Synonyms: water, water supply, water system
Definition: a facility that provides a source of water
Usage: the town debated the purification of the water supply; first you have to cut off the water
Similar words: facility, installation
Definition: a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Usage: the assembly plant is an enormous facility
Synonyms: water
Definition: a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants
Usage: he asked for a drink of water
Definition: any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
Similar words: nutrient
Definition: any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis
Similar words: liquid
Definition: a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
Synonyms: body of water, water
Definition: the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
Usage: they invaded our territorial waters; they were sitting by the water's edge
Similar words: thing
Definition: a separate and self-contained entity
Definition: 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
Similar words: binary compound
Definition: chemical compound composed of only two elements
Similar words: liquid
Definition: fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
Synonyms: water
Definition: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
Similar words: element
Definition: one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe
Usage: the alchemists believed that there were four elements
Synonyms: pee, piddle, piss, water, weewee, urine
Definition: liquid excretory product
Usage: there was blood in his urine; the child had to make water
Similar words: body waste, excrement, excreta, excretion, excretory product
Definition: waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
Synonyms: water
Definition: secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
Usage: My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner; His eyes watered
Similar words: secrete, release
Definition: generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
Usage: secrete digestive juices; release a hormone into the blood stream
Definition: supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
Usage: Water the fields
Synonyms: water
Definition: fill with tears
Usage: His eyes were watering
Definition: become full
Usage: The pool slowly filled with water; The theater filled up slowly
Synonyms: water
Definition: provide with water
Usage: We watered the buffalo
Similar words: supply, render, provide, furnish
Definition: give something useful or necessary to
Usage: We provided the room with an electrical heater