tributary

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
2. isim A vein which drains into another vein.

   “The great saphenous vein is a tributary of the femoral vein.”

3. isim A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.

   “An earneſt Coniuration from the King, / As England was his faithfull Tributary”

4. sıfat Related to the paying of tribute.
5. sıfat Subordinate; inferior.

   “to grace his tributary gods”

6. sıfat Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing.

   “The Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.”