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say it: WAW-tur
water is a noun and verb meaning "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". It is pronounced /ˈwɔtɚ/ — WAW-tur. It carries 10 recorded senses.
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
the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
“they invaded our territorial waters”
“they were sitting by the water's edge”
river · lake · ocean
a facility that provides a source of water
“the town debated the purification of the water supply”
“first you have to cut off the water”
a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants
“he asked for a drink of water”
secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
“My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner”
“His eyes watered”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for water come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.