CATCHMENTS Synonyms

• any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

• emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it

• placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law

• a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

• a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal

• any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments

• a small lake

• a container that is used to put or keep things in

• enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts

• an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert

• a large or extra supply of something

• lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water

• tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)

• anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

• an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine

• a well or other hole in which water has collected

• a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

• an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads

• a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids

• as much as a tank will hold

• a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk

• a cell for violent prisoners

• store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it

• consume excessive amounts of alcohol

• treat in a tank

• a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

• the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

• an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend