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Значения термина watershed (watersheds) на английском

португальский
bacia hidrográfica
каталонский
dàrsena
испанский
cuenca

The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet.

bacia hidrográfica
португальский
cumeeira
каталонский
línia divisòria

A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems.

cumeeira
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Examples for "divide"
Examples for "divide"
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Events in Europe suggest IS is failing in its mission to divide.
Reuters
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The main issues are the economy, jobs and the growing wealth divide.
Reuters
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Yet economics only goes some way to explaining the new cultural divide.
The Guardian
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Political scientists have been aware of the growing education divide for decades.
The Guardian
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We divide that day into smaller fractions: the hour, minute, and second.
Wired
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With little difficulty they transported their canoe across the water parting to the Peace River.
Pioneers in Canada
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The Witwatersrand (White River Slope) is a slight elevation, the water parting between rivers, about one and a half miles wide and 125 miles long.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era / A Supplementa...
португальский
ponto de viragem
каталонский
moment decisiu

An event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend.

ponto de viragem
Использование термина watersheds на английском
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Traditional methods are also used to protect watersheds or coasts.
Reuters
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This is one of the great watersheds of South America.
Full Circle
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The 1980s formed one of the watersheds of modern history.
Modern Times
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New York City urged a ban on natural gas drilling in its watersheds on Wednesday.
Reuters
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Coca-Cola is helping to repair national watersheds that also happen to supply its own factories.
The Guardian
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The current maintenance budget doesn't match the scale of America's long-term modifications of its watersheds.
Wired
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Its feeders reach the Andes, draining watersheds within a hundred miles of the Pacific ocean.
Boy Scouts in an Airship; Or, The Warning from the Sky
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The agency recommended not drilling in the watersheds that serve New York City and Syracuse.
Reuters
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The logging increases global warming with heightened carbon emissions, and landslides through loss of watersheds.
Reuters
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It is situated, so to say, on one of the great natural watersheds of laughter.
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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We followed the main trails which followed the watersheds.
The Trail Book
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The old explorers usually laid claim to certain watersheds.
Project Mastodon
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Environmentalists said more money was needed to enforce laws to stop industrial pollution and protect watersheds.
Reuters
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Utah has approved PR Spring despite opposition from green groups that say such projects threaten watersheds.
Reuters
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They are watersheds for individuals and governments, for the fortunes of political parties and entire parliaments.
The Guardian
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Small watersheds often do have unity of this human sort, but very few major river basins.
The Nation's River: A report on the Potomac / From the U.S. Depa...
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