tributary

1. a. Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. Source: opted

2. a. Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior. Source: opted

3. a. Paid in tribute. Source: opted

4. a. Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi. Source: opted

5. n. A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security. Source: opted

6. n. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent. Source: opted

7. adj. (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream Source: wordnet

8. adj. paying tribute Source: wordnet

9. adj. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for Source: wordnet

10. n. a branch that flows into the main stream Source: wordnet

11. 1. Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace. [Julius] unto Rome made them tributary. Chaucer. 2. Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior. He to grace his tributary gods. Milton. 3. Paid in tribute. "Tributary tears." Shak. 4. Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi. 1. A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security. 2. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent. Source: webster

12. n:100 s. (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream s. paying tribute Source: ecdict

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