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[Middle English tributarie, paying tribute, from Latin tribūtārius, from tribūtum, tribute. See tribute.]
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Definition: secondary; branch
Antonyms: original, primary, source
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Greatness means leading the way.- No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
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A tributary or affluent[1] is a stream or river that flows into a main stem (or parent) river or a lake.[2] A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or sea.
A confluence, where two or more bodies of water meet together, usually refers to the joining of tributaries.
Reciprocal to a tributary is a distributary, a river that branches off from and flows away from the main stream. Distributaries are most often found in river deltas.
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'Right tributary' and 'left tributary' (or 'right-bank tributary' and 'left-bank tributary') are terms stating the orientation of the tributary relative to the flow of the mainstem river. These terms are defined from the perspective of looking downstream (in the direction the water current of the main stem is going).
Where tributaries have the same name as the river into which they feed, they are called forks. These are typically designated by compass direction. For example, the American River receives flow from its north, middle, and south forks.
Forks are sometimes designated as right or left. Here, the "handedness" is from the point of view of an observer facing upstream. For instance, Steer Creek has a left tributary which is called Right Fork Steer Creek.
Tributaries are sometimes listed starting with those nearest to the source of the river and ending with those to those nearest to the mouth of the river. The Strahler Stream Order examines the arrangement of tributaries in a hierarchy of first, second, third, and higher orders, with the first order tributary being typically the least in size. For example, a second order tributary would be the result of two or more first order tributaries combining to form the second order tributary.
Another method is to list tributaries from mouth to source, in the form of a tree structure, stored as a tree data structure.[citation needed]
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - biflod
adj. - skatskyldig, underordnet, bi-
Nederlands (Dutch)
zijrivier, zij-, schatplichtig
Français (French)
n. - (gén, Géog) affluent, tributaire (sout)
adj. - tributaire, secondaire, tributaire (nation) (sout)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Tributpflichtiger, Nebenfluss, Zufluss
adj. - Steuer...
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (γεωγρ.) παραπόταμος, φόρου υποτελής
Português (Portuguese)
n. - tributário (m)
Русский (Russian)
приток (реки), государство, платящее дань, данник
Español (Spanish)
n. - tributario, afluente
adj. - tributario, afluente
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skattskyldig, underlydande, lyd-, bidragande, hjälp-
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
进贡国, 支流, 附庸国, 进贡的, 从属的, 附庸的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 進貢國, 支流, 附庸國
adj. - 進貢的, 從屬的, 附庸的
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 속국 , 지류, 공물을 바치는 나라
adj. - 속국의, 공헌하는, 지류의
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - みつぎを納める, 他国に従属する, 属国の, 貢献する, 支流である, 従属する, 支流の
n. - 進貢者, 支流
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) نهر يصب في نهر أكبر منه, الرافد
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - פלג, יובל, זרוע-נהר, משלם-מס, מדינה משועבדת
adj. - מהווה יובל של (נהר), נשפך, זורם, משמש כמס, משלם-מס
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