Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The water from which a river rises; a source.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the upper tributaries of a river: usually in the plural. Also used adjectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
source (and the initial part) of astream
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the source of a river
Etymologies
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Examples
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The river's future flows may be greatly diminished because of climate change affecting weather patterns in headwater areas.
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Local residents, Sierra Club, and our allies working to protect a headwater stream in the beautiful Apple River watershed from being converted to a manure storage lagoon have won a major victory with Illinois EPA's denial of an essential permit for the project.
Jack Darin: Illinois EPA Moves to Protect Apple River From Massive Sewage Lagoon Jack Darin 2011
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Mountaintop removal is devastating to our mountains, our economy, and our communities, and HR 1310 will reverse a devastating Bush Administration rule change which allows toxic waste from mountaintop removal mining to be dumped directly into our headwater streams.
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Mountaintop removal is devastating to our mountains, our economy, and our communities, and HR 1310 will reverse a devastating Bush Administration rule change which allows toxic waste from mountaintop removal mining to be dumped directly into our headwater streams.
Wonk Room » Live Q&A With Rep. Donna Edwards: Energy, Climate, And Environment 2009
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Local residents, Sierra Club, and our allies working to protect a headwater stream in the beautiful Apple River watershed from being converted to a manure storage lagoon have won a major victory with Illinois EPA's denial of an essential permit for the project.
Jack Darin: Illinois EPA Moves to Protect Apple River From Massive Sewage Lagoon Jack Darin 2011
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Local residents, Sierra Club, and our allies working to protect a headwater stream in the beautiful Apple River watershed from being converted to a manure storage lagoon have won a major victory with Illinois EPA's denial of an essential permit for the project.
Jack Darin: Illinois EPA Moves to Protect Apple River From Massive Sewage Lagoon Jack Darin 2011
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More than four decades since King's letter and the Kentucky movement to abolish strip-mining, Kentuckians and the nation have watched as close to 300 mountains and nearly 600,000 acres of hardwood forests, and hundreds of miles of headwater streams, have been irreversibly destroyed by mountaintop removal strip mining.
Jeff Biggers: Governor's Sit-In Day Two: Why Kentucky Can't Wait Jeff Biggers 2011
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Local residents, Sierra Club, and our allies working to protect a headwater stream in the beautiful Apple River watershed from being converted to a manure storage lagoon have won a major victory.
Jack Darin: Illinois EPA Moves to Protect Apple River From Massive Sewage Lagoon Jack Darin 2011
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More than four decades since King's letter and the Kentucky movement to abolish strip-mining, Kentuckians and the nation have watched as close to 300 mountains and nearly 600,000 acres of hardwood forests, and hundreds of miles of headwater streams, have been irreversibly destroyed by mountaintop removal strip mining.
Jeff Biggers: Governor's Sit-In Day Two: Why Kentucky Can't Wait Jeff Biggers 2011
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Local residents, Sierra Club, and our allies working to protect a headwater stream in the beautiful Apple River watershed from being converted to a manure storage lagoon have won a major victory with Illinois EPA's denial of an essential permit for the project.
Jack Darin: Illinois EPA Moves to Protect Apple River From Massive Sewage Lagoon Jack Darin 2011
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