runlet

noun

ˈrən-lət How to pronounce runlet (audio)
Definition of runletnext
as in creek
a natural body of running water smaller than a river weather forecasters warned that the heavy rains might cause the area's runlets to overflow

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  1. creek
  2. brook
  3. stream
Noun
  • Dive team members for the Houston police department then searched beneath the surface of the muddy creek.
    Ayana Bryant, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Ike Walker, whose business and pleasure in life is the manufacture of fishing lures, was somewhere south of us on the creek fishing with Grady Blanton and Milton Pace.
    Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
Definition of creek
Noun
  • Or might the brook be angry, like a poltergeist deranged by degradation, indignity, and concealment?
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Moore, even in her 90s, is quite the babbling brook — twinkly and self-possessed, a calm pathological narcissist, the kind of person who spins out her life like a novel, making stories she’s told a million times sound spontaneous.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of brook
Noun
  • By 1958, part of the stream in Elm Grove was developed over, and routed into a concrete culvert, which no longer absorbed the water as the wetland did.
    Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Otherwise, you’ll likely be inundated with an endless stream of texts from the family group chat and notifications from social-media platforms.
    Angela Haupt, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of stream
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“Runlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/runlet. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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