Catchment is an English word with synonyms like structure or construction. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Catchment in a sentence
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Catchment meaning
- Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.
- A catchment area, or the people it serves.
Synonyms of Catchment
Using Catchment
- The main meaning on this page is: Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water. | A catchment area, or the people it serves.
- Useful related words include: structure, construction.
- In the example corpus, catchment often appears in combinations such as: catchment area, the catchment, catchment areas.
Context around Catchment
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Catchment
- In this selection, "catchment" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, river, sub, good, area, areas and communities stand out and add context to how "catchment" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a good catchment area and barron river catchment which could. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "catchment" sits close to words such as abstain, acrylic and adc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with catchment
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pupils that graduate from Primary 6 and JSS in the catchment communities. (12 words)
The catchment areas of the dam received 2,777 mm of rain last year. (14 words)
The awareness campaign was kick-started in the four catchment communities of the Dangote Cement Plc. (16 words)
However he warned: "Going up to a town play park will be really important for Duloch because of the catchment and the population there, but you are looking at £200,000 and at the minute there are no funds. (39 words)
The River Peffery Catchment Project has been awarded development phase funding to identify options to enhance and restore habitats along the full length of the river from the slopes of Ben Wyvis right down to the centre of Dingwall. (39 words)
The evening also included a whisky-themed auction in support of the Spey Catchment Initiative, a charity tasked with improving the tributaries and rivers of the region, in support of Atlantic Salmon. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
West Dunbartonshire currently caters for children who live further than one mile from their catchment primary school, and two miles from their catchment secondary school.
It follows the catchment area receiving an average of 100mm of rain from midnight, with the sub-catchment, close to the dam wall, receiving ~130mm.
But because she doesn't live in the catchment area, her referral has been declined and she's not been given any help by the NHS.
But they can’t find a club in the league or they want to be closer to home in London, so we’ve got a good catchment area.
However he warned: "Going up to a town play park will be really important for Duloch because of the catchment and the population there, but you are looking at £200,000 and at the minute there are no funds.
It aims to bring together river restoration, riparian planting, peatland restoration, urban wildlife projects and other land management enhancements within the whole catchment.
It was one of five threatened with closure in the Gwernyfed catchment area as part of plans to reduce surplus school places and reduce costs.
Malawi Watershed Services Improvement Project (Mwasip) has disbursed K131 million under Community Environmental Conservation Fund to three catchment areas to empower communities to uplift their livelihoods through small-scale businesses.
Other features include cloakroom, conservatory, fantastic school catchment area, clectric car charge point, parking for several cars.
Professor Nott said the rainfall would flow through the Barron River catchment which could flood several areas downstream.
Pupils that graduate from Primary 6 and JSS in the catchment communities.
Run-off from the catchment after exceptionally heavy rainfall resulted in elevated levels of bacteria being identified in the water.
She said: “Some of the catchment area we serve is the first- and second-most deprived areas in Wales.
The awareness campaign was kick-started in the four catchment communities of the Dangote Cement Plc.
The catchment areas of the dam received 2,777 mm of rain last year.
The evening also included a whisky-themed auction in support of the Spey Catchment Initiative, a charity tasked with improving the tributaries and rivers of the region, in support of Atlantic Salmon.
The "Ghed region" or low-lying area poses geographical challenges during monsoon, as it is easily submerged by rainwater received from its upper catchment area and seasonal rivers.
The grants are part of Mwasip’s $53 million fund to scale up landscape restoration in Machinga, Balaka, Neno, Mangochi, Zomba, Ntcheu and Blantyre in the Shire River catchment.
The recent flooding is part of this natural process; the floodplain is performing its function to prevent flooding in other parts of the river catchment.
The River Peffery Catchment Project has been awarded development phase funding to identify options to enhance and restore habitats along the full length of the river from the slopes of Ben Wyvis right down to the centre of Dingwall.
Common combinations with catchment
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- catchment area 40×
- the catchment 35×
- catchment areas 22×
- water catchment 10×
- river catchment 9×
- catchment of 6×
- upper catchment 5×
- school catchment 4×
- in catchment 4×
- catchment and 3×