Word: Watering
How to pronounce: ˈwɔːtərɪŋ
Noun
Definitions:
1. A colourless, transparent, odourless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
Example sentences: "Sodium chloride dissolves in water"
2. A stretch or area of water, such as a river, sea, or lake.
Example sentences: "The lawns ran down to the water's edge"
3. Urine.
4. The amniotic fluid surrounding a fetus in the womb, especially as discharged in a flow shortly before birth.
Example sentences: "I think my waters have broken"
5. The quality of transparency and brilliance shown by a diamond or other gem.
6. Capital stock that represents a book value greater than the true assets of a company.
Verb
Definitions:
1. Pour or sprinkle water over (a plant or area) in order to encourage plant growth.
Example sentences: "I went out to water the geraniums"
2. (of a person's eyes) fill with tears.
Example sentences: "Rory blinked, his eyes watering"
3. Dilute or adulterate (a drink, typically an alcoholic one) with water.
Example sentences: "Staff at the club had been watering down the drinks"
4. Increase (a company's debt, or nominal capital) by the issue of new shares without a corresponding addition to assets.
Synonyms:
water encroachment
water cut
water content
irrigation
sprinkling
watering place
ponds
watering can
lacrimation
lachrymation
moistening
humidification
tearing
Antonyms:
drainage
dewatering
dry
Derivations:
watered
watery
water
waterway
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Watering in Other Languages...
Spanish: Riego
German: Bewässerung
French: Arrosage
Italian: Irrigazione
Turkish: Sulanma
