

A stream that divides into an interlacing or tangled network of several small branching and reuniting shallow channels separated from each other by branch islands or channel bars, resembling in plan the strands of a complex braid. Such an anastomosing stream is generally believed to indicate an inability to carry all of its load, such as an overloaded andaggrading stream flowing in a wide channel on a flood plain. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BRAIDED STREAM

Language Translations for "BRAIDED STREAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

forgrenet vandløb (anastomosing stream). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vlechtende rivier (anastomosing stream, braided river), verwilderde rivier (anastomosing stream). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

palmikkojoki (anastomosing stream). (various references)

   

French

  

rivière ramifiée (braided river), rivière en tresse (braided river), rivière anastomosée (braided river), réseau anastomosé. (various references)

   

German

  

verzweigter Fluss (braided river), verästelter Fluss (braided river), Stromgeflecht (anastomosing stream). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναστομωμένος ποταμός (anastomosing stream). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fiume ramificato (braided river), fiume intrecciato (braided river), corso d'acqua intrecciato (anastomosing stream). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aidedbray eamstray

   

Portuguese

  

rio anastomosado (anastomosing stream, braided river). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

braided stream (anastomosing stream), curso de agua anastomizante (anastomosing stream), curso anastomosado (anastomosing stream), corriente fluvial dendrítica (anastomosing stream), canal trenzado (anastomosing stream). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flätflod (anastomosing stream, bayou, braided river). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BRAIDED STREAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-e-e-i-m-r-r-s-t"

-3 letters: desiderata, dramatised, reradiated, reradiates.

-4 letters: aberrated, airstream, bestirred, deadbeats, demeraras, dermestid, diameters, disbarred, dramatise, dramedies, dreamiest, dreariest, eradiated, eradiates, redbaited, redbreast, reedbirds, reradiate, streambed, streamier.

-5 letters: abraders, adamsite, admirers, airdates, ambaries, amberies, amirates, amreetas, arbiters, arrested, arteries, barmaids, barmiest, bartered, beadiest, beamiest, bedmates, bedstead, bedtimes, bemisted, bestride, bimester, birdseed, bistered, braiders, breasted, dataries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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