runoff
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈrʌnˌɔf/
- US
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escorrentía
- We tend to think of runoff water as the source of pollutants in rivers, lakes, and estuaries.
- stormwater runoff
- water runoff
- agricultural runoff
So right now what you have in the the Missouri, Mississippi is runoff.
- So right now what you have in the the Missouri, Mississippi is runoff.
- And now the runoff of the mining from the Denay land has contaminated all of their water supply.
- Streams, rivers full of these chemicals, runoff of we're losing quality of our soil.
- So we did get some water runoff, not much, but a little bit from my in laws grass.
- But if you have now spring rains instead of spring snows, the dams will not store the energy water or the energy and you have a runoff.
- While we're while reading Banu's Ban, I woke up thinking excess fat, milk runoff, blood in the gutter.
- Look at Ant, Ant, Ant mounds, moles, you know, areas of runoff from the rain, like things get carried, little bits of metal like.
Examples
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The whole town's sitting on a system of aqueducts... runoff from the mountains.
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Eager to protect wildlife, the city is working on a plan to reduce fertilizer runoff into local waterways.
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So we did get some water runoff, not much, but a little bit from my in laws grass.
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It's industrial runoff from the soap factory down the street!
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It's all glacial runoff, and for some reason it looks like that.
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Now Natural Resources, they think it's feeding off the nutrients in the water from the chicken runoff.
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While that is largely true, runoff is not the only source of pollution.
Academic text (1999) -
And now the runoff of the mining from the Denay land has contaminated all of their water supply.
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This level has bilge pumps on it for storm runoff.
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There are elevations of drainage details and plans for runoff and sediment control.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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3.5
Rain that runs off streets and roofs into drains instead of soaking into the ground
Antonyms
How Much
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2.1
- US
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3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Runoff for water comes from the words run and off, meaning 'to flow away'. Think of rain that runs off a roof or field into a stream, which is why runoff means water that flows away after a storm.