creek 音标拼音: [kr'ik]
n . 小溪,小河,小湾
小溪,小河,小湾
creek n 1 :
a natural stream of water smaller than a river (
and often a tributary of a river ); "
the creek dried up every summer "
[
synonym : {
brook }, {
creek }]
2 :
any member of the Creek Confederacy (
especially the Muskogee )
formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma Creeks \
Creeks \ (
kr [=
e ]
ks ),
n .
pl .;
sing . {
Creek }. (
Ethnol .)
A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians ,
including the Muskogees ,
Seminoles ,
Uchees ,
and other subordinate tribes .
They formerly inhabited Georgia ,
Florida ,
and Alabama .
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Creek \
Creek \ (
kr [=
e ]
k ),
n . [
AS .
crecca ;
akin to D .
kreek ,
Icel .
kriki crack ,
nook ;
cf .
W .
crig crack ,
crigyll ravine ,
creek .
Cf . {
Crick }, {
Crook }.]
1 .
A small inlet or bay ,
narrower and extending further into the land than a cove ;
a recess in the shore of the sea ,
or of a river .
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Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore .
--
Cowper .
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They discovered a certain creek ,
with a shore .
--
Acts xxvii .
39 .
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2 .
A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook .
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Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks .
--
Goldsmith .
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3 .
Any turn or winding .
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The passages of alleys ,
creeks ,
and narrow lands .
--
Shak .
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94 Moby Thesaurus words for "
creek ":
adolescent stream ,
arm ,
armlet ,
arroyo ,
bay ,
bayou ,
beck ,
belt ,
bight ,
boca ,
bourn ,
braided stream ,
branch ,
brook ,
brooklet ,
burn ,
channel ,
cove ,
crawl ,
creep ,
crick ,
ditch ,
edge ,
estuary ,
euripus ,
fjord ,
flowing stream ,
fluviation ,
fresh ,
freshet ,
frith ,
gill ,
glide ,
gulf ,
gumshoe ,
gut ,
harbor ,
inch ,
inlet ,
kill ,
kyle ,
lazy stream ,
loch ,
lurk ,
meandering stream ,
midchannel ,
midstream ,
millstream ,
mouse ,
mouth ,
moving road ,
narrow ,
narrow seas ,
narrows ,
natural harbor ,
navigable river ,
pussyfoot ,
race ,
racing stream ,
reach ,
rill ,
river ,
rivulet ,
road ,
roads ,
roadstead ,
run ,
rundle ,
runlet ,
runnel ,
shirk ,
sike ,
skulk ,
slide ,
slink ,
slip ,
slither ,
snake ,
sneak ,
sniggle ,
sound ,
spill stream ,
steal ,
strait ,
straits ,
stream ,
stream action ,
streamlet ,
subterranean river ,
tiptoe ,
wadi ,
watercourse ,
waterway ,
wriggle CREEK ,
mar .
law .
Creeks are of two kinds ,
viz .
creeks of the sea and creeks of ports .
The former sorts are such little inlets of the sea whether within the precinct or extent of a ,
port or without ,
which are narrow little passages and have shore on either side of them .
The latter ,
Viz .
breaks of ports ,
are by a kind of civil denomination such .
They are such ,
that though possibly for their extent and .
situation they might be ports ,
yet they are either members of or dependent upon other ports .
In England it began thus :
the king ,
could not conveniently have a customer and comptroller in every port or haven .
But these custom officers were fixed at some eminent port ;
and the smaller adjacent ports became by that means creeks ,
or appendants .
of that where these custom officers were placed .
1 Chit .
Com .
Law ,
726 ;
Hale '
s Tract .
de Portibus Maris ,
part 2 ,
c .
1 ,
vol .
1 ,
p .
46 ;
Com .
Dig .
Navigation ,
C ;
Callis ,
34 .
2 .
In a more popular sense ,
creek signifies a small stream ,
less than a river .
12 Pick .
R .
184 ,
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