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English translation: current-driven lake

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French term or phrase:	lac au fil de l'eau
English translation:	current-driven lake
Entered by:	MatthewLaSon

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16:15 Oct 6, 2009

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French term or phrase: lac au fil de l'eau

Par exemple, les **lacs au fil de l’eau** comme le Petit lac Magog le long de la rivière Magog (Figure 11) sont pour la plupart des usagers des régions hydriques à part entière.

Figure 11 feature a map of a river that widens into a lake and then narrows down into a river. I understand the term here but I just can't seem to find the English equivalent.

Thanks!

PS. This is Quebecois French.

Hattie Hill KudoZ activity Questions: 279 (3 open) (28 closed without grading) Answers: 42
Local time: 12:05

current-driven lake

Explanation:
Hello,

Just a guess...never heard of this...

OH is a current driven lake when it is hot weather. There are several major creeks also that the fish will move into with cooler weather. ...

www.wmi.org/bassfish/bassboard/fishing_tactics/message.html...

I hope this helps.

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to get into the big rainbows that live and grow large in this current-driven lake. (from the CIFFI cooperative effort with Pine Cove Marina). ...

www.kokanee.org/NEWS/Newsletters/Spring_2006.pdf

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It's like a big lake with a current. I took about 30 minutes and threw out several lures without any contact. One of the gentlemen in the bridge picture ...

It's a like with a current because a river flows into it.

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I mean that it's a "lake" with a current because a river flows into it.

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MatthewLaSon
Local time: 12:05

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Summary of answers provided

4 +3

river lake / open lake / exorheic lake

Jim Tucker

broad

Anton Konashenok

paternoster (lake)

Owen Beith

small, long lake; pool, water

xxxBourth

choppy lake

Chris Hall

current-driven lake

MatthewLaSon

Discussion entries: 1

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12 mins confidence:

choppy lake

Explanation:
My suggestion.

au fil de l'eau = with the stream / current.

Chris Hall
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:05
Native speaker of:

English

15 mins confidence:

broad

Explanation:
...or so they call then in geography

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theM, sorry

Anton Konashenok
Czech Republic
Local time: 18:05
Native speaker of:

Russian,

English

1 hr confidence:

small, long lake; pool, water

Explanation:
I can't get my mind round the "why" of this distinction, unless it is simply that these are small, presumably long (relative to their width, anyway) lakes. After all, most lakes (exceptions being Lake Chad and the Aral Sea, a few in Australia, etc.,) start off as rivers, widen (more substantially) into lakes then narrow into rivers again.

"Pool" or the English dialectal "water" might do it too.

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Ribbon lake
Researching Conniston Water took me to "ribbon lake". Since these are the result of glaciation, it may the case of your lake in Quebec.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_lake

xxxBourth
Local time: 18:05
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 52

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

river lake / open lake / exorheic lake

Explanation:
open lake / exorheic lake
"River lake" purely in layman's terms for easy understanding, but properly these are varieties of open or exorheic lakes.

These are lakes that have an outflow, as opposed to a closed or endorheic lake, which loses water only through evaporation.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exorheic
http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?contentid=68559&lan=en

"Most lakes are exorheic, with some flow-through "

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Most lakes are fed by rivers anyway, so the main distinction here is whether they are exorheic - whether there's a river flowing out as well.

Jim Tucker
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

1 hr confidence:

paternoster (lake)

Explanation:
paternoster lake - one of a series of glacial lakes connected by a single stream or a braided stream system. Paternosters occur in alpine valleys, climbing one after the other to the valley's head, called a corrie, which often contains a cirque lake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lake

Owen Beith
Local time: 17:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

4 mins confidence:

current-driven lake

MatthewLaSon
Local time: 12:05
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 7

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Oct 13, 2009 - Changes made by MatthewLaSon:
Edited KOG entry	Hattie Hill's old entry - "lac au fil de l\'eau" => "current-driven lake"

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