1.3.1 Bodies of water

Use this domain for general words referring to bodies of water.

Louw Nida Codes: 
1J Bodies of Water
  • What general words refer to a body of water?
    body of water, hydrosphere
  • What words describe something belonging to the water?
    marine, oceanic, riverine

    • 1.3.1.1 Ocean, lake

    Use this domain for words referring to bodies of standing water.

    Related domains: 
    9.7.2.8 Names of oceans and lakes
  • What words refer to bodies of standing water of different sizes?
    ocean, sea, lake, pond, pool, puddle, wallow
  • What words refer to a man-made lake?
    reservoir, man-made lake, catchment area
  • What are the parts of bodies of water?
    surface, bottom, abyssal depths, abyssal plain, thermal layer, seamount, continental shelf, shallows, the depths, the deep, open sea
  • What words refer to the study of the ocean?
    oceanography

    • 1.3.1.2 Swamp

    Use this domain for words referring to bodies of standing water with plants growing in them.

  • What words refer to shallow bodies of standing water with plants growing in them?
    swamp, swampland, wetland, marsh, marshland, bog, delta, estuary, bayou, morass
  • What words describe an area that is a swamp?
    swampy, marshy, boggy
  • What words refer to moving through a swamp?
    get bogged down, sink

    • 1.3.1.3 River

    Use this domain for words referring to bodies of flowing water.

    Related domains: 
    9.7.2.9 Names of rivers
    1.1.3.7 Flood
  • What words refer to rivers of different sizes?
    river, stream, streamlet, creek, brook, brooklet, rill, rivulet
  • What words refer to a river when it has a lot of water?
    flood, torrent, flash flood, freshet, swell, surge
  • What words refer to a river overflowing its banks?
    overflow its banks, flood, deluge
  • What words refer to two rivers coming together?
    branch, confluence, fork, tributary
  • What words refer to a part of a river that is steep?
    waterfall, falls, rapids, cascade, cataract, spillway, race
  • What are the parts of a river?
    source, head, headwaters, mouth, upstream, downstream, bend, whirlpool, eddy, river bottom, riverbed, backwater, narrows, oxbow
  • What words refer to a river when it has no water?
    watercourse, dry riverbed, wash, arroyo, wadi
  • What words refer to a man-made river?
    canal
  • What words refer to a place to cross a river?
    bridge, ford
  • What words refer to something floating down a river or caught in it?
    flotsam, snag, logjam
  • What words refer to dirt, sand, and rocks washed down by a river?
    sandbar, delta, alluvium, alluvial, silt,
  • What words refer to the area of land drained by a river?
    watershed, basin
  • What words refer to the movement of a river?
    current, flow

    • 1.3.1.4 Spring, well

    Use this domain for words referring to a place where water comes out of the ground.

  • What words refer to a place where water comes out of the ground?
    spring, water source, water supply, well, artesian well, water hole, bore hole, fountain, fountainhead
  • What words refer to water coming out of the ground?
    spring up, well up, bubble up, flow out of

    • 1.3.1.5 Island, shore

    Use this domain for words referring to land in contrast with the sea or river.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1I Land in Contrast With the Sea
  • What words refer to the land in contrast to the sea?
    land (and sea), dry land, mainland, continent, inland, interior, terrestrial
  • What words refer to an island?
    island, isle, islet, archipelago, atoll, key
  • What words are used of the edge of a lake or sea?
    shore, beach, coast, coastal, coastland, seaboard, seashore, shoreline, foreshore, edge, strand, reef, coral reef, water-front, strip,
  • What words refer to a bay?
    bay, gulf, cove, fjord, harbor, inlet, lagoon, sound, strait, port,
  • What words refer to a peninsula?
    peninsula, promontory, cape
  • What words are used of the edge of a river?
    bank, riverbank, levee, sandbar, embankment
  • What words describe something near water?
    seaside, beachfront, lakeside, bordering
  • What words refer to a place where the water is shallow?
    shallows, shoal,