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tributary

A tributary is a river or stream that flows into a larger body of water, such as a river or lake. A tributary is a state that pays another state, often in return for protection.

tributary

paying tribute a tributary colony (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream (= feeder) a branch that flows into the main stream (= conducive, contributing, contributory) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for working conditions are not conducive to productivity the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city a contributory factor

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Stop, stop, if you don't want me to retaliate by reciting all the tributary branches of the Amazon.
Oh, this is probably a tributary of the river Loire. If we continue on, we should each the port of Nantes, God willing.
Carl, have you any idea what this tributary empties into?
If there is a dead end to this tributary, that's where we'll find the fragments.
Sovereign of all tributary countries adjacent and in every direction et cetera, et cetera, et cetera..
And, uh, he buys a territory which is out of reach. because there are very, very strong rapids. and you can't move a big boat into the upper tributary.
And what he does, actually, is that he moves in a - in a parallel tributary. because he knows there is one geographical point. where the two river systems almost join.
As England is Denmark's faithful tributary as love between them like the palm might flourish, etc.
Anyway, it's fed by a tributary of the Madison.
Cut back to this tributary, save us fifty miles.
It's concatenated with a synchronous transport switch that creates a virtual tributary.
Midden is one of their your tributary worlds, m'Lord.
Two other teachers and I once took a hydro-skimmer out onto a small tributary in the Amazon.
Found only within a 100-mile radius of the Amazon's Purus tributary.
Oh, this is probably a tributary of the river Loire.
Left-bank tributary of the Amazon River. backwards?
Tributary flowing backwards!
Now, as I understand things, you got the river flowing up here and the tributary into it. And you got all these irrigation ditches, too.
It's a small town on a tributary of the Yangtze River, in the interior.
You've put our nation in danger and made us a tributary state!
In a few moments, this tributary will distribute its life sustaining gifts on this small piece of land.
He was discarded in a tributary over 400 miles away from anything that feeds into the dam where the first victims were found.
Someone has foolishly stepped upon my path. endeavoring to forge a tributary and force me down it.
We'll search every cove and tributary if we have to.
Sovereign of all interior tributary countries adjacent and around in every direction, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I'll cover you till the tributary.
The Amazon transports a billion tonnes of sediment a year, sediment clearly visible at the mixing of the waters where one massive tributary, the Rio Negro, flows into the main river.
Tributary's ligated.
Over 4,000 kilometres away, in Mali, another dry river, a tributary of the Niger, is forcing one man into making a difficult decision.
Gruber Pharmaceuticals dumped toxic waste into Frog Creek, a tributary of the Trout River that feeds into Clearwater Lake.
We always knew we could only be really free. - It's the tributary of Xingu River. - In the great outdoors.
You follow a river called the Grumeti, or it's a tributary of the Grumeti, which I have traced back.
This is the Big Black River, a tributary of the mighty Mississippi in America's deep south.

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On its descent from the roof of the world, the Jinsha River, tributary of the mighty Yangtze, cascades through this ten-mile gorge on its way to Shanghai and the East China Sea.
But, in return, it will demand that smaller, less powerful states explicitly recognize China's primacy (just as in the tributary systems of old).

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