water noun
1 liquid
ADJ. boiling, cold, hot, ice-cold, lukewarm, tepid, warm | clean, clear, crystal-clear, pure | dirty | fresh | brackish, salt These fish will quickly die in salt water. | salty Abscesses should be bathed in warm salty water. | salted Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling salted water. | hard, soft | flowing, running the fast-flowing water of the river All the rooms have hot and cold running water. | river, sea | surface The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers. | drinking | tap Avoid drinking the tap water when you first arrive in the country. | bottled, mineral, spring | waste | scarce
QUANT. drop
VERB + WATER drink | pour | slosh, spill, splash, spray, sprinkle, spurt, squirt Don't slosh too much water on the floor when you're having a bath. The burst pipe was spurting water everywhere. | filter, purify | contaminate, pollute | turn off/on They turned the water off for a few hours to do some work on the pipes.
WATER + VERB flow, pour, run | gush, spurt Brown water gushed out of the rusty old tap. | drip, trickle There was water dripping from a hole in the ceiling. | lap, slosh, spill, splash, spray, squirt Water had got into the boat and was sloshing about under our feet. | boil, freeze
WATER + NOUN vapour | temperature | pressure | supply | resources | quality | purification, treatment | filter | pollution | shortage | level | table Building can be difficult where the water table lies close to the surface. | power | company, industry
PHRASES water-repellent water-repellent leather | water-resistant a water-resistant watch
2 mass of water
ADJ. deep, shallow | clear | muddy, murky, stagnant | calm, placid, still the calm waters of Lake Como | choppy, rough, stormy | dangerous, safe At last the boat reached safer waters. | flood The flood water had caused tremendous damage. | rising They climbed a tree to escape the rising water. | bathing
WATER + NOUN sports
PREP. by ~ Many goods were transported by water in the last century. | in the ~ I saw something large floating in the water. | on the ~ The swan landed gracefully on the water. | through the ~ The boat cut effortlessly through the water. | under the ~ An abandoned village lies under the water of the reservoir.
PHRASES the water's edge She crouched at the water's edge to wash her hands.
3 waters: sea
ADJ. territorial | coastal | tropical | northern, southern | Antarctic, Arctic | Atlantic, Pacific, etc. | home, foreign, international | Japanese, etc. | uncharted The ship had drifted into uncharted waters.
PREP. in/into … ~ The submarine had strayed into Russian waters.
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