As I was reading today I wondered what the difference is between a brook and a creek. Then I got to wondering about the stream and the river.Dictionary.com defines them as...
Brook - a small, natural stream of fresh water
Brook - a small, natural stream of fresh water
Creek - (in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.) a stream smaller than a river
Stream - a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook
River - a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels
So a brook is smaller than a creek which is smaller than a steam which is smaller than a river. I'm just trying to decide if my grandpa's farm has a creek or a stream or a brook that runs along one side. It must be a creek considering it doesn't look nearly as lovely as the description sounds of the brook that streams by Green Gables.
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Well my take on it is that a brook, a creak and a stream could be used to describe the same flowing water. I think we have the old "coke", "soda", "pop" thing going here. The funny thing is they used each term in each discription. Where I come from we call it a creek but if I were writing I'd probably say stream or brook because that sounds more poetic, don't ya think?
re: the message before, sorry I meant "creek" not "creak".
a brook is a flowing body of water with no tributaries and dries up part of the year.
a creek is a flowing body of water with several brooks as tributaries.
a stream is a flowing body of water with one or more creeks as tributaries.
a river has one or more major tributaries and any number of the previous flowing bodies of water.
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