river
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
- 2.
Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
a river of blood
- 3.
(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
- 4.
(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
- 5.
One who rives or splits.
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verb- 1.
(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
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From Middle English ryver, from rivere, from rīpāria (littoral, riverbank), from Latin rīpārius (of a riverbank), from Latin rīpa (river bank), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (to scratch, tear, cut). Unrelated to rīvus stream (whence rival, derive). riviera rivière. Displaced native ēa.