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Meanings of drainage basin in English
Russian
водосборный бассейн Portuguese
bacia fluvial Catalan
conca hidrogràfica Spanish
cuenca hidrografica Area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.
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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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The first issue is being addressed by a catchment study currently underway.
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Firstly, many parents make multiple applications to schools in multiple catchment areas.
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There's been deliberate management of that catchment area and its high-value homes.
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She is advocating for a catchment management authority with traditional owner representation.
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The men nearest would arrange catchment areas of plates and flower bowls.
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A flood watch was issued for the northern, eastern and southeast river catchment.
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Around 90mm is forecast for the region, which is great news for the local river catchment system.
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What river catchment do you live in?
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The river catchment was given a C-plus mark yesterday with the release of the first five year report card on its health and well-being.
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Farmers living in river catchment areas have urged the Government to deliver a plan to tackle the flooding problem for once and for all.
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But efforts to build hydroelectric dams in the Tapajós river basin continue.
2
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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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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It is proposed to drain the great salt- water basin called the Zuiderzee.
2
Here is the old holy- water basin, an antique, broken column hollowed out on top.
3
You're too sick, I said as I brought the water basin to his side.
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Zeus shook his head and walked toward a water basin.
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With pincers, he dropped the conglomerate into a water basin and removed his safety equipment.
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Only 10.4% of the total watershed area in 1995 and 5.2% of the total watershed area in 1996 were classed as "high potential P movement."
2
The walls are covered with commendation, photos of Mulwray at various construction sites, large maps of watershed areas and reservoirs in the city.
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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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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.
Usage of drainage basin in English
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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.
4
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.
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It operates five hydropower dams, three on the Paraná River and three in the drainage basin of the Paraíba do Sul River.
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All stained (blue or black) nodes in the inguinal drainage basin were removed for pathologic analysis, including carbon particle analysis.
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It lies partly within the drainage basin of the Orinoco and partly within that of the Rio Negro, an affluent of the Amazon.
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In length it is equal to the Yenisei and Blue River, but its drainage basin is larger than that of either of the others.
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It is the drainage basin for rivers that start in the snowy mountains of India, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan including the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Teesta.
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In the drainage basin of the Ganges, through which the train is again carrying us south-eastwards, 100 million human beings, mostly Hindus, have their home.
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Headwaters account for a high proportion of total freshwater stream-channel length in a drainage basin and are critical habitats for rare, endangered, and specialized species.
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The drainage basin of the St. Lawrence was called New France (or Canada); the lands near Port Royal became another French colony, called Acadia.
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Key (sentinel) cervical lymph nodes in the regional lymphatic drainage basin were identified, selectively excised during SLND, and examined for microscopic evidence of tumor cells.
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Some canyons branch at their upper ends resembling dendritic patterns of onshore river drainage basins.
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Results: Intraoperative lymphatic mapping identified sentinel nodes in 90% of the regional drainage basins.
Translations for drainage basin
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