WATER: значение слова

I. noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wæter; akin to Old High German wazzar water, Greek hydōr, Latin unda wave Date: before 12th century

1. the liquid that descends from the clouds as rain, forms streams, lakes, and seas, and is a major constituent of all living matter and that when pure is an odorless, tasteless, very slightly compressible liquid oxide of hydrogen H 2 O which appears bluish in thick layers, freezes at 0° C and boils at 100° C, has a maximum density at 4° C and a high specific heat, is feebly ionized to hydrogen and hydroxyl ions, and is a poor conductor of electricity and a good solvent, a natural mineral water, a particular quantity or body of water: as, a. the water occupying or flowing in a particular bed, lake , pond , a quantity or depth of water adequate for some purpose (as navigation), c. plural a band of seawater abutting on the land of a particular sovereignty and under the control of that sovereignty, the sea of a particular part of the earth, water supply , travel or transportation on water , the level of water at a particular state of the tide ; tide , liquid containing or resembling water: as, a. a pharmaceutical or cosmetic preparation made with water, a watery solution of a gaseous or readily volatile substance, a distilled fluid (as an essence), a watery fluid (as tears, urine, or sap) formed or circulating in a living body, amniotic fluid ,

6. the degree of clarity and luster of a precious stone, degree of excellence , watercolor ,

8. stock not representing assets of the issuing company and not backed by earning power, fictitious or exaggerated asset entries that give a stock an unrealistic book value,

II. verb Date: before 12th century transitive verb to moisten, sprinkle, or soak with water , to supply with water for drink , to supply water to , to treat with or…

water bag
noun
Date: 1638
a bag for holding water, bag of waters

water balance
noun
Date: 1911
the ratio between the water assimilated into the body and that lost from the body

water ballet
noun
Date: 1926
a synchronized sequence of movements performed by a group of swimmers

water bear
noun
Date: 1852
tardigrade

water bearer
noun
Date: 1594
Aquarius 1, Aquarius 2a

water bed
noun
Date: 1844
a bed whose mattress is a watertight bag filled with water

water beetle
noun
Date: circa 1668
any of numerous oval flattened aquatic beetles (as a diving beetle or whirligig beetle) that swim by means of their fringed hind legs which act together as oars

water biscuit
noun
Date: 1786
a cracker of flour and water and sometimes fat

water blister
noun
Date: 1836
a blister with a clear watery content

water bloom
noun
Date: 1903
bloom 1d

water boatman
noun
Date: 1815
backswimmer , any of various oval flattened aquatic bugs (family Corixidae) of fresh or brackish water with fringed hind legs modified into paddles

water boy
noun
Date: 1859
one who keeps a group (as of football players) supplied with drinking water

water buffalo
noun
Date: 1847
an often domesticated Asian buffalo ( Bubalus bubalis syn. B. arnee )

water bug
noun
Date: 1750
any of various small arthropods and especially insects that frequent damp or wet places: as, German cockroach , water boatman , any of various large aquatic bugs (family Belostomatidae) with the hind legs flattened and used for swimming

water cannon
noun
Date: 1964
a large truck-mounted nozzle for directing a high-pressure stream of water (as at a crowd of rioters or demonstrators)

water chestnut
noun
Date: 1854
any of a genus ( Trapa, especially T. natans of the family Trapaceae, the water-chestnut family) of Old World aquatic herbs sometimes grown as ornamentals, a whitish crunchy vegetable used especially in Chinese cooking that is the peeled and often sliced tuber of a sedge ( Eleocharis dulcis syn. E. tuberosa ) native to Asia but widely cultivated elsewhere

water clock
noun
Date: 1601
an instrument designed to measure time by the fall or flow of a quantity of water

water closet
noun
Date: 1755
a compartment or room with a toilet, a toilet bowl and its accessories

water cycle
noun
Date: 1928
hydrologic cycle

water dog
noun
Date: 1674
a person (as a skilled sailor) who is quite at ease in or on water, any of several large American salamanders

water down
transitive verb
Date: 1850
to reduce or temper the force or effectiveness of , watered-down adjective

water flea
noun
Date: circa 1585
any of various small active dark or brightly colored aquatic crustaceans (as a daphnia or cyclops)

water gap
noun
Date: 1756
a pass in a mountain ridge through which a stream runs

water garden
noun
Date: 1862
a garden in which aquatic plants predominate, a garden built about a stream or pool as a central feature

water gas
noun
Date: 1851
a poisonous flammable gaseous mixture that consists chiefly of carbon monoxide and hydrogen with small amounts of methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen, is usually made by blowing air and then steam over red-hot coke or coal, and is used as a fuel or after carbureting as an illuminant

water gate
noun
Date: 13th century
a gate (as of a building) giving access to a body of water, floodgate

water gauge
noun
Date: circa 1706
an instrument to measure or find the depth or quantity of water or to indicate the height of its surface especially in a steam boiler

water glass
noun
Date: 1612
a glass vessel (as a drinking glass) for holding water, an instrument consisting of an open box or tube with a glass bottom used for examining objects in or under water, a substance that consists usually of the silicate of sodium, is found in commerce as a glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved in water as a viscous syrupy liquid, and is used especially as a cement, a protective coating, and as a fireproofing agent

water gun
noun
Date: 1951
water pistol

water hammer
noun
Date: circa 1890
a concussion or sound of concussion of moving water against the sides of a containing pipe or vessel (as a steam pipe)