What's the difference between riparian and stream?

Riparian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plasma levels of corticosterone during June were high in black-throated sparrows, but less so in two other species (Abert's towhee, Pipilo aberti, and Inca dove, Scardafella inca) found in more shady riparian and suburban habitat with constant access to water.
  • (2) India’s supreme court recently warned that “the alarming rate of unrestricted sand mining” is disrupting riparian ecosystems all over the country, with fatal consequences for fish and other aquatic organisms and “disaster” for many bird species.
  • (3) quinquefasciatus may be important secondarily by disseminating virus from the riparian habitat to the adjacent residential habitat.
  • (4) For example, the most senior water rights – called riparian – are “not quantified”, he said.
  • (5) St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus has become established in the Los Angeles Basin of California, where it most likely is maintained by horizontal transmission among Culex tarsalis Coquillet and passerine birds in park-riparian habitat.
  • (6) This chimed with an emerging view in the agency that concrete was no habitat for wildlife which lives in the water or the 'riparian zone' - the variably wet edge of the river.
  • (7) Marked females released within the riparian habitat were recaptured most frequently within 1 km of the release point; however, flights as far as 12.6 km were documented within the 180-km2 study area.
  • (8) The persistence of arboviruses was studied from 1983 to 1988 in mixed agriculture, marsh, riparian, and foothill habitats in Kern County, CA.
  • (9) Nearly half of the spirochete-positive ticks were removed from migrating birds taken in a riparian floodplain forest.
  • (10) quinquefasciatus Say populations were studied in riparian, agricultural, and residential habitats along the Kern River bed during the drought year of 1990.
  • (11) Although host-seeking females of both species were most abundant in the riparian habitat, more Cx.
  • (12) tarsalis may be important in disseminating arboviruses within the riparian habitat, but that Cx.

Stream


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
  • (v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
  • (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
  • (n.) A beam or ray of light.
  • (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
  • (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
  • (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
  • (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
  • (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
  • (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
  • (v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
  • (v. t.) To unfurl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (4) Starting from the hypothesis that a new type of cooperativity, dynamic cooperativity, is present in the elementary cycles of the chemo-mechanical conversion, quantitative and consistent agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental data on the temperature dependences of the streaming velocity and the ATPase activity, including the presence of the phase transition.
  • (5) Animal behaviour can be viewed as a stream of elements, which, once accurately described, can be counted and timed.
  • (6) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
  • (7) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
  • (8) To induce thrombosis we damaged the vessel wall over a short segment by compression and exposed the damaged media to the blood stream.
  • (9) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (10) Changes to the Mac Pro desktop computer are also expected, as is a new music streaming service .
  • (11) The clash is the latest in a deadly stream of attacks since July, which officials said had already claimed the lives of at least 70 members of the security services and hundreds of PKK militants.
  • (12) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
  • (13) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
  • (14) A high stability of the blood stream in the vascular constructions studied is explained as a possibility of counterstream gas exchange between the arterial and venous blood in the truncal vascular micromodule.
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  • (16) The pulmonary efflux streams by the buccal contents with minimal mixing, and relatively pure air is pumped into the lungs.
  • (17) Jay-Z has won control of a Swedish music streaming company after more than 90% of shareholders accepted the star’s $54m (£36m) offer.
  • (18) The results of the present study focused on differences in types of self-touching by patients and physicians, semantic content of utterances when self-touching was displayed, and temporal location of self-touching within the speech stream.
  • (19) These convective streaming motions combine with molecular diffusion to produce augmented diffusion which transports O2 and CO2 between the trachea and the peripheral alveoli.
  • (20) The correct diagnosis was assisted by marked leucocytosis with the release of a major number of plasmatic cells into the peripheral blood stream.

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