River vs. Beck: What's the Difference?

River and Beck Definitions
River
Abbr. R. A large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries.
Beck
A gesture of beckoning or summons.
River
A stream or abundant flow
A river of tears.
Beck
A small brook; a creek.
River
The fifth and last of the community cards in various poker games, especially Texas hold'em.
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Beck
A stream or small river.
River
To win a hand in poker by beating (someone) on the basis of the last community card that is turned up.
Beck
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
River
A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
Beck
A vat.
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River
Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
A river of blood
Beck
Obsolete form of beak
River
(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
Beck
(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
River
(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
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Beck
See Beak.
River
One who rives or splits.
Beck
A small brook.
The brooks, the becks, the rills.
River
(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
Beck
A vat. See Back.
River
One who rives or splits.
Beck
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
They have troops of soldiers at their beck.
River
A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow.
Beck
To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.
River
Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
Beck
To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.
When gold and silver becks me to come on.
River
To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
Beck
A beckoning gesture
River
A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek);
The river was navigable for 50 miles