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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.

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By the action of electricity, the water was resolved into its two parts, oxygen and hydrogen.

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The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.

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And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

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Water in a body; an area of open water.

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The boat was found within the territorial waters.

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A body of water, almost always a river.

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A combination of water and other substance(s).

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(in the plural or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.

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The rough waters of change will bring about the calm after the storm.

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A person's intuition.

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I know he'll succeed. I feel it in my waters.

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Excess valuation of securities.

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The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.

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a diamond of the first water is perfectly pure and transparent

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A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.

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To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).

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To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.

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To provide (animals) with water for drinking.

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I need to go water the cattle.

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To get or take in water.

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The ship put into port to water.

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To urinate onto.

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To dilute.

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Can you water the whisky, please?

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To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.

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To fill with or secrete water.

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Chopping onions makes my eyes water.

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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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to water silk

The waters looked like any other.

The mineral waters of Mount Clemens are beneficial to patients suffering from rheumatism, blood diseases and nervous disorders.

The scented bathing waters were still warm.

It led to the last apocalyptic age that predated my predecessor here.  It was not a good time, Rhyn.  I'm hoping I can calm the waters down.

He tested the waters by broaching the subject.

Its waters are in local repute.

He'd always loved the teal waters that were neither too warm nor too cool.

He'd managed to miss the hurricane, though the waters were still rough and the waves high.

He refuses the waters, even knowing his people still suffer.

The country which it waters, however, is not of any value, and it is not much used.

Spend a day kayaking, canoeing or boating in the pristine waters off the island.

Through the mistresses Memon kept and shared with his men, Taran had learned of nothing but a desire for gold and magic waters.

I lost Oceanan's bladder of magic Spring waters when we were attacked.

The ship sloshed through dark teal waters toward a crescent-shaped bay with white sands that glistened in the midday light.

It owes its origin to its mineral waters, which have long been known to the inhabitants of Caucasia.

The salter waters apparently tend to make their way westwards close to the African coast, and at the bottom the highest salinities have been observed south of Crete.

We know the line of this frontier which ran from the Main across the upland Odenwald to the upper waters of the Neckar and was defended by a chain of forts.

There are mineral springs, mostly medicinal waters, in Greenbrier, Summers, Webster, Ohio and Preston counties.

Shortly after reaching Neheim it bends to the south-west, courses through the mining district around Hagen, and receives from the left the waters of the Lenne.

The Golden Temple is so called on account of its copper dome, covered with gold foil, which shines brilliantly in the rays of the Indian sun, and is reflected back from the waters of the lake; but the building as a whole is too squat to have much architectural merit apart from its ornamentation.

The southern basin of Chad is described under the Shari, which empties its waters into the lake about the middle of the southern shore, forming a delta of considerable extent.

In 1850 James Richardson, accompanied by Heinrich Barth and Adolf Overweg, reached the lake, also via Tripoli, and Overweg was the first European to navigate its waters (1851).

On the right the Loire receives the waters of the Furens, the Arroux, the Nivre, the Maine (formed by the Mayenne and the Sarthe with its affluent the Loir), and the Erdre, which joins the Loire at Nantes; on the left, the Allier (which receives the Dore and the Sioule), the Loiret, the Cher, the Indre, the Vienne with its affluent the Creuse, the Thouet, and the Svre-Nantaise.

Entering the department of Lot, it abandons a south-westerly for a westerly course and flowing in a sinuous channel traverses the department of Dordogne, where it receives the waters of the Vezere.

The Dividing Range decreases north of the Blue Mountains, until as a mere ridge it divides the waters of the coastal rivers from those flowing to the Darling.

Along the portion of the south shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria which belongs to Queensland and the east coast, many large rivers discharge their waters, amongst them the Norman, Flinders, Leichhardt, Albert and Gregory on the southern shore, and the Batavia, Archer, Coleman, Mitchell, Staaten and Gilbert on the eastern shore.

In many cases the rivers as they approach the main stream break up into numerous branches, or spread their waters over vast flats.

As a matter of fact, they are an alluvial deposit spread out by the same flood waters.

The great rivers of Australia, draining inland, carve out valleys, dissolve limestone, and spread out their deposit over the plains when the waters become too sluggish to bear their burden farther.

This underground network of old river-beds underlying the great alluvial plains must be filled to repletion before flood waters will flow over the surface.

These run in wet seasons, but in every instance for a short distance only, and sooner or later they are lost in sand-hills, where their waters disappear and a line of stunted gum-trees (Eucalyptus rostrata) is all that is present to indicate that there may be even a soakage to mark the abandoned course.

These lakes are expanses of brackish waters that spread or Lakes.

In tropical waters a sea snake is found, which, though very poisonous, rarely bites.

Of those peculiar to Australian waters may be mentioned the arripis, represented by what is called among the colonists a salmon trout.

Naval defence in any case remained primarily a question for the Imperial navy, and by agreement (1903, for ten years) between the British government and the governments of the Commonwealth (contributing an annual subsidy of £200,000) and of New Zealand (£40,000), an efficient fleet patrolled the Australasian waters, Sydney, its headquarters, being ranked as a first-class naval station.

In Queensland waters there are about 300 vessels, and on the Western Australian coast about 450 licensed craft engaged in the industry, the annual value of pearl-shell and pearls raised being nearly half a million sterling.

In 1827 and the two following years, Cunningham prosecuted instructive explorations on both sides of the Liverpool range, between the upper waters of the Hunter and those of the Peel and other tributaries of the Brisbane north of New South Wales.

These waters had been erroneously taken for parts of one vast horseshoe or sickle shaped lake, only some 20 m.

Here, without actually standing on the sea-beach of the northern shore, they met the tidal waters of the sea.

Behind the Royal Military Academy is a mineral well, the "Shooter's Hill waters" mentioned by Evelyn.

During the summer it is a place of considerable resort for the sake of its waters - saline, chalybeate and sulphur - and it possesses the usual accessories of pump-rooms, baths and a recreation ground.

The Muar waters a very fertile valley, and is navigable for native boats for over 150 m.

Vermont's rivers are generally swift, and in many places they are made very picturesque by their clear and sparkling waters, rapids, falls, gorges and wooded banks.

While his treaty with Lord Lyons in 1862 for the suppression of the slave trade conceded to England the right of search to a limited extent in African and Cuban waters, he secured a similar concession for American war vessels from the British government, and by his course in the Trent Affair he virtually committed Great Britain to the American attitude with regard to this right.

Some of them, like the Kreuzbrunnen and the Ferdinandsbrunnen, contain alkaline-saline waters which resemble those of Carlsbad, except that they are cold and contain nearly twice the quantity of purgative salts.

Others, like the Ambrosiusbrunnen and the Karolinenbrunnen, are among the strongest iron waters in the world, while the Rudolfsbrunnen is an earthy-alkaline spring.

They appear in a document dating from 1341, where they are called "the Auschowitzer springs belonging to the abbey of Tepl;" but it was only through the efforts of Dr Josef Nehr, the doctor of the abbey, who from 1779 until his death in 1820 worked hard to demonstrate the curative properties of the springs, that the waters began to be used for medicinal purposes.

It is only navigable by small sailing-vessels, even in its estuary, but its waters are extensively utilized for irrigation.

In the shallower tropical waters, especially on the central ridge, considerable areas are covered by Pteropod ooze, a deposit consisting largely of the shells of pelagic molluscs.

In describing the mean distribution of temperature in the waters of the Atlantic it is necessary to treat the northern and southern divisions separately.