High Water

Definition: High Water

High Water

Noun

1. The tide when the water is highest.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Public Administration

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: High Water

Completeness

Impletion; saturation, saturity; high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful; brimmer; sufficiency.

Height

High water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide.

Measurement

Flood mark, high water mark; Plimsoll line; index.

Pleasure

Happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus; enjoying; Verb: joyful; (in spirits); hedonic.

Water

Deluge. (water in motion); high water, flood tide.

Crosswords: High Water

Behave yourselves, because Santa can still look into his magic snowball and see just what you're up to. And now that you know all about him, you can be darn sure that come snow or high water, Santa Claus is comin' to town! (Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; writing credit: Romeo Muller)

Hell and High Water (1954)

Deep Purple: Come Hell or High Water (1994)

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Books

• High Water Cargo: Along the Delaware and Raritan Canal, 1854 (reference)

• Low Bridges & High Water on the New York State Barge Canal (reference)

• Through hell and high water in Barre, Vermont : 25 eyewitness accounts of the flood of '27 (reference)

• Hell or high water; MacArthur's landing at Inchon (reference)

  (more book examples)

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High water table in developing area in Ankeny, Iowa. A soil survey helps identify characteristics such as water table. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Rogue River, Ferry Park. Hellgate Recreation Area high water. Credit: Unknown.

High Water at New Orleans, La. Levee, March 23, 1903. Credit: Library of Congress.

Loading steamer during high water, March 23, 1903, New Orleans, La. Credit: Library of Congress.

River landing during high water, Memphis, Tenn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Baton Rouge water front during record high water. Credit: Library of Congress.

High water, Roosevelt Dam. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

Some of the key issues affecting all water authorities, besides occasional drought, are high water losses within systems averaging about 27%, deteriorating water reticulation systems and inefficient water usage by consumers which accounts for another 25% of wasted water. (references)

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Expressions using "high water": come hell or high water ♦ high water line of tide ♦ high water mark. Additional references.

Albanian

niveli më i lartë i ujit (high water mark), kulm i baticës (high tide). (various references)

Bulgarian 

най-високата точка на прилив, прииждане на река (flow, fresh, freshet, spate). (various references)

Chinese 

高潮 (high tide, upsurge), 汛 (sprinkle water). (various references)

Czech

vysoký příliv (high words). (various references)

Danish

hoejvande (high tide), højvande (high tide), flod (flood, high tide, river). (various references)

Dutch

HW (high tide), hoogwater (high tide), hoog tij (high tide), hoog getij (high tide), vloed (flood, high tide, torrent, volley). (various references)

Finnish

vuoksi (because of, flood, for, for sake of, for the sake of, high tide, in behalf of, in consequence of, on account of, owing to, through). (various references)

French

HM (high tide), hautes eaux, haute mer (high tide), PM (high tide), pleine mer (high tide), marée haute (high tide), crue (high). (various references)

German

hochwasser (flood, high tide, spate). (various references)

Greek 

μέγιστο ύψος πλημμυρίδας (high tide), πλημμυρíς (high tide), πλήμμη (high tide). (various references)

Hungarian

dagály (affected pathos, flood, flood tide, flow, full sea, high tide, Riptide, rise of the tide, tide), áradás (flash flood, flood, flush, spate, sweep, swelling). (various references)

Italian

alta marea (flood, high, high tide, tidal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

豊水 (abundance of water), 満潮 (full tide, high tide), 増水 (increased water). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞうすい (hodgepodge, increased water, medley soup), ま�"ちょう (full tide, high tide), ほうすい (abundance of water, drainage, hose down). (various references)

Manx

lane marrey (high tide). (various references)

Pig Latin

ighhay aterway

Portuguese

preia-mar (high tide), praia-mar (high tide), maré cheia (flood tide), maré alta (high tide). (various references)

Romanian

flux (flood, flow, flowing, flux, incoming tide, the rise of the tide, wave). (various references)

Russian 

высокая вода (high-watermark), паводок. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

najviši vodostaj. (various references)

Spanish

pleamar (flood, flood tide, high tide), marea alta (high tide). (various references)

Swedish

högvattens-, högvatten (flood, high tide). (various references)

Turkish

met (flood tide, flow, flux, high tide, the incoming tide, tide), gelgitte suyun en yüksek durumu. (various references)

illu. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: whither.

-3 letters: aigret, aright, aweigh, earwig, eighth, gaiter, gather, hearth, hegari, hegira, height, higher, hither, thawer, triage, waiter, weight, whiter, wither, wraith, wreath, wright, writhe.

-4 letters: airth, earth, eight, garth, gerah, girth, grate, great, grith, hater, heart, heath, heigh, hight, irate, ither, rathe, retag, retia, right, targe, tawer, tawie, terai, terga, their, thigh.

+4 letters: featherweight.

+5 letters: featherweights.