I.
noun
1 liquid
ADJECTIVE
▪ boiling , chilled , cold , cool , freezing , frigid ( AmE ), hot , ice-cold , icy , lukewarm , steaming , tepid , warm
▪
I could feel the icy ~ entering my lungs.
▪ ice ( AmE ), iced ( esp. BrE )
▪ clean , clear , crystal-clear , pure
▪ dirty
▪ contaminated , polluted
▪ fresh
▪ brackish , salt
▪
These fish will quickly die in salt ~.
▪ salty
▪
Abscesses should be bathed in warm salty ~.
▪ salted
▪
Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling salted ~.
▪ soapy
▪
Alexis filled the sink with soapy ~.
▪ hard , soft
▪ dripping , flowing , pouring , running , rushing
▪
the fast-flowing ~ of the river
▪
All the rooms have hot and cold running ~.
▪ lake , ocean ( esp. AmE ), river , sea
▪ surface
▪
The surface ~ made the road treacherous for drivers.
▪ ground
▪
areas which are dependent on ground ~
▪ drinking , potable ( esp. AmE )
▪ tap
▪
Avoid drinking the tap ~ when you first arrive in the country.
▪ well
▪
the purest well ~
▪ bottled , mineral , sparkling , spring
▪ soda
▪ flavoured/flavored
▪ boiled , distilled , filtered , sterile
▪ deionized
▪ waste
▪ irrigation
▪
The farmers draw their irrigation ~ from the Colorado.
▪ excess
▪
She dried off the excess ~ from her hair.
▪ holy
▪
He kept sprinkling holy ~ on Mia.
▪ scarce
… OF WATER
▪ drop
▪ drink , sip
▪ cup , glass
VERB + WATER
▪ drink , sip
▪ gulp , gulp down
▪ pour
▪ slosh , spill , splash , spray , sprinkle , spurt , squirt
▪
Don't slosh too much ~ on the floor when you're having a bath.
▪
The burst pipe was spurting ~ everywhere.
▪ filter , purify
▪ contaminate , pollute
▪ boil , heat
▪
Residents are being asked to boil their drinking ~.
▪ bring , carry , fetch
▪
a woman fetching ~
▪ pump
▪
How do you pump the ~ up here?
▪ drain
▪
He twisted it to drain the excess ~.
▪ absorb
▪
That causes the moss to absorb ~.
▪ turn off , turn on
▪
They turned the ~ off for a few hours to do some work on the pipes.
WATER + VERB
▪ flow , pour , run
▪ gush , rush , spurt
▪
Brown ~ gushed out of the rusty old tap.
▪ drip , trickle
▪
There was ~ dripping from a hole in the ceiling.
▪ lap , slosh , spill , splash , spray , squirt
▪
Water got into the boat and was sloshing around under our feet.
▪ boil , cool , cool down , freeze
▪ evaporate
▪
As the weather heats up, ~ evaporates.
WATER + NOUN
▪ vapour/vapor
▪ temperature
▪ pressure
▪ supply
▪ resources
▪ quality
▪ purification , treatment
▪ filter
▪ pipe
▪ tank , tower
▪ pump
▪ pollution
▪ shortage
▪ level
▪ table
▪
Building can be difficult where the ~ table lies close to the surface.
▪ source
▪
the region's most important fresh ~ source
▪ power
▪ company , industry
▪ conservation , management ( esp. AmE )
▪ bottle
▪ cooler ( esp. AmE ), fountain (both esp. AmE )
▪ heater ( esp. AmE )
▪
household ~ heaters
2 mass of water
ADJECTIVE
▪ deep , shallow
▪ clear
▪ muddy , murky , stagnant
▪ calm , placid ( esp. BrE ), still
▪
the calm ~s of Lake Como
▪ choppy , rough , stormy
▪ dangerous , safe
▪
At last the boat reached safer ~s.
▪ open
▪
large expanses of open ~
▪ flood (usually floodwater )
▪
The floodwater had caused tremendous damage.
▪ standing
▪
Some fields have areas with standing ~.
▪ rising
▪
They climbed a tree to escape the rising ~.
▪ bath , bathing ( esp. BrE )
▪ ballast
▪
the ballast ~ of ocean-going freighters
WATER + VERB
▪ rise
▪
The ~ was rising fast.
▪ recede
▪
The ~ is now receding after the floods.
WATER + NOUN
▪ sports
PREPOSITION
▪ by ~
▪
Goods were often transported by ~ in the 19th century.
▪ in the ~
▪
I saw something large floating in the ~.
▪ on the ~
▪
The swan landed gracefully on the ~.
▪ through the ~
▪
The boat cut effortlessly through the ~.
▪ under the ~
▪
An abandoned town lies under the ~ of the reservoir.
PHRASES
▪ the water's edge
▪
She crouched at the water's edge to wash her hands.
3 waters sea
ADJECTIVE
▪ territorial
▪ coastal
▪ tropical
▪ northern , southern
▪ Antarctic , Arctic
▪ Atlantic , Pacific , etc.
▪ foreign , home , international
▪ Japanese , etc.
▪ uncharted
▪
The ship had drifted into uncharted ~s.
▪ navigable
▪
inland navigable ~s
▪ freezing , icy
▪
the freezing ~s of the Irish Sea
▪
the icy ~s of the North Atlantic
▪ shark-infested
▪
the shark-infested ~s off the coast of Florida
PREPOSITION
▪ in … ~ , into … ~
▪
The submarine had strayed into Russian ~s.
II.
verb
Water is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ eye , ↑ mouth
Water is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ bulb , ↑ garden , ↑ lawn , ↑ plant , ↑ yard