For instance, the word " bank " has several distinct lexical definitions, including " financial institution " and " edge of a river ".

Although the Caiman has not been studied in-depth, scientists have learned that their mating cycles ( previously thought to be spontaneous or year-round ) are linked to the rainfall cycles and the river levels, which increases chances of survival for their offspring.

Near the west end of Lake Thun, the river receives the waters of the Kander, which has just been joined by the Simme.

The channel of the river has been considerably improved by the federal government.

The city has a river port, industry enterprises, Katanov State University of Khakasia, and three theatres.

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

The three arches are elliptic, and though very light and elegant, have resisted the fury of the river, which has swept away several other bridges at different times.

Bozizé has strengthened military presence along the border and deployed an amphibious force patrolling the Ubangi river.

In addition, the navy's riverine brigade has been patrolling waterways more aggressively in order to establish safer river transport in the more remote areas in the south and east of the country that are controlled by rebel groups.

The city has a river which proceeds " out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Since then it has been eroding, creating dramatic incised valleys, and providing the sediment that gives the Yellow River its yellow color and that causes the flooding of the river in the lower reaches ( hence the river's nickname ' China's sorrow ').

In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces.

In recent years, however, the ecological importance of the river has warranted a vast restoration effort, and the river today has a wide variety of economical and recreational uses.

The portion of the river in the city of Detroit has been organized into the Detroit International Riverfront and the William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor.

Since the river is fairly short, it has few tributaries.

The Gröbenbach, which has its source south of Puchheim, runs through town coming from the south and merges into the Amper river at several locations near the festival grounds.

This river has a steeper gradient and therefore flows more swiftly than the White Nile, which it joins at Khartoum.

It has been said that Ceithlenn got wounded in battle by an arrow and attempted to swim across the river but she never reached the other side.

Traffic of smaller vessels at Elbląg is within the river and very marginal, while larger vessels cannot reach the open Baltic Sea because the channel, once built in East-Prussia to go through the peninsula, has belonged to Russia since 1945.

The river has become almost stagnant and its banks are overgrown with waterlilies and tulies.

Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.

It is used occasionally when it is necessary to limit the turning circle as the yacht swings when it is anchored, such as in a very narrow river or a deep pool in an otherwise shallow area.

Northern Bosnia contains very fertile agricultural land along the river Sava and the corresponding area is heavily farmed.

It is a very beautiful river and popular for rafting and adventure sports.

In 2010, a team of scientists led by the University of Leeds used a robotic " yellow submarine " to observe detailed flows within an " undersea river " for the very first time.

From Kampong Cham the gradient slopes very gently, and inundation of areas along the river occurs at flood stage — June through November — through breaks in the natural levees that have built up along its course.

straddles Equator ; very narrow strip of land that controls the lower Congo River and is the only outlet to South Atlantic Ocean ; dense tropical rainforest in central river basin and eastern highlands

The very narrow and winding shape of the strait is more akin to that of a river.

It is thought that before the Ice Age Greenland had mountainous edges, and a lowland ( and probably very dry ) center which drained to the sea by one big river flowing out westwards past where Disko Island is now.

From the river bank they hear a very loud cry, followed by a complaining clamour in savage discords: " It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short "-" The sheer unexpectedness of it made my hair stir under my cap.

In a 1753 letter he wrote that he had " become very fond of studying the surface of the earth, and was looking with anxious curiosity into every pit or ditch or bed of a river that fell in his way ”.

:" And then, when Jesus had come to the river Jordan where John was baptizing, and when Jesus came down into the water, a fire was even kindled in the Jordan, and when He was rising up from the water, the Holy Spirit fluttered down upon Him in the form of a dove, as the < U > apostles have written </ U > about this very Christ of ours.

They travelled from the very beginning of the river near Kissidougou in Guinea, walking at first till a raft could be used, then changing to various local crafts as the river broadened and changed.

From Louisville, the river loses depth very gradually until its confluence with the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois, where it has an approximate depth of.

** Scroll plain, a plain through which a river meanders with a very low gradient.

After the waterfall the river enters a gorge where there is very fast whitewater with class-4 rapids ; it is often used for whitewater rafting although it is not considered to be of the same quality as the Tena River and is therefore less popular for the sport.

One family of nacreous pearl bivalves – the pearl oyster – lives in the sea, while the other – a very different group of bivalves – lives in freshwater ; these are the river mussels such as the freshwater pearl mussel.

A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge.

Large turtles tend to swim less than smaller ones, and the very big species, such as alligator snapping turtles, hardly swim at all, preferring to simply walk along the bottom of the river or lake.

A very short stretch of the river serves as the boundary between the U. S. states of Texas and New Mexico.