water 的 4 个定义
- a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H2O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- a special form or variety of this liquid, as rain.
- Often waters. this liquid in an impure state as obtained from a mineral spring: Last year we went to Marienbad for the waters.
- (14)
- to sprinkle, moisten, or drench with water: to water the flowers; to water a street.
- to supply with water for drinking.
- to furnish with a supply of water, as a ship.
- (7)
- to discharge, fill with, or secrete water or liquid, as the eyes when irritated, or as the mouth at the sight or thought of tempting food.
- to drink water, as an animal.
- to take in a supply of water, as a ship: Our ship will water at Savannah.
- of or relating to water in any way: a water journey.
- holding, or designed to hold, water: a water jug.
- worked or powered by water: a water turbine.
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water 近义词
pure liquid hydrogen and oxygen
dampen; put water in
由water构成的短语
- water down
- water over the dam
- above water
- backwater
- blood is thicker than water
- blow out (of the water)
- come on in (the water's fine)
- dead in the water
- fish in troubled waters
- fish out of water
- head above water
- hell or high water
- high-water mark
- hold water
- hot water
- in deep (water)
- keep one's head (above water)
- like water off a duck's back
- make one's mouth water
- muddy the waters
- of the first water
- pour cold water on
- pour oil on troubled waters
- still waters run deep
- take to (like a duck to water)
- throw out the baby with the bath water
- tread water
- you can lead a horse to water
更多water例句
- The soil is also very dry, which counterintuitively makes it harder for water to infiltrate.
- What’s more, the wetlands would prevent some of that water from moving inland, so flood levels around those homes would rise higher.
- The EPA’s loan will cover almost half the project costs, said Lindsay Leahy, Oceanside’s principal water engineer.
- As water freezes at 0 °C, I need a way to chill water to cooler than that.
- The Memphis Sands Aquifer, a crucial water supply for Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana, is already overdrawn by hundreds of millions of gallons a day.
- Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
- When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
- Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
- Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.
- In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.
- Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a zest to the worst vintage.
- The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
- Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.
- But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
- She threw out her arms as if swimming when she walked, beating the tall grass as one strikes out in the water.