WatershedWordNet Explorer
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an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
an event that occurs at a critical time
(Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death
a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians)
the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
a demarcated area of the Earth
a storage site (such as a small reservoir) that delays the flow of water downstream
a storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream