runoff
径流,流水线,奔流,奔流不息
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- : something that drains or flows off, as rain that flows off from the land in streams.
- : a final contest held to determine a victor after earlier contests have eliminated the weaker contestants.
- : a deciding final contest held after one in which there has been no decisive victor, as between two contestants who have tied for first place.
- : Also called rundown. a continual or prolonged reduction, especially in quantity or supply: a runoff in bank deposits; a sharp runoff in business inventories.
- : Stock Exchange. the final prices appearing on the ticker after the closing bell is rung for the trading day.
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After winning reelection in a runoff, he was kicked off the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
Streams, rivers, and lakes are especially vulnerable to water runoff that contains de-icing salts.
Yet for a brief moment in the summer of 2020 as Greene faced Cowan in a runoff, it seemed that other Republican Party officials would turn against her.
He traveled twice to the state during the runoff campaign for speeches that largely focused on his own grievances against state Republican leaders.
After all, plenty of Republicans still showed up to vote — enough to help set a record for runoff turnout.
So then-President George H.W. Bush and other prominent Republicans endorsed Treen in the House runoff.
But what if a Louisiana runoff will determine which party controls the Senate?
“Do not allow liquid runoff to enter sewers or public waters,” the report states.
Tyner went on to note that correct legal remedy if the runoff was called into question was “a new election.”
But like a lot of things in life, how hard you work matters, and in a short runoff campaign, every day is like a week.
Gradual thawing would allow normal runoff without much penetration.
Runoff is checked by a sod and less water is used by a sod in mid-summer, after it has been mowed, than by a heavy cover crop.
Scrub on the remainder, however, serves to stabilize the soil of the forest lands against erosion and to slow the runoff of water.
It had narrow twisting lanes, some with a ditch down the middle for water runoff.
Another part may penetrate a little distance into the zone of weathering and then join the runoff.