Crossword-Solution: CATCHMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Catchment | n. | A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “CATCHMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DRAINAGE basin of surface run-off | 1 answer |
| RAINFALL collection area | 1 answer |
| The area from which rainfall flows into a river, lake, or reservoir | 1 answer |
| WATER reservation area | 1 answer |
| Watershed | 7 answers |
| Water supply | 10 answers |
| reservoir | 12 answers |
| WATER, body of | 14 answers |
| Dam | 40 answers |
| watercourse | 49 answers |
| BASIN ___ | 49 answers |
| Waterway | 53 answers |
| crisis | 63 answers |
| Summit | 64 answers |
| Divide | 64 answers |
| Partition | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CATCHMENT (5)
The advantages of having ample water for battery purposes, or of using water as a motive power, are so great that it is very often desirable to construct a tramway of considerable length, when, by so doing, that power can be utilised; hence most quartz mills are placed near streams, or in valleys where catchment dams can be effectively constructed, except, of course, in districts where much water has to be pumped from the mine.
The catchment area of the creek which discharges into Brammo Bay is less than forty acres, and for the most part consists of exceedingly steep declivities.
Yet, notwithstanding the circumscribed extent of the catchment, the steep, in places almost precipitous, descents, and that for months the rain was insufficient to cause a surface flow, the creek which had cut a gully or canyon forty feet deep across the plateau, never ceased running, the turbulence of the wet season having merely subsided into a tinkling trickle.
The conclusion I draw (rightly or wrongly) from the fact emphasised by these figures is that the mass of vegetation exercises a direct and immediate effect upon the flow of water by gravitation from the catchment.
For the catchment basins are being so conscientiously cleared of their timber that the two rivers cannot but suffer a great diminution in volume.
Quotes with CATCHMENT (3)
Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intima…
Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
Some of my scripts need the larger catchment area of Bollywood. But some suit Telugu films.