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# watercourse

«watercourse» in Mova's school dictionary: **any channel that water flows along, like a river, stream…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a watercourse, watercourses)

### meaning for a pupil

A watercourse is any channel that water flows along, like a river, stream, brook, ditch or canal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watercourse/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons on rivers and the water cycle, watercourses carry rainwater to the sea; maps show them as blue lines. In safety and environment lessons, polluting a watercourse harms fish and is against the law. Phrases: «a natural watercourse», «along the watercourse», «pollution of watercourses».

### examples

- A small watercourse runs along the bottom of the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watercourse/#x1)
- Farmers must not let chemicals get into watercourses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watercourse/#x2)
- The map shows every watercourse as a thin blue line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watercourse/#x3)
- Willows grow along the banks of the watercourse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watercourse/#x4)
- After heavy rain, the dry watercourse filled with water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watercourse/#x5)
- Australian creeks can be dry watercourses for much of the year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watercourse/#x6)

### note

One word. Countable. A rather formal or technical word used in geography, law and maps; everyday talk says «stream», «river», «creek» (US, Australia, New Zealand) or «burn» (Scotland).

### In the corpora

- [And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.972/)
- [The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever He will.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.589/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «watercourse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watercourse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.