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Synonyms for Watershed
ˈwɔ tərˌʃɛd, ˈwɒt ər-wa·ter·shed
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watershednoun
A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
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catchment basin, catchment, river basin, catchment area, drainage area, water basinwatershednoun
A critical point marking a change in course or development.
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turning pointwatershednoun
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divide, water parting, water divide, drainage dividewatershednoun
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safe harbor
Princeton's WordNet
watershed, water parting, dividenoun
a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
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river basin, drainage area, landmark, catchment area, watershed, drainage basin, catchment basin, divide, turning point, basin, water partingriver basin, basin, watershed, drainage basin, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage areanoun
the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
"flood control in the Missouri basin"
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washstand, divide, river basin, washbowl, washbasin, landmark, lavatory, drainage area, watershed, drainage basin, catchment basin, catchment area, turning point, basin, water parting, basinfullandmark, turning point, watershednoun
an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
"the agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations"
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street corner, corner, river basin, drainage area, landmark, catchment area, watershed, drainage basin, catchment basin, divide, turning point, basin, water parting
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watershednoun
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divide
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "watershed":
watersheds, basin, catchment, drainage, basins, hydrographic, milestone, pool, bassin, watershed-based, pelvis, river-basin, turning-point
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1554 | pool | |
#2218 | corner | |
#5943 | basin | |
#8328 | divide | |
#8817 | drainage | |
#8939 | watershed | |
#10532 | landmark | |
#13614 | milestone | |
#19314 | basins | |
#19678 | catchment | |
#23476 | watersheds | |
#31417 | pelvis | |
#33512 | lavatory | |
#45347 | hydrographic | |
#92352 | washbasin | |
#92739 | bassin | |
#184105 | washstand |
How to use Watershed in a sentence?
This is a watershed moment, or tipping point in the world of virtual reality, fOX Sports is a major player and this partnership with them is a milestone in VR and providing these live experiences is unlike anything before. We’re very excited.
But this moment of reckoning about our friends and colleagues who have been accused of sexual misconduct is necessary, and it is painful. We must not lose sight that this watershed moment is bigger than any one industry, any one party, or any one person, to achieve lasting change, we will need to fight this everywhere on behalf of everyone by insisting on accountability and working to bring more women into leadership in each industry to fundamentally shift the culture.
There is this palpable excitement among Angelenos. A big part of that is it’s only fitting since we hosted the first Super Bowl back in 1967 that Super Bowl LVI is really going to be a watershed moment as we write our comeback story here in LA from the pandemic.
There are large portions of the watershed you can see that are completely burned. It looks like burnt toothpicks sticking out of the ground for acres and acres, with the soil instability, during a heavy rain event it would be like putting water on a bunch of baby powder where it doesn't absorb at all ; it just falls.
The mainland customers we get are very, very focused. They know exactly what they want in our stores. It hasn’t gotten to the watershed moment when it becomes a mainstream thing, but they are catching up.
Translations for Watershed
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- نقطة تحولArabic
- вододелBulgarian
- Wendepunkt, WasserscheideGerman
- υδροκρίτηςGreek
- dos rombos, momento decisivo, línea divisoria, hito, punto de inflexión, punto crucialSpanish
- vedenjakaja, hFinnish
- ligne de partage des eaux, tournant décisifFrench
- קו פרשת המיםHebrew
- vatnaskilIcelandic
- spartiacqueItalian
- вододелницаMacedonian
- vannskille, vendepunkt, veiskilleNorwegian
- waterscheiding, keerpuntDutch
- divisor de águasPortuguese
- водоразде́л, перело́мный моме́нтRussian
- skiljeväg, vägskäl, vattendelareSwedish
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