(n.) A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
(n.) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance to a waterfall.
(n.) A certain kind of neck scarf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
(2) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(3) Our project was huge and our overall quality assurance process at the time was very basic and waterfall-esque,” recalls one quality assurance worker at EA.
(4) 1) During changes in PGCV below a threshold value, the coronary circulation exhibits traditional waterfall behavior.
(5) Plus there’s a children’s pool, a tiny waterfall, a sunbathing zone, showers, changing rooms, and parking.
(6) Here the two waterfalls can cause small landslips, so do take care crossing them.
(7) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
(8) Tapajós was investigating the head of an illegal gambling cartel, Carlinos Cachoeira – also known as Charlie Waterfall – and his sprawling web of influence.
(9) Several studies of flow through collapsible tubing deformed by external pressures have led to a concept known as the "vascular waterfall".
(10) In the shadow of the Black Cuillins, the icy water of Allt Coir a'Mhadaidh spills down a series of waterfalls and pools.
(11) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
(12) At a site near Boti waterfalls in southern Ghana a total of 14 644 female and two male Simulium squamosum were caught in four nights in Monks Wood light traps.
(13) Each roomy retreat sleeps five, and has a patio and lounge, but only Berghylur backs onto a waterfall.
(14) These data do not support the presence of a "sluice" or "waterfall" effect in the umbilical-placental circulation of the sheep fetus in utero.
(15) The entire population of the Umgeni Waterfall Institution for mentally retarded Whites was karyotyped using aceto-orcein and ASG banded preparations.
(16) Theatrically backdropped by conical Great Sugarloaf mountain, the estate is landscaped with terraces, lakes and ponds, and also embraces the country's highest waterfall.
(17) The path starts climbing up the side of a pretty beck with a waterfall.
(18) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.
(19) The findings agree with the predictions of the vascular waterfall model.
(20) In addition, Pla-Ppa relationships, obtained at a constant flow, have no discriminating ability in identifying the presence or absence of a waterfall along the circulation.
Watershed
Definition:
(n.) The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
(n.) The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anterior borderzone brachial paralysis (ABBP) is a hemodynamic ischemic syndrome of the watershed zone between the anterior and middle cerebral arteries.
(2) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(3) The issue was first raised by BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow and brought to the attention of the then BBC Vision director Jana Bennett – number two to BBC director general Mark Thompson – after the sitcom, which was planned for a post-9pm watershed slot, was moved to pre-watershed.
(4) Consequently, the insular ribbon effectively becomes a watershed arterial zone.
(5) But campaign groups are now convinced that they have lost the battle on the pre-watershed ban.
(6) Cerebral watershed infarctions usually occur after a period of acute and severe systemic hypotension resulting in a distinctive clinical picture.
(7) Monthly mean concentrations of dieldrin in river water and most aquatic organisms were highest in June and July, soon after aldrin had been applied to corn land in the watershed.
(8) It marked a watershed in public perceptions of Brown, and represents the biggest unforced political error in the history of New Labour.
(9) Pardew's antics will generate yet more negative headlines for a club never far from controversy for one reason or another, and the manager admits that the episode may well be a personal watershed.
(10) Last month, public discontent spilled over for the first time when Putin was booed during an appearance at a martial arts fight , an event described by analysts as a watershed moment in his rule.
(11) The oxygen extraction fraction rose with the distance from the anterior portion of the circle of Willis, attaining the highest value in the superior parietal and posterior temporo-occipital watershed area.
(12) Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT may be more sensitive than CT in the detection of infarctions in the watershed distribution.
(13) Lee Hsien Loong acknowledged that was a watershed, promising to listen to voters.
(14) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
(15) Swine faeces from three pig farms in the La Crosse River watershed near La Crosse, Wisconsin, were sampled for Yersinia enterocolitica; 19 presumptive isolates were recovered and biochemically confirmed as Y. enterocolitica.
(16) If that happens, the Britain that votes to join the anti-Isis alliance will have crossed a post-Iraq watershed.
(17) The lesions were thought to be in the watershed areas of the regional arterial supplies, and the areas were considered to be prone to ischemia.
(18) The position of the watershed zone could be important to explain the visual field defect in anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and glaucoma.
(19) Only a few deep infarctions were watershed infarction possibly.
(20) Watershed cerebral infarcts can now be identified in stroke survivors using CT scanning.