What's the difference between rivulet and runnel?

Rivulet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small stream or brook; a streamlet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are in the garden, the sun is beating and a rivulet of sweat is running down Tyson's nose.
  • (2) The floor is splattered with globules and rivulets of dried paint; you could almost be standing on an enormous Jackson Pollock.
  • (3) The Burnieshed has been re-braided: forced into narrow rivulets it rushes and tumbles, waiting in pools it fizzes and foams.
  • (4) As long-time Willistonians and newcomers alike are quick to point out, however, the amount of oil sitting below the surface of North Dakota is enormous compared to the rivulets of gold once found in the Klondike.
  • (5) Heavy rain was running down Pardew's back in rivulets by the time Yoan Gouffran missed a stoppage-time sitter to ensure the manager's 100th league game in charge of Newcastle would end in frustration.
  • (6) These rich, blowsy flowers from which paint dribbles in rivulets are a metaphor not just for transience but embody too the sensuality of life.
  • (7) This is a truly spectacular spot to swim, so plunge in and cool down under the fast-flowing rivulets of the small waterfall, which flows over a cave covered with moss.
  • (8) Satyarthi forces him to take water from a plastic bottle and he gulps at it hungrily, head tilted back, rivulets running down his face.
  • (9) We have now got to that scene in the Brexit movie where rivulets of sweat begin to drip down the faces of the crew.
  • (10) The fashion aficionado had always had a dream of opening a luxury hotel and with its spectacular villages and rivulets, streams and beaches, Pelion appealed as an all-year-round tourist destination.
  • (11) At the same mo-ment he is "cheered by the music of a thousand tinkling rills and rivulets whose veins are filled with the blood of winter which they are bearing off"; at other times he eavesdrops on "the faint wiry peep" of the baby woodcock being led by their mother through the swamp.
  • (12) Professor Shakeel Romshoo, a geologist at Kashmir university in Srinagar, said new rivulets had cut deep channels in the mountain gorges of the region and floodwaters had inundated low-lying areas.

Runnel


Definition:

  • (n.) A rivulet or small brook.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These were the height of Sporobolus, which increased near runnels, and the number of mosquito larvae, which decreased.
  • (2) The main difference between ditching, OMWM and runnelling lies in the magnitude of the habitat modification.
  • (3) Consequently, runnelling has a smaller effect on the estuarine environment as a whole than does either ditching or OMWM.
  • (4) Runnelling alters the salt marsh as little as possible while causing significant reductions in mosquito numbers.
  • (5) Runnelling had a statistically significant effect on only two of the seven variables.
  • (6) Ditching involves the greatest alteration to the marsh, and runnelling the least.
  • (7) The effect of runnelling on the environment was monitored via the following variables: water table level, substrate characteristics (moisture, salinity and pH), vegetation (height and density of each Sporobolus virginicus) and the numbers of mosquito larvae.
  • (8) An environment-oriented approach to salt marsh management for mosquito control, runnelling, is described and compared with other forms of habitat modification such as ditching and Open Marsh Water Management (OMWM).

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