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FRESH WATER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Water that is not salty
Synonyms:
fresh water; freshwater
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fresh water" is a kind of...):
H2O; 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fresh water"):
rain; rainwater (drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds)
condensate (a product of condensation)
Antonym:
saltwater (water containing salts)
Context examples:
He went on to add The exceptions to the rule about being at the coast where water comes out actually are met by the fact there is also water there – it is found through cave locations, referring to caves with fresh water, and that some historical evidence suggests there may have been wells dug near the ahu that are not near caves.
(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)
Another time, one of the servants, whose office it was to fill my trough every third day with fresh water, was so careless as to let a huge frog (not perceiving it) slip out of his pail.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The archaeologists say that this study is the first attempt to formally examine the idea that the locations of the moai are correlated to locations of resources important to the people who built them, such as fresh water.
(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)
The ship came within half a league of this creek, and sent her long boat with vessels to take in fresh water (for the place, it seems, was very well known); but I did not observe it, till the boat was almost on shore; and it was too late to seek another hiding-place.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The captain called in at one or two ports, and sent in his long-boat for provisions and fresh water; but I never went out of the ship till we came into the Downs, which was on the third day of June, 1706, about nine months after my escape.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But what he chiefly wondered at was, how such vast tracts of ground as I described should be wholly without fresh water, and the people put to the necessity of sending over the sea for drink.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Our men therefore wandered on the shore to find out some fresh water near the sea, and I walked alone about a mile on the other side, where I observed the country all barren and rocky.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
We had a very prosperous gale, till we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but discovering a leak, we unshipped our goods and wintered there; for the captain falling sick of an ague, we could not leave the Cape till the end of March.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
