The Chesapeake watershed spans 64,000 squares miles, covering parts of six states—Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Over 17 million people live in this area.
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Watershed
//ˈwɔtɚʃɛd//
Synonyms for "watershed" (24 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (7)
Noun(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (12)
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6 entriesderived
13 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 29 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- вададзе́л noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- вадападзе́л noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вододел noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- повратна точка noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Catalan
2 entries- partió d'aigües noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- punt decisiu noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Czech
1 entries- rozvodí noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Danish
2 entries- vanddeler noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- vendepunkt noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Dutch
2 entries- keerpunt noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
- waterscheiding noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Esperanto
1 entries- akvodislimo noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Finnish
2 entries- vedenjakaja noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- vedenjakaja noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
French
2 entries- ligne de partage des eaux noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- tournant décisif noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Galician
2 entries- divisoria de augas noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- punto de inflexión noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Georgian
2 entries- წყალგამყოფი noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- წყალგასაყარი noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
German
3 entries- Wasserscheide noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- Wendepunkt noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
- Zeitenwende noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Greek
1 entries- υδροκρίτης noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Hebrew
2 entries- קו פרשת המים noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- קו פרשת המים noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Hungarian
1 entries- vízválasztó noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Icelandic
1 entries- vatnaskil noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Italian
1 entries- spartiacque noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Kazakh
1 entries- суайрық noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Macedonian
3 entries- во́доврат noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- во́додел noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- вододе́лница noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Malay
1 entries- legeh noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- vannskille noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- vannskille noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
- veiskille noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
- vendepunkt noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- vasskilje noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Polish
4 entries- dział wodny noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- dział wód noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- godzina graniczna noun (time after which adult material may be broadcast)
- przełom noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Portuguese
2 entries- divisor de água noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
- divisor de águas noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Romanian
1 entries- cumpănă de ape noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Russian
2 entries- водоразде́л noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- перело́мный моме́нт noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Spanish
4 entries- dos rombos noun (time after which adult material may be broadcast)
- hito noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
- línea divisoria noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- momento clave noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Swedish
4 entries- skiljeväg noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
- vattendelare noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
- vattendelare noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
- vägskäl noun (critical point marking a change in course or development)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вододі́л noun (boundary between adjacent catchment basins)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
More than 250 fish species use the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries for some portion of their life cycles, including American and hickory shad, river herring, striped bass, eel, weakfish, bluefish, flounder, oysters, and blue crabs. More than 300 migratory bird species can also be found in the watershed.
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Boston is in the Neponset River watershed.
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It is the 15th of February of 2015, on Lulu Island. I am more interested in cosmology now than in astronomy. Physical cosmology is the "study of the origin, evolution, large-scale structures and dynamics, and ultimate fate of the universe." The vast cosmic "watershed" in which Earth finds itself is called Laniakea, from Hawaiian for "immeasurable heaven." (Hawaiian 'lani' is cognate with Tagalog's 'langit'.)
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