WATER-TIGHT

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	Figure 64. Richard registering thermometer for use in great depths. This instrument recorded depths obtained by a bimetallic strip and was mounted in a water-tight caisson. Upper: registering device. Middle: recording paper. Bottom: water-tight caisson for protecting and housing the instrument. This instrument was first constructed between 1882 and 1891.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
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Usage Frequency: WATER-TIGHT

"WATER-TIGHT" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WATER-TIGHT" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: WATER-TIGHT

Language		Translations for "WATER-TIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		tiivis (compact, dense, tight, tightly woven). (various references)

German		undicht (leaky, not air-tight, not water-tight). (various references)

Pig Latin		ater-tightway

Romanian		etanş (tight, watertight). (various references)

Scottish		dìonach. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: WATER-TIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: watertight.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-r-t-t-t-w"
	-2 letters: atwitter, whittret.
	-3 letters: attrite, tattier, tighter, titrate, twitter, whitter.
	-4 letters: aigret, aright, attire, aweigh, earwig, gaiter, gather, hatter, hegari, hegira, hitter, ratite, target, tatter, tattie, thawer, threat, thwart, tither, titter, triage, waiter, watter, weight, whiter, wither, wraith, wreath, wright, writhe.
	-5 letters: airth, earth, eight, garth, gerah, girth, grate, great, grith, hater, heart, irate, ither.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-r-t-t-t-w"
	+4 letters: watertightness.
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