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WATERWORK

Definitions: WATERWORK

WATERWORK

Noun

1. An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.

2. Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: WATERWORK

Specialty definitions using "WATERWORK": Spring Gardens. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WATERWORK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  waterwork

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WATERWORK

Language Translations for "WATERWORK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

водосистема. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сльози (brine), система водопостачання, водоочисна станція. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WATERWORK

Derivations

Words beginning with "WATERWORK": waterworks. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WATERWORK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-k-o-r-r-t-w-w"

-2 letters: artwork, warwork.

-3 letters: krater, rework, worker.

-4 letters: arrow, awoke, korat, oater, orate, raker, rater, rawer, retro, rower, taker, tarok, tarre, tawer, terra, toker, tower, troak, troke, tweak, waker, water, wreak, wrote.

-5 letters: aero, kart, keto, kore, okra, orra, rake, rare, rate, rato, rear, roar, rota, rote, take, tare, taro, teak, tear, toea, toke, tora.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-k-o-r-r-t-w-w"
 

+1 letter: waterworks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WATERWORK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 41 54 45 52 57 4F 52 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "WATERWORK"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "WATERWORK"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: WATERWORK