Definitions
Etymologies
- head + waters (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Needless to say he spent a lot of time bent double under the foliage dapping in headwaters 4 feet wide.”
“A watershed is the area representing all the land draining moisture from the highest elevations, usually referred to as the headwaters, to a specified outlet point.”
“Right now, the headwaters are the meetings that were held last Tuesday, the party leadership that those delegates will select, and what the newly elected precinct committee people do between now and the 2012 to reach out in their neighborhoods.”
“Like Colorado, Wyoming is a "headwaters" state - the source of many of the West's great rivers.”
“Not so much in the headwaters of the Colorado and Green River feeding Lake Powell, at 67% of normal.”
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“The final draft of the treaty gave the United States nearly all the land Congress had sought and far more than Spain or France intended: from the Atlantic in the east to the Mississippi in the west and from the Georgia frontier in the south to the St. Lawrence watershed, Great Lakes, and headwaters of the Mississippi in the north.”
“Financial gain and political ends, both of which came to dominate later Western involvement in Africa, played little part: The search for the headwaters of the Nile began in 1856, a decade before the discovery of the diamond mines and gold fields of Africa.”
“While the solid waste becomes valley fills, liquid waste is stored in massive, dangerous coal slurry impoundments, often built in the headwaters of a watershed.”
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“At the headwaters of the scandal is the University's non-credible justification for sending in the police in the first place: "safety.”
The Huffington Post: Rik Seyman: UC Davis' Peppergate Meltdown: Only the Tip of the Glacier
“Another gringo who moved to Mexico "for the adventure", (like they were going to build a tree house at the headwaters of the Atoyac), was having a classic meltdown when the cashier at Superlake refused to accept his torn 500 peso note muttering something about "these people". arbon”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘headwaters’.
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Public List: Body Metaphors
Phrases that use body parts metaphorically.
neck of the woods, bone of contention, mouth of a river, teeth of the storm, heart of the matter, foot of the bed, eye of the storm, dogleg hole, finger lakes, headwaters, foothills, knik arm and 212 more...
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What Keeps Your Ears Apart?
A sort of stuffie of words/phrases that include "head"
head of cattle, out of one's head, head of the stairs, come to a head, head of steam, head of the page, win by a head, head taller, headway, fountainhead, heads or tails, hit the nail on t... and 143 more...
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Geographical Fun
the Earth's geographic beauty & diversity.
arroyo, atoll, badlands, barrier island, berm, box canyon, cataract, chasm, escarpment, estuary, grotto, gulch and 54 more...
Tweets
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skipvia See Body Metaphors. Feb 27, 2008