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Meanings of basin in английском
The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet.
Синонимы
Examples for "watershed"
Examples for "watershed"
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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.
4
The rout in European financial markets last week was a watershed event.
5
This week has been a watershed moment for the discourse on alcohol.
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Flash floods usually arise when rain falls over a small catchment basin.
2
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.
5
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.
3
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.
5
Piecemeal operations within each lesser drainage area can be self-defeating or, at the very least, needlessly expensive.
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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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The willows in the Arctic drainage basin shrink to shrubs scarcely knee-high.
2
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.
5
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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There's been deliberate management of that catchment area and its high-value homes.
2
Local Authorities say their water catchment area was excluded from the 1080 bombardment.
3
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.
Usage of basin in английском
1
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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The baying of the dogs was now deep down in the basin.
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But efforts to build hydroelectric dams in the Tapajós river basin continue.
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News.com.au spoke this week to a miner in the Bowen basin region.
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Traveling west, they soon left behind the low-lying basin of windy plains.
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Put in a bowl and place in a basin of ice water.
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Put the basin containing the boiling syrup in another of boiling water.
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He came out of the room with the basin in his hands.
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With her left hand she turned on the water in the basin.
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The willows in the Arctic drainage basin shrink to shrubs scarcely knee-high.
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There must be a Baldy sub in the basin inside the gate.
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They were pushing the waters out of the basin of the sea.
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Basin through the time
Basin across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common