Creek vs. Liver — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Creek and Liver
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Definitions
Creek
A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and northwest Florida and now located in central Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
Liver
The liver is an organ only found in vertebrates which detoxifies various metabolites, synthesizes proteins and produces biochemicals necessary for digestion and growth. In humans, it is located in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen, below the diaphragm.
Creek
The Muskogean language of the Creek.
Liver
A large, reddish-brown, glandular organ in the abdominal cavity of vertebrates that secretes bile and is active in the formation of certain blood proteins and in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
Creek
A Native American confederacy made up of the Creek and various smaller southeast tribes.
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Liver
An organ in invertebrates that is similar to the vertebrate liver.
Creek
A member of this confederacy. In all senses also called Muskogee1.
Liver
The bile-secreting organ of certain animals, used as food.
Creek
A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river. Also called regionally branch, brook1, kill2, run.
Liver
A dark reddish brown.
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Creek
A channel or stream running through a salt marsh
Tidal creeks teeming with shore wildlife.
Liver
One who lives in a specified manner
A high liver.
Creek
Chiefly British A small inlet in a shoreline, extending farther inland than a cove.
Liver
Made of or flavored with liver:liver pâté.
Creek
(British) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
Liver
Of a dark reddish brown.
Creek
A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
Liver
(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
Creek
Any turn or winding.
Liver
This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
I'd like some goose liver pate.
You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.
Creek
A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore.
They discovered a certain creek, with a shore.
Liver
A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
Creek
A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks.
Liver
Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
He gave his horse some liver of antimony.
Creek
Any turn or winding.
The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.
Liver
Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
Creek
A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river);
The creek dried up every summer
Liver
Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
Creek
Any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
Liver
One who, or that which, lives.
And try if life be worth the liver's care.
Liver
A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
Liver
One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
Liver
A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
Liver
The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); - said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.
Liver
Large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes
Liver
Liver of an animal used as meat
Liver
A person who has a special life style;
A high liver
Liver
Someone who lives in a place;
A liver in cities