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Landscape vs Watershed - What's the difference?

landscape | watershed |

As nouns the difference between landscape and watershed

is that landscape is a portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains while watershed is the topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

As a verb landscape

is create or maintain a landscape.

landscape

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
  • A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
  • The pictorial aspect of a country.
  • (printing) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
  • A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape ")
  • (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
  • The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

    Antonyms

    * (printing mode) portrait

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * landscape gardener * landscape gardening * -scape

    Verb

    (landscap)
  • Create or maintain a landscape.
  • See also

    * dreamscape * moonscape * seascape

    watershed

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia watershed) (en noun)
  • (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
  • (US) A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
  • A critical point marking a change in course or development.
  • (Canada, British) The time after which material of more adult nature (violence, swear words, sex) may be broadcast on television or radio, either one laid down or one contrived (e.g. when children are not watching...)
  • Synonyms

    * (boundary between two adjacent catchment basins) water parting, drainage divide, water divide, divide * (drainage basin) catchment basin, catchment, catchment area, drainage area, river basin, water basin * (time after which adult material may be broadcast) safe harbor (US) * (critical point marking a change in course or development) turning point

    Derived terms

    * postwatershed * prewatershed * watershedding