Look up: drought

1. Drought
   [sport] In sports, a drought refers to instances in which a team has gone a lengthy period of time without accomplishing some goal (e.g. making the playoffs or winning a championship). Droughts occur for a variety of reasons, from chronic mismanagement to bad luck. Some fans believe that the...
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2. Drought
   a prolonged period of dryness that can cause damage to plants.
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3. Drought
   Prolonged and abnormal shortage of water caused by lack of rainfall.
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4. drought
   [n] - a prolonged shortage 2. [n] - a temporary shortage of rainfall
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5. drought
   a sustained period of time with insufficient precipitation; A period of climatic conditions characterised by prolonged lack of rainfall and high temperatures, during which time the ratio of rain is less than twice the mean temperature Category: The cosmos • the naturally occurring phenom...
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6. Drought
   Drought (drout) noun [ Middle English droght , drougth , druʒð , Anglo-Saxon drugað , from drugian to dry. See Dry , and confer Drouth , which shows the original final sound.] 1. Dryne...
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7. drought
   1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. 'The drought of March hath pierced to the root.' (Chaucer) 'In a drought the thirsty creatures cry.' (Dryden) ... 2. Thirst; want of drink. ... 3. Scarcity;...
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8. drought
   drouth noun a shortage of rainfall; `farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season`
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9. drought
   drouth noun a prolonged shortage; `when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought`
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10. drought
    period of time when there is a lack of water
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11. Drought
    • (n.) Scarcity; lack. • (n.) Thirst; want of drink. • (n.) Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
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12. drought
    lack or insufficiency of rain for an extended period that causes a considerable hydrologic (water) imbalance and, consequently, water shortages, crop ... [28 related articles]
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13. Drought
    A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply whether surface or underground water. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. It can have a substantial impact on the ecosystem and agriculture of ...
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14. Drought
    Climatic condition where water loss due to evapotranspiration is greater than water inputs through precipitation.
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15. drought
    
    • a temporary shortage of rainfall
    • a prolonged shortage
    
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16. DROUGHT
    Abnormal dry weather for a specific area that is sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrological imbalance.
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17. Drought
    Drought is a deficiency of moisture that results in adverse impacts on people, animals, or vegetation over a sizeable area. NOAA together with its partners provides short- and long-term Drought Assessments.
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18. drought
    drought, abnormally long period of insufficient rainfall. Drought cannot be defined in terms of inches of rainfall or number of days without rain, since it is determined by such variable factors as the distribution in time and area of precipitation during and before the dry period. Since ancient tim...
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19. drought
    Long, continuous period of dry weather, leading to a shortage of water
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20. Drought
    Below average rainfall for an extended period of time.
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21. Drought
    A naturally-occurring phenomenon that occurs when precipitation is significantly below normal levels, causing water levels to drop and vegetation to die. This extended period of dry weather usually lasts longer than expected and leads to measurable losses for a human community (crop damage, water supply shortage).
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22. Drought
    Below average rainfall for an extended period of time.
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23. Drought
    [disambiguation] A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Drought may also refer to: ...
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24. Drought
    Generally, the term is applied to periods of less than average or normal precipitation over a certain period of time sufficiently prolonged to cause a serious hydrological imbalance resulting in biological losses (impact flora and fauna ecosystems) and/or economic losses (affecting man). In a less p...
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25. drought
    an acute water shortage relative to availability, supply and demand in a particular region. An extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation.
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