watercourse

«watercourse» in Mova's school dictionary: any channel that water flows along, like a river, stream… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a watercourse, watercourses)

meaning for a pupil

A watercourse is any channel that water flows along, like a river, stream, brook, ditch or canal. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons on rivers and the water cycle, watercourses carry rainwater to the sea; maps show them as blue lines. In safety and environment lessons, polluting a watercourse harms fish and is against the law. Phrases: «a natural watercourse», «along the watercourse», «pollution of watercourses».

examples

• A small watercourse runs along the bottom of the field. tree →
• Farmers must not let chemicals get into watercourses. tree →
• The map shows every watercourse as a thin blue line. tree →
• Willows grow along the banks of the watercourse. tree →
• After heavy rain, the dry watercourse filled with water. tree →
• Australian creeks can be dry watercourses for much of the year. tree →

note

One word. Countable. A rather formal or technical word used in geography, law and maps; everyday talk says «stream», «river», «creek» (US, Australia, New Zealand) or «burn» (Scotland).

In the corpora

• And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
• The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever He will.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «watercourse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.