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WATERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion
Example:
before a woman gives birth her waters break
Synonyms:
amnionic fluid; amniotic fluid; waters
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("waters" is a kind of...):
bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)
Holonyms ("waters" is a part of...):
amniotic cavity (the fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the developing embryo)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States actress and singer (1896-1977)
Synonyms:
Ethel Waters; Waters
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
actress (a female actor)
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb water
Context examples:
One day he took her to walk with him out of the town, and showed her the spot where the boat was set adrift upon the wide waters.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Arsenic-breathing microorganisms may make up less than 1% of the microbe population in these waters.
(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)
The Sabrina Coast and nearby Aurora Basin are particularly important because regional glaciers are now thinning and retreating as nearby ocean waters warm.
(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)
The gyres have long been considered biological deserts, with waters that contain very few nutrients to sustain life.
(North Pacific Ocean fertilized by iron in Asian dust, National Science Foundation)
As temperatures around the world slowly climb, melt waters from these vast stores of ice add to rising sea levels.
(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)
As I turned away I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By some freak of the waters I had been swept clear under the forecastle-head and into the eyes.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That bitter hour cannot be described: in truth, "the waters came into my soul; I sank in deep mire: I felt no standing; I came into deep waters; the floods overflowed me."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The rain had ceased for a moment, and I saw the fish play in the waters as they had done a few hours before; they had then been observed by Elizabeth.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I could pass a reasonably good examination already, as a pilot in these waters, I think.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
