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Water System


Synonyms: Water System

Synonyms: water (n), water supply (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Water System

English words defined with "water system": antifreeze, Avoirdupois weightcatalytic converter, central heating, coolant, cooling towerdrainage systemHydraulic miningmain, Milligrammesprinkler system, Supply system, systemThomsonianismUnit of measurewater pump, Waterwork, Wernerian. (references)
Specialty definitions using "water system": Community Water SystemHomeowner Water SystemLarge Water SystemMedium-size Water SystemNon-Transient Non-Community Water SystemPublic Water SystemTransient Water System. (references)

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Modern Usage: Water System

DomainUsage

Screenplays

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

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

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Commercial Usage: Water System

DomainTitle

Books

  • Liquid Assets: A History of New York City's Water System (reference)

  • Man-made disaster : the story of St. Francis Dam : its place in Southern California's water system, its failure, and the tragedy in the Santa Clara River Valley, March 12 and 13, 1928 (reference)

  • Small Water System Operation and Maintenance (1 Book, 2 Posters and 1 Leaflet) (reference)

  • Waterworks: A Photographic Journey Through New York's Hidden Water System (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Water System

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U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 65, Kerhnon, France. : Water system.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Testing her anti-nuclear radiation "washdown" system, 7 July 1954. The original caption reads: "USS Worcester ... steaming under a protective water screen during atomic defense maneuvers. The ship employs its salt water system to cleanse itself of radioactive debris resulting from an atomic attack. The water carrying the radioactive debris is shown being discharged into the sea.".Credit: NAVY.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Water System

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Business

For the Souss Massa project, USAID is also providing $10 to $12 million each year to help decentralize the water system so each region in Morocco can manage its water resources in an integrated manner. (references)

Economic History

Nicaragua

There may also be opportunities in road building, water system construction and management, telecommunications equipment and electricity generation. (references)

Egypt

In May 2000, Egypt announced that portions of the ENR water system would be privatized and made available to BOT projects; the first BOT water treatment and pipeline project was awarded in early 2001 to a Canadian firm. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

Each facility also has its own water system, waste disposal system, generator for electricity, and transportation system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Water System

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  water system

604

  distilled water system

6

  drinking water system

269

  blue water system

5

  reverse osmosis water system

37

  reverse osmosis drinking water system

5

  ro water system

27

  whole house water system

4

  hot water system

20

  home well water system

4

  culligan water system

18

  camel back water system

4

  gray water system

14

  pur water system

4

  solar hot water system

13

  waste water system

4

  chilled water system

13

  bottled water system

3

  tankless hot water system

11

  rain water system

3

  potable water system

9

  scada water system

2

  soft water system

9

  addie water system

2

  purified water system

7

  water system vulnerability assessment

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

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Modern Translations: Water System

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

Albanian

  

lumë dhe mëngët, furnizim me ujë (delivery, water service, water supply). (various references)

   

Danish

  

topografisk krokis der viser veje og vandsystem (topographical sketchshowing the road and water system). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

plan van wegen en waterlopen (topographical sketchshowing the road and water system), broom-waterstofbromide-water-systeem (bromine-hydrobromic acid water system). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

maastoluonnos tiestöstä ja vesistöstä (topographical sketchshowing the road and water system). (various references)

   

French

  

système brome-acide bromhydrique-eau (bromine-hydrobromic acid water system), croquis de délimitation et de levé (topographical sketchshowing the road and water system). (various references)

   

German

  

Versteinungskarte (topographical sketchshowing the road and water system), Abmarkungskarte (topographical sketchshowing the road and water system). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vízvezetékrendszer. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

中水道 (gray-water system, recycled waste-water). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちゅうすいどう (gray-water system, recycled waste-water). (various references)

   

Manx

  

corys ushtey, aght ushtey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aterway ystemsay

   

Portuguese

  

sistema de água. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

река со своими притоками, водоснабжение (water service, water supply, water-service, water-supply). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vodovod (water supply), rečni sliv (drainage basin). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sistema acuático. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

grundkarta (topographical sketchshowing the road and water system). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

водопостачання (water supply). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hệ thống dẫn nước. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Water System

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-r-s-s-t-t-w-y"

-2 letters: stemwares, teamsters, yawmeters.

-3 letters: estreats, masseter, mattress, restates, retastes, seamster, smartest, smatters, steamers, stemware, swatters, sweaters, teamster, yawmeter.

-4 letters: easters, essayer, estates, estrays, estreat, masters, mastery, matters, mattery, metates, remates, reseats, restate, retaste, reteams, retests, sawyers, seamers, searest, seaters, setters, smatter, starets, startsy, staters, stayers, steamer, streams, streamy, streets, swatter, swayers, sweater, tasters.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Water System


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

57 61 74 65 72      53 79 73 74 65 6D

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

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01010011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#83 &#121 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0074 0065 0072      0053 0079 0073 0074 0065 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57678671842539185867179

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Bibliographic Items: "water system"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "water system"

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