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Definition of "water"

water

Từ điển Collocation

water noun

¹ liquid

ADJ. boiling, cold, hot, ice-cold, lukewarm, tepid, warm | clean, clear, crystal-clear, pure | dirty | fresh | brackish, salt These fish will quickly die in salt water. | salty Abscesses should be bathed in warm salty water. | salted Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling salted water. | hard, soft | flowing, running the fast-flowing water of the river All the rooms have hot and cold running water. | river, sea | surface The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers. | drinking | tap Avoid drinking the tap water when you first arrive in the country. | bottled, mineral, spring | waste | scarce

QUANT. drop

VERB + WATER drink | pour | slosh, spill, splash, spray, sprinkle, spurt, squirt Don't slosh too much water on the floor when you're having a bath. The burst pipe was spurting water everywhere. | filter, purify | contaminate, pollute | turn off/on They turned the water off for a few hours to do some work on the pipes.

WATER + VERB flow, pour, run | gush, spurt Brown water gushed out of the rusty old tap. | drip, trickle There was water dripping from a hole in the ceiling. | lap, slosh, spill, splash, spray, squirt Water had got into the boat and was sloshing about under our feet. | boil, freeze

WATER + NOUN vapour | temperature | pressure | supply | resources | quality | purification, treatment | filter | pollution | shortage | level | table Building can be difficult where the water table lies close to the surface. | power | company, industry

PHRASES water-repellent water-repellent leather | water-resistant a water-resistant watch

² mass of water

ADJ. deep, shallow | clear | muddy, murky, stagnant | calm, placid, still the calm waters of Lake Como | choppy, rough, stormy | dangerous, safe At last the boat reached safer waters. | flood The flood water had caused tremendous damage. | rising They climbed a tree to escape the rising water. | bathing

WATER + NOUN sports

PREP. by ~ Many goods were transported by water in the last century. | in the ~ I saw something large floating in the water. | on the ~ The swan landed gracefully on the water. | through the ~ The boat cut effortlessly through the water. | under the ~ An abandoned village lies under the water of the reservoir.

PHRASES the water's edge She crouched at the water's edge to wash her hands.

³ waters: sea

ADJ. territorial | coastal | tropical | northern, southern | Antarctic, Arctic | Atlantic, Pacific, etc. | home, foreign, international | Japanese, etc. | uncharted The ship had drifted into uncharted waters.

PREP. in/into … ~ The submarine had strayed into Russian waters.

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• 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; H2O
• the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); body of water

  they invaded our territorial waters

  they were sitting by the water's edge

• a facility that provides a source of water; water system, water supply

  the town debated the purification of the water supply

  first you have to cut off the water

• once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
• liquid excretory product; urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee

  there was blood in his urine

  the child had to make water

• a fluid necessary for the life of most animals and plants

  he asked for a drink of water

v.

• supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; irrigate

  Water the fields

• provide with water

  We watered the buffalo

• secrete or form water, as tears or saliva

  My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner

  His eyes watered

• fill with tears

  His eyes were watering

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

waters|watered|watering
syn.: H2O body of water irrigate pee piddle piss urine water supply water system weewee