0 a clear liquid, without colour or taste, that falls from the sky as rain and is necessary for animal and plant life: --
People used to come to this city to take (= drink or swim in) the waters.
At 3 a.m. her waters broke, and the baby was born soon after.
In the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, oil rigs attract fish.
St Lucia depends on its clean coastal waters for its income.
If your water is dark, it may mean you are dehydrated.
The river is difficult to cross during periods of high water.
Dad, I swam a whole length of the pool under water (= with the whole head and body below the surface of the water)!
I don't like getting my head under (= in) water.
The water's warm - are you coming in?
1 to pour water on to plants or the soil that they are growing in: --
2 If your mouth waters, it produces a lot of saliva, usually because you can see or smell some food that you would like to eat: --
3 used to form adjectives: --
4 a clear, colorless liquid that falls from the sky as rain and is necessary for animal and plant life: --
In addition to the milking, the izinceku also tended to the king's oxen and fetched water for the king in gourds.
Then the water composition approximately oscillates at each point of the aquifer in phase with the water velocity.
This is not necessarily so, as is evidenced by the financial problems of the potable water systems in all three states.
No town could have survived without water supplies.
Removing water from living tissues causes a series of dehydration stresses.
The existence of discrete levels of critical water potential is suggestive of specific stresses that cells must accommodate during the acquisition of desiccation tolerance.
The water-transporting function of aquaporins is likely responsible for these roles.
In order to define a radius for the ion one needs a constant value for the radius of the water.
