water : | |||||||||||||
a fluid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water" 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 once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) secrete or form water, as tears or saliva; "My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner"; "His eyes watered" supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields" fill with tears; "His eyes were watering" provide with water; "We watered the buffalo" 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" facility that provides a source of water; "the town debated the purification of the water supply"; "first you have to cut off the water" liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" |
|||||||||||||
|