Water Meaning
/ˈwɔ.tɚ/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn inorganic compound (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.
nameA hamlet in Manaton parish, Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7580).
Sentence Examples
What happened? There's water all over the apartment.
Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius, doesn't it?
They'll need an adequate supply of hot water.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To prevent the plants from dying, the gardener must ____ them every morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It is important to drink plenty of ____ throughout the whole day, especially when the weather is very hot today.
Word Origin & History
* As an English surname, from the medieval pronunciation of the name Walter. * As an English and German surname, from the noun water. * As an Irish surname, adopted as a translation from Ó Fuartháin (see Foran), mistaken for Ó Fuaruisce (“descendant of cold water”), from fuar + uisce.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"It is wholly out of the power of language to convey any idea of the blissful enjoyment of obtaining water, after an almost total want of it, during eight and forty hours, in the scorching regions of an Arabian desert, in the month of July."
— 1805 December, Julius Griffiths, “A Journey across the Desert”, in The Monthly Mirror, page 362:
"Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy."
— 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2013:
"Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction."
— 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pages 284–5:
"A water drop placed on the surface of ice can either spread or form a lens depending on the properties of the three phases involved in wetting, i.e., on the properties of the ice, water, and gas phases."
— 2002, Arthur T. Hubbard, Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science, →ISBN, page 4895:
"Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything."
— 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023, page 80:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To prevent the plants from dying, the gardener must ____ them every morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It is important to drink plenty of ____ throughout the whole day, especially when the weather is very hot today.