What's the difference between estuary and mouth?

Estuary


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
  • (n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
  • (a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
  • (2) The gradient of increasing copper and zinc concentrations with increasing distance upstream from the mouth of the estuary reported in 1975 could not be statistically validated.
  • (3) However, other unidentified factors appear to influence its presence in certain areas of the estuary.
  • (4) The avian blood fluke, Austrobilharzia terrigalensis (Trematoda: Schistosomatidae), is recorded in Western Australia for the first time, and is implicated as the cause of dermatitis among users of the Swan estuary in Perth.
  • (5) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
  • (6) These hosts were examined from twelve different salt marshes and estuaries around the coasts of France (seven on the Channel, three on the Atlantic Ocean and two on the Mediterranean sea).
  • (7) From tackling harmful chemicals that damage the ozone layer to cracking down on the black-market ivory trade, the UK has a strong track record in driving up environmental standards across Europe.” Environmentalists said they feared a developmental free-for-all on sites shielded by the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme, including Snowdonia, the Lake District, the Thames estuary, the North Yorkshire Moors, Scotland’s Flow Country and Dartmoor.
  • (8) Colloidal organic matter in natural water systems (lakes, rivers, estuaries and the oceans, as well as groundwater) may serve as substrates for the sorption or binding of organic contaminants.
  • (9) Then last year, Shell pulled out of what would be the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Thames estuary.
  • (10) Another of the reports said Heathrow airport would have to close if the estuary scheme went ahead and that Heathrow's owners would have to be paid compensation of between £13.5bn and £21.5bn.
  • (11) The MCS has warned, however, that fragile coastal habitats such as estuaries, saltmarsh and bird sanctuaries are excluded from any proposed new routes.
  • (12) The relative importance of migrating eels and suspended particulate material (biotic and abiotic) as transporters of mirex from Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River Estuary is evaluated in the context of a possible adverse impact on the St. Lawrence beluga population.
  • (13) In 2010, the government rejected a previous proposal for a barrage across the Severn estuary , reiterating plans at the same time to push ahead with Europe's most ambitious fleet of new nuclear reactors .
  • (14) The presence of so many seals is good news for the Thames Estuary, which was declared biologically dead in the 1950s as a result of heavy pollution, but has since largely recovered.
  • (15) The London Array will be built in the outer Thames estuary, 12 miles off the Kent and Essex coasts, and when finished will have 271 turbines across a 90 square mile site.
  • (16) mare and foal left out in todays high tide on loughour estuary The ponies are left unattended during all weather on the loughour estuary, during high tides the foals quite often die.
  • (17) At electoral ward level regression analyses were suggestive of links between AML and higher social class and living close to estuaries.
  • (18) More than a half million pounds of DDT were applied to control mosquitoes in salt marsh estuaries of Cape May County, New Jersey, from 1946 to 1966.
  • (19) The refinery was working largely as usual, with steam pouring from vents on the complex of pipes, chimneys and girders which towers over the flatlands of the Humber estuary's south shore.
  • (20) A small risk of flooding remains in the lower reaches of several slow-moving, major rivers where water from upstream will not finish moving down to estuaries until late on Thursday.

Mouth


Definition:

  • (n.) The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.
  • (n.) An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;
  • (n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.
  • (n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.
  • (n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.
  • (n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
  • (n.) The entrance into a harbor.
  • (n.) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • (n.) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • (n.) Cry; voice.
  • (n.) Speech; language; testimony.
  • (n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • (v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • (v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
  • (v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
  • (v. t.) To make mouths at.
  • (v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
  • (v. i.) To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.
  • (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
  • (2) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
  • (3) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
  • (4) Translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA for extended periods in rabbit reticulocyte lysates results in the appearance of a previously undescribed protein.
  • (5) Measurements of mouth opening were made for up to 10 min after loss of the adductor pollicis twitch and cessation of muscle fasciculations.
  • (6) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
  • (7) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
  • (8) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
  • (9) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
  • (10) Unexpected displacement of the endotracheal tube during anesthesia caused by postural change of the neck or passive compression by the mouth gag was investigated under transluminal fiberoptic observation.
  • (11) Mouth-to-cecum transit, however, does not play a major role in carbohydrate or fat malabsorption in these patients.
  • (12) Although 41% of the participants complained of dry mouth, neither serious adverse effects nor evidence of medication abuse appeared.
  • (13) I opened my eyes and my mouth wide, which made everyone in the audience think I was amazed at what I was seeing.
  • (14) The jaw deviated to the right when he opened his mouth fully.
  • (15) The study supports the view that even a moderate reduction of mouth opening capacity may indicate mandibular dysfunction and we recommend that this variable be routinely recorded.
  • (16) Greatly admired Murdoch is certainly putting his money where his mouth is.
  • (17) The raw air curve is determined by sequentially counting radionuclide activity in respiratory gases sampled at the mouth.
  • (18) The gradient of increasing copper and zinc concentrations with increasing distance upstream from the mouth of the estuary reported in 1975 could not be statistically validated.
  • (19) A certain number of parameters involved in the manufacture, control and use of an efficacious vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease have been studied.
  • (20) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.