Definizione monolingua

river

river (third-person singular simple present rivers, present participle rivering, simple past and past participle rivered)

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

river (plural rivers)

1. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea. Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.

2. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body (e.g., a river of blood).
3. (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.

Definizione dizionario river

	fiume
	large stream which drains a landmass
	A stream of water which flows in a channel from high ground to low ground and ultimately to a lake or the sea, except in a desert area where it may dwindle away to nothing.

fluviale

rio

riva

torrente

Altri significati:

(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.

any large flow of a liquid

Any large flow of a liquid in a single body (e.g., 'a river of blood').

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, ending at an ocean or in an inland sea. Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.

poker: last card dealt

(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.