water
/ˈwɔːtə
/- They are dissolved in warm water and the liquid is taken as a drink between meals.
- Brine is a solution of sodium chloride and water that may or may not contain other salts.
- Its normally the ions that react with other chemicals when dissolved in water.
Synonyms
- Like all water signs, Scorpio finds a natural habitat in the world of feelings and instincts.
- He did, however, take note of the sign that Jupiter is in: Scorpio, a water sign.
- In the water signs of Scorpio and Pisces we see a different expression of this energy.
- On the strength of such claims the site was developed as a medicinal spa and huge crowds flocked to take the waters.
- ‘Throughout the nineteenth century, American high society flocked here to take the waters,’ he relates.
- The alleged curative powers of springs precipitated the establishment of spas where wealthy visitors came to take the waters and which may be considered the forerunners of modern health farms.
- The maid massaged the oil into her scalp and washed it with the flower water in the bath.
- Beat the cream cheese and butter together and then beat in the flower water and sugar.
- Poach the syrup gently for about ten minutes, until it begins to thicken a little, then stir in the orange blossom water.
Water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen (chemical formula: H2O) with highly distinctive physical and chemical properties: it is able to dissolve many other substances; its solid form (ice) is less dense than the liquid form; its boiling point, viscosity, and surface tension are unusually high for its molecular weight, and it is partially dissociated into hydrogen and hydroxyl ions.
- I want a strong man to walk beside me at the water's edge as the sun sets into the ocean.
- A giant marquee was erected next to the lake and a dance floor constructed at the water's edge.
- Now let me have you imagine that you are at a lake or a pond standing at the edge of the water.
Synonyms
- Players were ducked under the water and roughly tackled by the opposing side.
- For two miles the water stretched north, a flat sheet of grey in the morning sun.
- The waters of Dongting Lake and the Xiangjiang River, which flows through the provincial capital of Changsha, are near all-time highs.
- He floated on the surface of the lake; its waters were far denser than normal water.
- In the opera's famous opening scene, deep in the waters of the Rhine river, Wagner unfolds an immense, rolling E-flat major chord.
- The sanctuary is believed to be the largest yet declared by an individual government in waters under its jurisdiction.
- He added that the mine could also have been washed out to sea from recent Royal Navy manoeuvres in Scottish coastal waters.
- But it was a huge shock to New Zealanders to see an act of terrorism take place within our coastal waters, and in our terrestrial areas, as well.
- Swimming may be a symbol of birth, expressing a wish to return to the peace and safety of the waters of the womb.
- The epidural did not work and fell out and my waters were broken without my consent.
- I arrived back to my house and saw my grandpa was watering the flowers outside.
- It was also used for watering the flowers in the churchyard, and for drinking water.
- Alison was watering the potted herbs that grew behind the house.
Synonyms
- She rode onward, stopping only to water her horse or to walk him every now and than.
- But up to 1962, they were grazing and watering cattle there, pending their slaughter.
- I fed the chickens, and watered the goats; I even found time to fluff the cats.
- During her response to the welcome home, Captain Parry said she watered Windeward Bound at some of the same spots used by Flinders and found the water still pristine.
- Each time it merely turned an engine around or coaled and watered it, such as when a yard engine came in for a crew change, the roundhouse was credited with a half-dispatch.
- Once they had cleared the platform, James got off and watered our coaches.
- Her eyes watered up and the tears made their way down her cheek.
- Suddenly her eyes watered and tears fell from her eyes.
- Rachel's eyes watered, and tears started flowing down her cheeks.
- Her mouth watered just from the sight of the food.
- Geneva's mouth watered at the pleasant smell of the food.
- My mouth watered at the sight and smell but I forced myself to keep my head up and stand strong.
Synonyms
- As a malt lover, I am in the camp that says watering down the whisky is precisely what you want to do, since this reveals its subtle intricacies.
- It's like drinking club soda that has been watered down and mixed with flat light beer.
- And watering down the whiskey isn't the best way to keep your customers loyal.
Synonyms
- The man who led the investigation believes the proposals have been watered down so that the staining will not affect the appearance of dog and cat food.
- Such has been the opposition to Clarke's proposals that he has watered them down somewhat.
- Similarly, on the proposed adoption of the services directive to create a single and free market for services within the union, the proposals were watered down to the point where the liberalisation is meaningless in all but name.
Synonyms
- For centuries people believed the Garden of Eden was a sunny parkland watered by rivers meandering gently beneath a blue sky.
- The telltale marks recall a lost world from 175 million years ago when neither cliffs nor sea were there and the area was a near-tropical coastal plain watered by rivers from the Pennines.
- Ladakh is watered by the River Indus on its way down to the Punjab, and many a grain of sand in the Indian Ocean may well have once formed part of a stone in the land behind the Himalayas.
Phrases
by water
cast one's bread upon the waters
like water
make water
of the first water
under water
the water of life
water off a duck's back
water on the brain
water under the bridge (or water over the dam)
Derivatives
waterer
- All pens contained fence-line feeders and individual waterers.
- Most importantly, it kept the heated, automatic waterers for the 75 sheep in the barn from freezing.
- If you have two acres divided into four paddocks, you can place one waterer in the middle of the pasture where all four paddocks converge.
waterless
/ adjective ...- The wanderer is like a dehydrated traveller in a waterless desert, or a lover longing to see the distant beloved.
- Late afternoon found the two making their way slowly across the sun-baked earth, moving across shadeless, parching desert, two specks in a vast waste of waterless ground.
- Of course the Mongols, their flocks, and their neighbors didn't actually live in the waterless Gobi Desert, but further north in grassy steppes, rising toward forested hill country.
Origin
Old English wæter (noun), wæterian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch water, German Wasser, from an Indo-European root shared by Russian voda (compare with vodka), also by Latin unda 'wave' and Greek hudōr 'water'.
The people living around the Black Sea more than 5 000 years ago had a word for water. We do not know exactly what it was, but it was probably the source for the words used for ‘water’ in many European languages, past and present. In Old English it was wæter. The Greek was hudōr, the source of words like hydraulic (mid 17th century) and hydrotherapy (late 19th century). The same root led to the formation of Latin unda ‘wave’, as in inundate (late 18th century), abound (Middle English) (from Latin abundare ‘overflow’), and undulate (mid 17th century), Russian voda (the source of vodka), German Wasser, and the English words wet (Old English) and otter (Old English). Of the first water means ‘unsurpassed’. The three highest grades into which diamonds or pearls could be classified used to be called waters, but only first water, the top one, is found today, describing a completely flawless gem. An equivalent term is found in many European languages, and all are thought to come from the Arabic word for water, mā, which also meant ‘shine or splendour’, presumably from the appearance of very pure water. People and things other than gems began to be described as of the first water in the 1820s. Nowadays the phrase is rarely used as a compliment: in a letter written in 1950, P.G. Wodehouse commented disparagingly on J. M. Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton: ‘I remember being entranced with it in 1904 or whenever it was, but now it seems like a turkey of the first water.’ If you study a duck shaking its wings after diving for food you will see the point of water off a duck's back, used since the 1820s of a potentially hurtful remark that has no apparent effect. The water forms into beads and simply slides off the bird's waterproof feathers, leaving the duck dry. Water under the bridge refers to events that are in the past and should no longer to be regarded as important. Similar phrases are recorded since the beginning of the 20th century. A North American variant is water over the dam. The first uses of waterlogged, in the late 18th century, referred to ships that were so flooded with water that they became heavy and unmanageable, and no better than a log floating in the sea. A watershed, a ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers or seas, has nothing to do with garden sheds but means ‘ridge of high ground’ and is connected with shed (Old English) meaning ‘discard’.