water

US: /ˈwɔtɝ/

UK: /wˈɔːtɐ/


English - Vietnamese dictionary

water /'wɔ:tə/
  • danh từ
    • nước
      • to drink water: uống nước
      • to take in fresh water: (hàng hải) lấy nước ngọt (để đi biển)
      • to turn on the water: mở nước
      • to cut off the water: khoá nước
      • to wash something in two or three waters: rửa vật gì hai hay ba nước
    • dung dịch nước, nước
    • khối nước (của sông, hồ...)
    • sông nước; biển; đường thuỷ
      • on land and water: trên bộ và dưới nước
      • by water: bằng đường thuỷ, bằng đường biển
      • to cross the water: vượt biển
    • thuỷ triều, triều
      • at high water: lúc triều lên
      • at low water: lúc triều xuống
    • nước suối; nước tiểu
      • to take the waters at: tắm nước suối ở
      • to make water: tiểu tiện
      • red water: nước tiểu có máu
    • nước, nước bóng, nước láng (của kim cương, kim loại, tơ lụa)
      • diamond of the first water: kim cương nước tốt nhất
    • (hội họa) tranh màu nước
    • to back water
      • chèo ngược
    • to be in deep water(s)
      • (xem) deep
    • to be in low water
      • (xem) low
    • to be in smooth water
      • ở vào hoàn cảnh thuận lợi; thuận buồm xuôi gió
    • to bring water to someone's mouth
      • làm ai thèm chảy dãi
    • to cast (throw) one's bread upon the water(s)
      • làm điều tốt không cần được trả ơn
    • to go through fire and water
      • (xem) fire
    • to hold water
      • (xem) hold
    • to keep one's head above water
      • (xem) above
    • like a fish out of water
      • như cá trên cạn; lạc lõng bỡ ngỡ trong một môi trường mới lạ
    • to spend money like water
      • tiêu tiền như nước
    • still waters run deep
      • (xem) deep
    • to throw cold water on
      • giội gáo nước lạnh vào; làm cho nản chí
    • written in water
      • nhất thời (tiếng tăm); chóng bị quên (thành tích)
  • ngoại động từ
    • tưới, tưới nước
      • to water a district: tưới một miền
    • cho uống nước
      • to water the buffaloes: cho trâu uống nước
    • cung cấp nước
      • to water a town: cung cấp nước cho một thành phố
    • pha nước vào
    • làm gợn sóng, làm cho có vân sóng (trên tơ lụa)
      • watered silk: lụa có vân sóng
    • (tài chính) làm loãng (vốn)
      • to the nominal capital of the company: làm loãng vốn danh nghĩa của công ty (bằng cách tăng cổ phần mà không có vốn tương xứng)
  • nội động từ
    • uống nước, đi uống nước
      • the horses are watering: những con ngựa đang uống nước
    • lấy nước ngọt, lấy nước (tàu thuỷ, ô tô)
    • chảy nước, ứa nước
      • his eyes watered: nó chảy nước mắt
      • to make one's mouth water: làm thèm chảy nước dãi
    • to water down
      • giảm bớt đi, làm dịu đi
    • to water down the details of a story: làm cho chi tiết của câu chuyện bớt đậm nét
    • to water down a blame: trách khéo, trách ngọt

Advanced English dictionary

noun, verb
+ noun
1 [U] a liquid without colour, smell or taste that falls as rain, is in lakes, rivers and seas, and is used for drinking, washing, etc: a glass of water + drinking water + water pollution + clean / dirty water + water shortages + There is hot and cold running water in all the bedrooms. + The water (= the supply of water) was turned off for several hours each day during the drought.
See also - BATHWATER
2 [U] an area of water, especially a lake, river, sea or ocean: We walked down to the water's edge. + She fell into the water. + shallow / deep water + In the lagoon the water was calm.
See also - BACKWATER, BREAKWATER
3 (waters) [pl.] the water in a particular lake, river, sea or ocean: the grey waters of the River Clyde + This species is found in coastal waters around the Indian Ocean.
4 [U] the surface of a mass of water: She dived under the water. + The leaves floated on the water. + He disappeared under the water. + I could see my reflection in the water.
See also - UNDERWATER
5 (waters) [pl.] an area of sea or ocean belonging to a particular country: We were still in British waters. + fishing in international waters
See also - TERRITORIAL WATERS
Help Note: There are many other compounds ending in water. You will find them at their place in the alphabet.
Idioms: by water (formal) using a boat or ship: They reached Naples by water.
it's (all) water under the bridge (spoken) used to say that sth happened in the past and is now forgotten or no longer important
like water (informal) in large quantities: He spends money like water.
(be in / get into) murky / uncharted waters to get into a difficult or dangerous situation that you do not know anything about: The conversation got into the murky waters of jealousy and relationships.
not hold water (informal) if an argument, an excuse, a theory, etc. does not hold water, you cannot believe it
sb's waters break when a pregnant woman's waters break, the liquid in her WOMB passes out of her body just before the baby is born
(like) water off a duck's back (informal) used to say that sth, especially criticism, has no effect on sb/sth: I can't tell my son what to do; it's water off a duck's back with him.
more at BLOOD, COLD adj., DEAD adj., DEEP adj., DIP v., DUCK n., FISH n., HEAD n., HELL, HOT adj., PASS v., POUR, STILL adj., TEST v., TREAD adj.
+ verb
1 [VN] to pour water on plants, etc: to water the plants / garden
2 [V] (of the eyes) to become full of tears: The smoke made my eyes water.
3 [V] (of the mouth) to produce SALIVA: The smells from the kitchen made our mouths water.
4 [VN] to give water to an animal to drink: to water the horses + (humorous) After a tour of the grounds, the guests were fed and watered.
5 [VN] [usually passive] (technical) (of a river, etc.) to provide an area of land with water: The valley is watered by a stream.
6 [VN] to add water to an alcoholic drink: watered wine
Phrasal Verbs: water sth<->down
1 to make a liquid weaker by adding water
Synonym: DILUTE
2 [usually passive] to change a speech, a piece of writing, etc. in order to make it less offensive or forceful
Synonym: DILUTE

Thesaurus dictionary

n.
1 H2O; distilled water, tap water, drinking-water, bottled water, spa water, still water, soda (water), effervescent water, mineral water; sea water, salt water; ditch-water, dishwater, bath-water, US branch water, FacetioUS Adam's ale, Technical or Latin aqua; Technical heavy water or deuterium oxide or D2O; Brit fizzy water:
Pure water is odourless, tasteless, and colourless.
2 not hold water. be illogical or unsound or invalid, not be sensible, be inconsistent, not make sense, be unbelievable or incredible, be indefensible, be unfeasible or unworkable, not work, not function, not hold up under or bear scrutiny or examination, not ring true, ring false, Colloq not wash:
Her account of her whereabouts that day just doesn't hold water.
3 like water. lavishly, extravagantly, freely, wastefully, profligately, open-handedly, liberally, excessively, copiously, unstintingly, unreservedly:
They've been spending money like water since they won the football pools.
4 make water. urinate, pass water, Colloq pee, piss:
When a dog makes water, it marks off a territory bounded by its scent.
5 of the first water. of superior or excellent or first or top or A-one or the finest or the highest or the best quality or grade; first-grade, top-grade:
These were not industrial stones but diamonds of the first water.
v.
6 inundate, flood, drench, saturate, soak, douse, irrigate, hose, wet, shower, splash, spray, sprinkle, moisten, damp, dampen, bedew:
If you don't water the garden, the vegetables will die.
7 Often, water down. dilute, weaken, thin out, adulterate; cut; mollify, modify, soften, tone down, qualify:
We no longer go there because they water the drinks. They told the children a watered-down version of what had happened.

Collocation

1 liquid

ADJ.

boiling, cold, hot, ice-cold, lukewarm, tepid, warm | clean, clear, crystal-clear, pure | dirty | fresh | brackish, salt
These fish will quickly die in salt water.
| salty
Abscesses should be bathed in warm salty water.
| salted
Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling salted water.
| hard, soft | flowing, running
the fast-flowing water of the river All the rooms have hot and cold running water.
| river, sea | surface
The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers.
| drinking | tap
Avoid drinking the tap water when you first arrive in the country.
| bottled, mineral, spring | waste | scarce

QUANT.

drop

VERB + WATER

drink | pour | slosh, spill, splash, spray, sprinkle, spurt, squirt
Don't slosh too much water on the floor when you're having a bath. The burst pipe was spurting water everywhere.
| filter, purify | contaminate, pollute | turn off/on
They turned the water off for a few hours to do some work on the pipes.

WATER + VERB

flow, pour, run | gush, spurt
Brown water gushed out of the rusty old tap.
| drip, trickle
There was water dripping from a hole in the ceiling.
| lap, slosh, spill, splash, spray, squirt
Water had got into the boat and was sloshing about under our feet.
| boil, freeze

WATER + NOUN

vapour | temperature | pressure | supply | resources | quality | purification, treatment | filter | pollution | shortage | level | table
Building can be difficult where the water table lies close to the surface.
| power | company, industry

PHRASES

water-repellent
water-repellent leather
| water-resistant
a water-resistant watch

2 mass of water

ADJ.

deep, shallow | clear | muddy, murky, stagnant | calm, placid, still
the calm waters of Lake Como
| choppy, rough, stormy | dangerous, safe
At last the boat reached safer waters.
| flood
The flood water had caused tremendous damage.
| rising
They climbed a tree to escape the rising water.
| bathing

WATER + NOUN

sports

PREP.

by ~
Many goods were transported by water in the last century.
| in the ~
I saw something large floating in the water.
| on the ~
The swan landed gracefully on the water.
| through the ~
The boat cut effortlessly through the water.
| under the ~
An abandoned village lies under the water of the reservoir.

PHRASES

the water's edge
Shecrouched at the water's edge towash her hands.

3 waters: sea

ADJ.

territorial | coastal | tropical | northern, southern | Antarctic, Arctic | Atlantic, Pacific, etc. | home, foreign, international | Japanese, etc. | uncharted
The ship had drifted into uncharted waters.

PREP.

in/into … ~
The submarine had strayed into Russian waters.


Concise dictionary

waters|watered|watering'wɔtə(r) ,'wɑ- /'wɔː-
noun
+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
+the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
+a facility that provides a source of water
+once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
+liquid excretory product
+a fluid necessary for the life of most animals and plants
verb
+supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
+provide with water
+secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
+fill with tears

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