What's the difference between flotsam and river?

Flotsam


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Flotson

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Injudicious as Neil Hamilton's misdemeanors were, they were only the flotsam on the tide of Tory sleaze.
  • (2) There are question marks being raised as to whether you could interpret this as being anything other than flotsam,” he said.
  • (3) Succinct tales of fracture and failure, and thumbnail sketches of lonely desperation, positively revelling in the flotsam of American life are all set to jaunty rock and ragtime rhythms.
  • (4) There’s weightier stuff underneath, the post-second-world-war search for meaning of Anderson’s last film The Master washing up here in the flotsam of California’s alternative communities (the director adapted Pynchon’s 2009 novel during a hiatus in development on the earlier work).
  • (5) MH370 search: 'rogue pilot' theory still on Australian investigators' radar Read more Two other pieces of flotsam, found on Réunion and Mozambique , are suspected to come from the plane, but are yet to be positively identified.
  • (6) There's a wood-burning stove, and bits of sculpture everywhere – a couple of large marrows sculpted in brass, another of concrete; a skull with gold-tipped teeth (like Lucas's own, they flash when she smiles); a pair of pert round breasts, perched like jellies atop shelves of music; small casts of her boyfriend Julian Simmons's penis, made for her show Penetralia , which opened in 2008; a big painting by Raymond Pettibon; huge red platform shoes and black fetish boots that she will cast in concrete and show in Krems, Austria in July; a general, seaside sense of driftwood and flotsam.
  • (7) Coastal communities on the US west coast are now discussing what to do with the large quantities of flotsam that could make it ashore in the coming months.
  • (8) A dead pig lolls among the flotsam on South Tarawa beach.
  • (9) He set about interviewing the crossing-sweepers, Punch and Judy entertainers, sandwich-sellers, rag-gatherers, rat-killers, doll's-eye makers, thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and all the other pieces of human flotsam and jetsam that had washed up in the capital.
  • (10) It's a bold combo that would turn heads in dour downtown Montreal, although Claire looks perfectly at home among the junkshop flotsam and aborted art projects of La Brique, a former industrial loft that's now the epicentre of the city's colourful underground scene.
  • (11) For those sweet souls out there whose minds have remained unsullied by the flotsam and jetsam of the fashion world, I shall explain.
  • (12) Everybody knows that we shall not be detaining the Saudi paymasters of terror for 42 days; just as happened under internment, we shall be scraping up the flotsam and jetsam of communities.
  • (13) Beachcombers began to pick their way through the flotsam and jetsam thrown on to the shore.
  • (14) Is Maya, like Ishmael, the lone survivor left clinging to the flotsam of the Pequod?
  • (15) When we started out, we picked up all sorts of flotsam and jetsam.
  • (16) Those of us already caught in its grip are but flotsam, inconvenient but ultimately discardable.
  • (17) It’s one thing to spill your guts in your own book, but another to do so among the Z-list flotsam and jetsam in the CBB house.

River


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rives or splits.
  • (n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
  • (n.) Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
  • (v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (4) Infection level increased sharply in the age-group 6-10 years old among people residing far from the rivers.
  • (5) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
  • (6) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
  • (7) Seventy-four strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from water and sediments of the River Porma (León, N.W.
  • (8) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
  • (9) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
  • (10) Comparatively the virus strength sinks more slowly at 4 degrees C in the more mineralized river water (figure 2).
  • (11) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
  • (12) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
  • (13) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
  • (14) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
  • (15) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
  • (16) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
  • (17) Larval populations from the three rivers were genetically distinct.
  • (18) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
  • (19) This polymorphism enabled us to differentiate a Hudson River population from that encountered in the Maine rivers.
  • (20) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.

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