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Water

noun

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. Synonym: H2O.

The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean). Synonym: body of water. "They were sitting by the water's edge"

Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).

A facility that provides a source of water. Synonyms: water supply, water system. "First you have to cut off the water"

Liquid excretory product. Synonyms: pee, piddle, piss, urine, weewee. "The child had to make water"

A liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants.

verb

(past & past part. watered; pres. part. watering)

Supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams. Synonym: irrigate.

Provide with water.

Secrete or form water, as tears or saliva. "His eyes watered"

Fill with tears.

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"Water" Quotes from Famous Books

... distinguished the musical note of the long-tailed duck and the harsh scream of the great northern diver, while the profound calmness of the weather enabled him to hear at intervals the soft blow and the lazy plash of a white whale, turning, it might be, on his other side in his water-bed on the ...

— The Giant of the North - Pokings Round the Pole • R.M. Ballantyne

... but how many on this side of the Atlantic are familiar with its American counterpart? Here, too, the cuckoo delights in running water and damp, cloudy weather like that of an English spring; it haunts the willows by our river-sides, where as yet no "immortal bard" arises to give it fame. It "loud sings" in our shrubbery, too. Indeed, if we cannot study our ...

— Bird Neighbors • Neltje Blanchan

... Mary and Mrs. Cafferty's lodger met. As he came in by the hall door one day Mary was carrying upstairs a large water bucket, the portage of which two or three times a day is so heavy a strain on the dweller in tenements. The youth instantly seized the bucket and, despite her protestations and appeals, he carried it upstairs. He walked a few steps in advance of Mary, whistling cheerfully ...

— Mary, Mary • James Stephens

... there was not the desolation of the plains, for in the wood were many wild creatures, and man was there as well; not man of a very advanced type, it is true, but man rugged and dirty, and philosophic. In the shadow of the evergreens, upon a point extending far into the water, stood the tepees of a group of Indians, hardy hunters and dependents in a vague sort of way of the great fur company which took its ...

— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo

... sides by buildings of the present fort. It is a large round whitewashed structure having the appearance of a huge cheesebox; its walls are of enormous thickness and it is now used as a jail. In former days the inhabitants had much difficulty in obtaining drinking water, but Puerto Plata was the first city to be provided with a general system of water works, having been followed only recently by Santiago. The water is brought from a stream a little over a mile away. The ride there is a beautiful one but it goes to prove that ...

— Santo Domingo - A Country With A Future • Otto Schoenrich

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