lake

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. loch, lough; pond, pool, tarn, lakelet, mere. See water.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. pond, creek, mouth, tarn, loch, lough, lagoon, mere, pool, inland sea; see also sea .

Famous lakes include: Titicaca, Yellowstone, Geneva, Leman, Lucerne, Constance, Ladoga, Great Salt, Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario, Finger Lakes, Champlain, Tahoe, Great Bear, Great Slave, Millac, Victoria, Nyanza, Tanganyika, Nyasa, Como, Maggiore, Windermere, Coniston Water, Derwentwater, Crummock Water, Wastwater, Haweswater, Ennerdale Water, Lake of the Woods, Buttermere, Bassenthwaite Water, Baikal, Lyn Cawlyd, Loch Ness, Loch Tay, Loch Lomond, Lough Neagh, Lough Erne.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

pond, tarn, pool, basin, reservoir, loch, Great Salt Lake, Erie, Ontario, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Tahoe, Geneva, Champlain, Mead, Loch Ness, Titicaca, Victoria, Baikal, Crater, Dead Sea. ''The earth's eye.''—Thoreau.

WORD FIND

• bend of a river, cut off: oxbow lake

• crater lake: caldera

• desert, temporary, shallow: playa

• diminishing process from lake to pond to marsh to swamp: eutrophication, succession

• epoch when most lakes formed: Pleistocene

• expert on: limnologist

• glacial: ice scour, kettle, moraine lake

• glacial series of, resembling beads: paternoster lakes

• Great Lakes forming glacier: Wisconsin ice sheet

• mountain lake: tarn

• mountainside basin: cirque

• oscillations of: seiche

• outlet: bayou

• pertaining to: lacustrine

• skimming insect: boatman

see marsh, pond, river, swamp