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Meanings of drainage area in English
The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet.
Synonyms
Examples for "basin"
Examples for "basin"
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Declared and secret energy agreements with Russia, Caspian basin countries, and others.
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The basin in which the Crisis lay was entirely fringed with forest.
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The rain is heaviest in the Takazze basin in July and August.
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The state sits atop the Marcellus Shale, a large natural gas basin.
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At one time this State had aspirations to drain the Shannon basin.
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This year, especially, could mark a watershed moment in the political arena.
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Deputy Commissioner Wally Haumaha is calling the new strategy a watershed moment.
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Says O'Connor: Now is a watershed moment for Ireland on insurance reform.
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The rout in European financial markets last week was a watershed event.
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This week has been a watershed moment for the discourse on alcohol.
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There's been deliberate management of that catchment area and its high-value homes.
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Local Authorities say their water catchment area was excluded from the 1080 bombardment.
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The view changes dramatically, though, if heavy rain falls in the catchment area.
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The study was conducted in 4 riparian communities within the dam catchment area.
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Then each child lives in the catchment area of a number of schools.
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Flash floods usually arise when rain falls over a small catchment basin.
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Its value as a flood catchment basin is somewhat uncertain, as it is used as a storage feeder for Morris Canal.
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Not a drop of liquid is to leave the catchment basin; it is exactly the reverse of what we desire in Europe.
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A spokesman for Dublin Port said the leaked fuel was contained within a catchment basin beside the tank purpose-built to handle such incidents.
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Samples of feces, wastewater from catchment basins, and soil where wastewater was applied were collected from CONV and RWA feedlot and dairy farms.
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But efforts to build hydroelectric dams in the Tapajós river basin continue.
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Severe flooding hit the Yangtze river basin in China this week.
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The Harirud river basin is shared by Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan.
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The river basin showed luxuriant grassy slopes and immense sugar plantations.
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Nestled into the side of a mountain, it overlooks the Liffey river basin.
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The willows in the Arctic drainage basin shrink to shrubs scarcely knee-high.
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Table showing detailed facts regarding possible reservoir sites on Passaic drainage basin.
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The drainage basin of Passaic River is admirably adapted to the development of the conservation system.
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Its drainage basin, including in this its own area, is estimated to be about five hundred square miles.
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To possess one-half the drainage basin of the valley would have led to constant conflict with the owners of the other half.
Usage of drainage area in English
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The Pompton River has a drainage area above Mountain View of 420 square miles.
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The drainage area above this point is 114 square miles.
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Mr Deery fell about 800 feet into a drainage area near the town of Wanaka.
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With too little drainage area the earth in a pot gets clogged and very often sour.
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Piecemeal operations within each lesser drainage area can be self-defeating or, at the very least, needlessly expensive.
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The drainage area of the Amazon basin above Obidos is about 1,945,000 sq.
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The drainage area of the Potomac is 11,000 square miles.
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No ruins of circular dwellings occur in the Gila-Salado drainage area, where likewise no circular kivas have been observed.
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The total loss in the drainage area of Pompton River was $350,000.
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The river Amazon has a drainage area of 2,722,000 sq.
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This would conserve 4,026,000,000 cubic feet, equal to 2.69 feet on the drainage area.
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It has a drainage area of 244,000 square miles and a length of 1700 miles.
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The liver transection line is established in order to obtain the graft, including the drainage area of the left medial vein.
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The drainage area tributary to this point is about 140 square miles in extent, the country for the most part being quick-spilling and upland.
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Therefore the figure 11.74 represents a conservative mean for a calculation of total amount of water over the drainage area.
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The capacity of such a reservoir would be 1,768,000,000 cubic feet, equal to about 5.5 inches on the drainage area.
Translations for drainage area