What's the difference between creek and inlet?

Creek


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
  • (n.) Any turn or winding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
  • (2) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
  • (3) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
  • (4) In the 19th century, Newtown Creek was a centre for oil refining and other industries, which left behind a massive oil plume.
  • (5) No brown bullheads of ages 6 or 7 were collected in the Black River, while these age groups composed 18% of the catch in Old Woman Creek.
  • (6) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
  • (7) No hepatic neoplasms were observed in fish that had been treated with sediment extract from Oakville Creek, or with extract from a reference sediment.
  • (8) Cheyenne-Arapaho, Comanche and Kiowa areas (located in the western++ part of the state) have higher alcohol-related deaths than Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole and Pawnee areas (located in eastern Oklahoma).
  • (9) P. aeruginosa was detected and recovered from all creek water and wastewater samples, but not from tap water samples tested.
  • (10) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
  • (11) Production of Kanagawa haemolysin was detected in approximately 12% and 20% of strains isolated from sediments and C. retropictus respectively at two stations in Hashizu Creek but were not detected at the other three stations.
  • (12) Amardeep Singh, of the Sikh Coalition, thanked Oak Creek's citizens for turning out in solidarity.
  • (13) He's introduced by his roommates to beautiful, mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young, and the story progresses, mostly centered around Miles' life at Culver Creek and his growing attachment to Alaska.
  • (14) Although considerable differences were noted between successive tidal cycles, overall the creek was found to be an exporting system and transported a mean concentration of ATP (-33g), chlorophyll a (-66g), particulate organic carbon (-31kg), total suspended material (-344kg), and fixed suspended material (-195kg) during each tidal cycle.
  • (15) Over the next year he filled a conference room at the Johns Creek station with boxes of police reports, victim affidavits, and audio recordings.
  • (16) Histopathological investigations of taste organs of loaches (Noemacheilus barbatulus, L.) taken from creeks with differing grades of pollution demonstrate variable degrees of damage to taste bud structures.
  • (17) Swing by its tasting room and you can try Burnley Bastard Mild brewed by Real Cask, or Nonsensical – an IPA from Brewery Creek.
  • (18) The creek was 10ft above flood stage, spilling floodwaters that almost reached the stoplights at a four-lane intersection.
  • (19) Some of the oil remains trapped beneath the frozen creek.
  • (20) Police said Sunday that the body of Chris Kyle was found by officers responding to an incident at the Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose the previous evening.

Inlet


Definition:

  • (n.) A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance.
  • (n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.
  • (n.) That which is let in or inland; an inserted material.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ventricular septal defect types were perimembranous (six), malalignment (seven), supracristal (three), midmuscular (one), and inlet (one).
  • (2) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
  • (3) Fourteen patients with double inlet left ventricle and nine patients with tricuspid atresia had biplane left ventricular angiography with simultaneous measurement of left ventricular pressure by micromanometer.
  • (4) Though thyrotoxicosis caused by amiodarone is recognised, to our knowledge thoracic inlet compression has not been previously described.
  • (5) It is only useful when there is doubt and in this case both a lateral and an antero-posterior film are necessary as the obstetric conjugate alone was unreliable in predicting the transverse diameter of the inlet as well as the outcome.
  • (6) The overall productivity of the reactor is a function of the flow rate and the inlet glucose concentration.
  • (7) In this article the concept of utilizing a pinched inlet channel for field-flow fractionation (FFF), in which the channel thickness is reduced over a substantial inlet segment to reduce relaxation effects and avoid stopflow, is evaluated for steric FFF using one conventional channel and two pinched inlet channels.
  • (8) To better understand the mechanism of cerebral blood flow during CPR in humans, we determined the aortic-carotid artery pressure difference, the cephalic perfusion pressure (the carotid artery-jugular vein pressure difference), and thoracic inlet venous "valving" (the central venous-jugular vein pressure difference), while administering standard doses of epinephrine.
  • (9) A small bolus of each of the tracer gases was injected within 1 ms into a constant airflow at the inlet of the model, and the bolus dispersion curve was measured at the outlet by means of a mass spectrometer.
  • (10) Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was performed in 27 mongrel adult dogs employing a V-V bypass between the proximal region of the inferior vena cava, used as a blood outlet, and the external jugular vein, used as a blood inlet, in order to investigate the decrease in leukocytes and the change in leukotriene B4 (LTB4) caused by ECMO.
  • (11) Fourthly, the atrioventricular connection is determined as follows: (1) usual alignment, (2) criss-crossing, (3) straddling, (4) double inlet, and (5) unilateral atrioventricular valve atresia, by using an apical four-chamber echo view.
  • (12) Consequently, solutes locally introduced at the inlet of the column are subjected to an efficient partition process in each partition unit and separated according to their partition coefficients.
  • (13) This was examined by mass spectrometry using direct inlet technique, but no free cholic acid could be identified.
  • (14) The case of a 5-month-old girl with a large neuroblastoma of the thoracic inlet, an unusual location for this tumor, is presented.
  • (15) The neoplasms were single, multilobulated, encapsulated masses in the anterior mediastinum or thoracic inlet.
  • (16) The area close to the inlet is the most severely affected.
  • (17) A 5-year-old boy with double inlet left ventricle and ventriculoarterial discordance (SDD type) underwent ventricular septation with arterial switch procedure.
  • (18) TCC differed from C3a and C5a in the following respects: (i) lower detection limit (4 x 10(-11) vs. less than 5 x 10(-9) M for both C-anaphylatoxins); (ii) higher relative increment (inlet) during CU dialysis (25-fold vs. eightfold and twofold, respectively); (iii) C-anaphylatoxins yielded the same ranking (CU much greater than HE greater than PS), but TCC concentrations were not a linear function of C3a or C5a concentrations, respectively.
  • (19) This paper describes a pathological specimen of double-inlet right ventricle in which no remains of a hypoplastic left ventricle were found.
  • (20) Surgical mortality of the Fontan procedure for tricuspid atresia and double-inlet left ventricle is now less than 10%, and that, plus these late results, justify continued application of this operation in patients with these lesions.