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UK
/wˈɔːtɐ/
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[ US /ˈwɔtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɔtɝ/ ]
VERB
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supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
Water the fields -
secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
His eyes watered
My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner -
provide with water
We watered the buffalo -
fill with tears
His eyes were watering
NOUN
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
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liquid excretory product
the child had to make water
there was blood in his urine -
a facility that provides a source of water
the town debated the purification of the water supply
first you have to cut off the water - binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
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the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
they invaded our territorial waters
they were sitting by the water's edge -
a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants
he asked for a drink of water
How To Use water In A Sentence
- But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
- A boa made from black water mink is worth about 50 dollars, a collarette about $100,00 and a coat reaching down to the hips would cost about $250,00. Black Beaver The Trapper
- We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
- On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.
- The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
- It also contains a series of waterfalls and cascades to further enhance the beauty of a hole that is certain to generate a lot of comment throughout the week.
- It also provides ample cushioning with shock-absorbing HydroFlow technology in the heel and forefoot, and has a water-repellant upper.
- Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, Hotel Transylvania, now in pre-production and, in association with Columbia Pictures, The Smurfs, now in production. Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen Join The Smurfs | /Film
- The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
