Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
Lighten UPS
WORDS
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="dilligaf" data-source="post: 1054882" data-attributes="member: 11476"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>watershed</strong></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><img src="http://www.merriam-webster.com/images/wod/mwol2010_audio_pron_blue.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #757575"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">\WAW-ter-shed\</span></span></span></span></li> </ul><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>DEFINITION</strong></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></li> </ul><p></p><p><span style="color: #757575"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>noun</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><strong>1</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><em>a</em> <strong>:</strong> a dividing ridge between drainage areas<em>b</em> <strong>:</strong> a region or area bounded peripherally by a divide and draining ultimately to a particular watercourse or body of water</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><strong>2</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><strong>:</strong> a crucial dividing point, line, or factor <strong>:</strong> turning point</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>EXAMPLES</strong></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></li> </ul><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Historians generally agree that the battle was a <em>watershed</em> in the war. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">"Penn State's 38–29 win over previously unbeaten Northwestern felt like a <em>watershed</em>, the end of purgatory at the very least." — From an article by Mike Gross in the <em>Intelligencer Journal/New Er</em>a (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), October 8, 2012</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>DID YOU KNOW?</strong></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></li> </ul><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Opinion on the literal geographic meaning of "watershed" is divided. On one side of the debate are those who think the word can only refer to a ridge of land separating rivers and streams flowing in one direction from those flowing in the opposite direction. That's the term's original meaning, one probably borrowed in the translation of the German<em>Wasserscheide</em>. On the other side of the argument are those who think "watershed" can also apply to the area through which such divided water flows. The latter sense is now far more common in America, but most Americans have apparently decided to leave the quarrel to geologists and geographers while they use the term in its figurative sense, "turning point."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Read more at <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/#sMCeItYeRqvWXpIh.99" target="_blank">Merriam-Webster Online</a></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dilligaf, post: 1054882, member: 11476"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial] [LIST] [*][B]watershed[/B] [*][IMG]http://www.merriam-webster.com/images/wod/mwol2010_audio_pron_blue.gif[/IMG] [*][COLOR=#757575][FONT=Verdana]\WAW-ter-shed\[/FONT][/COLOR] [/LIST] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial] [LIST] [*][B]DEFINITION[/B] [*] [/LIST] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#757575][FONT=Verdana][I]noun[/I][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=verdana][B]1[/B] [I]a[/I] [B]:[/B] a dividing ridge between drainage areas[I]b[/I] [B]:[/B] a region or area bounded peripherally by a divide and draining ultimately to a particular watercourse or body of water [B]2[/B] [B]:[/B] a crucial dividing point, line, or factor [B]:[/B] turning point [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial] [LIST] [*][B]EXAMPLES[/B] [*] [/LIST] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Historians generally agree that the battle was a [I]watershed[/I] in the war. "Penn State's 38–29 win over previously unbeaten Northwestern felt like a [I]watershed[/I], the end of purgatory at the very least." — From an article by Mike Gross in the [I]Intelligencer Journal/New Er[/I]a (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), October 8, 2012[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial] [LIST] [*][B]DID YOU KNOW?[/B] [*] [/LIST] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Opinion on the literal geographic meaning of "watershed" is divided. On one side of the debate are those who think the word can only refer to a ridge of land separating rivers and streams flowing in one direction from those flowing in the opposite direction. That's the term's original meaning, one probably borrowed in the translation of the German[I]Wasserscheide[/I]. On the other side of the argument are those who think "watershed" can also apply to the area through which such divided water flows. The latter sense is now far more common in America, but most Americans have apparently decided to leave the quarrel to geologists and geographers while they use the term in its figurative sense, "turning point."[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial] Read more at [url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/#sMCeItYeRqvWXpIh.99]Merriam-Webster Online[/url][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
Lighten UPS
WORDS
Top