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MOUNTAIN STREAM

Specialty Definition: MOUNTAIN STREAM

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Geography

A natural watercourse with a steep slope and with rapid and highly variable discharge, which can transport large volumes of sediment. Source: European Union. (references)
 A stream of water flowing with great velocity or turbulence, as during a freshet or down a steep incline. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: MOUNTAIN STREAM

English words defined with "MOUNTAIN STREAM": running. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MOUNTAIN STREAM

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Books

  • The Biogeochemistry of mountain stream waters : the Marmot system : a report (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: MOUNTAIN STREAM

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Photo Album: MOUNTAIN STREAM

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Mountain stream above Mendenhall Glacier. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A cool mountain stream flows through woods in western Maryland. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Recreationalist, Gayle Norman, fly fishing in a mountain stream. Many water managers use NRCS's snow survey data to manage streams for recreation. Credit: Ron Nichols.

Winter scenic view of Mt. Hood, Oregon with mountain stream. Credit: Ron Nichols.

High mountain stream at the head of Big Indian Canyon on Steens Mountain, Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

Mountain stream properly functioning at Blewett Pass, WA. Credit: Unknown.

Trans-Siberian Express speeds eastward beside mountain stream toward Vladivostok. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mountain stream. Placer County, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Willamette National Forest, Lane County, Oregon. Mountain stream and highway. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana. First snow of the season along mountain stream. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MOUNTAIN STREAM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mountain stream

90

mountain stream cabin

4

free mountain stream wallpaper

3

lake mountain stream

2
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Modern Translation: MOUNTAIN STREAM

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

Chinese 

  

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Danish

  

vildbaek (rapid, torrent), fos (torrent), bjergstroem (torrent), bjergflod (torrent). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bergstroom (torrent, volley). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vuoristopuro (torrent). (various references)

   

French

  

torrent (mountain torrent), rivière de montagne. (various references)

   

German

  

Wildbach (torrent), Sturzbach (fast-flowing stream, torrent), Gebirgfluss (torrent), Bergstrom (torrent). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χείμαρρος (torrent). (various references)

   

Italian

  

torrente (Creek, spill, torrent), rio di montagna (torrent). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"流 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

けいりゅう (anchorage, mooring, music suspension). (various references)

   

Manx

  

alt (altitude, alto, glen in mountains, high place). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ountainmay eamstray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

torrente (flux, fresh, gush, river, scat, torrent, volley), rio de montanha (torrent). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

şuvoi de munte. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

torrente (flood, gush, jabber, spate, stream, torrent, volley). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

strucka (rapid, torrent), fors (cataract, rapids, shoot, stream, torrent, waterfall, white water), fall (affair, backfall, case, cases, collapse, descent, downfall, drape, drop, event, fall, fiasco, halliard, halyard, hang, instance, matter, overthrow, set, slope, spill, tumble, undoing, waterfall, wreck). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: MOUNTAIN STREAM

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old English450-1100

fyrgenstream. (various references)

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Anagrams: MOUNTAIN STREAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-m-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: menstruation.

-3 letters: antinatures, maturations, mensuration, natatoriums, numerations, tautomerism, tournaments, tramontanes.

-4 letters: amateurism, ammoniates, antinature, automatism, emanations, instrument, mainstream, maturation, mentations, monetarism, monetarist, natatorium, numeration, nutriments, sanatorium, saturation, senatorian, stentorian, stramonium, tarnations, tournament, tramontane, traumatise, traumatism.

-5 letters: aerations, aeronauts, amarettos, ammoniate, ammonites, anatomies, anatomise, anatomist, animaters, animators, annotates, anointers, antiatoms, antiserum, antitumor, armaments, astronaut, attainers.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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