water
IPA: wˈɔtɝ
noun
- (uncountable) A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
- (uncountable, in particular) The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
- (countable) A serving of liquid water.
- (alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- (uncountable or in the plural) Water in a body; an area of open water.
- (poetic, archaic or dialectal) A body of water, almost always a river.
- A combination of water and other substance(s).
- (sometimes countable) Mineral water.
- (countable, often in the plural) Spa water.
- (pharmacy) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
- Urine.
- Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. (Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America.)
- (colloquial, medicine) Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.
- (figuratively, in the plural or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
- (colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.
- (uncountable, dated, finance) Excess valuation of securities.
- The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
- A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
verb
- (transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
- (transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
- (transitive) To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
- (intransitive) To get or take in water.
- (transitive, colloquial) To urinate onto.
- (transitive) To dilute.
- (transitive, dated, finance) To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
- (intransitive) To fill with or secrete water.
- (transitive) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
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Examples of "water" in Sentences
- Note: These drawings can also be made for different water collection and transport methods (water options).
- The acceptance of rooftop water harvesting as a suitable system may depend on the users views on the water s taste.
- In context 2 and context 3, Oscar's ˜water™-thoughts are about water, i.e. H2O, while in context 1 they are about XYZ.
- Just wanted to confirm: Place the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, making sure that bottom of bowl *does not touch the water*.
- The discharge of drainage water also affects the quality of the receiving water into which it flows, especially when sewage or septic tank effluent is released into the drains.
- And at a certain period in the investigation of the underlying nature of water, it would have been correct to say that water might not contain hydrogen, if ˜water™ picked out something different than it actually does.
- At all events, very _hot_ drink with nothing but water, milk and sugar, is equally efficacious, and my medicine (a few grains of sugar of milk) put into the hot water, seasoned as above, has often obtained great credit, when the _hot water_ was alone worthy.
- You will notice when you pay a pilgrimage to the stone (it lies at the ford, hard by a church) that the ground about it is almost level with the water, so that when the river is in flood the stone must be almost submerged: in other words, it would then _hove above the water_.
- The roast should first be washed in pure water, then wiped dry with a clean dry cloth, placed in a baking pan without any seasoning; some pieces of suet or cold drippings laid under it, but _no water_ should be put into the pan, for this would have a tendency to soften the outside of the meat.
- Heat water scalding hot first, then put in your _Hartichoakes_ and scald them, and take away all the bottomes, and leaves about them, then take _Rose water_ and _Sugar_ and boyle them alone a little while, then put the _Hartichoakes_ therein, and let them boyle on a soft fire till they be tender enough, let them be covered all the time they boyle, then take them out and put them up for your use.
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