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Definition: Watering |
WateringNoun1. Shedding tears. 2. Wetting with water; "the lawn needs a great deal of watering". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "watering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The dumping of timber or fuelwood in a waterway for transport by floating. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Obtained by the passage of cloths through embossed rollers, then heated and scooped out. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An unwanted moiré effect produced by the pressure of the surface of one layer of fabric on another. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: WateringSynonyms: lachrymation (n), lacrimation (n), tearing (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse. |
Desire | Phrase: the wish being father to the thought; sua cuique voluptas; hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching; aut Caesar aut nullus. |
River | Irrigation. (water); pump; watering pot, watering cart; hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray; bhisti, mussuk. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Watering |
| English words defined with "watering": Damascus blade ♦ Fountain pump ♦ Garden engine, garden hose, Garden pot ♦ horsepond ♦ Kursaal ♦ sprinkle, sprinkler, sprinkling ♦ Taffety ♦ Watering call, Watering pot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "watering": ANIMAL-RIDE ATTENDANT, ANIMAL-RIDE MANAGER ♦ Domestic Use of water, domestic water use ♦ FARMWORKER, MACHINE ♦ interior horticulturist ♦ LABORER, LANDSCAPE, livestock water use ♦ plant tender, PLANT-CARE WORKER ♦ ranch rider, RANGE MANAGER, range-management specialis ♦ Shadoff, SUPERVISOR, GAME FARM. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "watering": Abreuvoir. (references) |
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Lyrics | Sitting in an airport my mouth watering (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Watering the Elephants (1921) 9th U.S. Cavalry Watering Horses (1898) The Watering Hole (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | H.D. Pratt and Robert Walsh find Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae in watering can, S. Johns, Virgin Islands. Credit: CDC. |  | Joanne Kuykendall, NRCS District Conservationist and Kristine Harper, NRCS summer employee work on a watering system in a potato field, Palmer, AK. [Slide 97CS3160]. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
 | Watering tank developed to provide water for livestock. Credit: Unknown. |  | Wildlife watering area in rangeland in southern New Mexico. Credit: Gary Kramer. |
 | Watering area in Eastern New Mexico in WHIP. Credit: Gary Kramer. |  | Kevin Sites, (left), NRCS Resource Conservationist, Shelby, MT, discusses multiple range conservation practices, such as watering developments, pipelines, and fences. Producer is one of the first American Indian producers to enter a conservation program w. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Drip irrigation watering date trees. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Range conservationist inspects a watering device in this southern New Mexico wildlife habitat area. Credit: Gary Kramer. |
 | Holsteins at watering tank near Luray, VA. Credit: USDA. |  | 4H boy watering Hereford steer. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Watering" by Jozsef Szoke Commentary: "Rare grey cattles of Hungary." | "Watering" by Ibon San Martin Commentary: "Watering ." |
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 | Spraying car with high-powered watering hose. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Toussaint brought the provisions, and Jean Valjean himself went after the water to a watering trough which was near by on the boulevard |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A maid in a white cap and apron was watering a box of plants on a sill which shone like a slab of limestone in the warm glare |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Horses came to the watering troughs and nuzzled the water to clear the surface dust |
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Health | Pet and animal watering containers and vases with fresh flowers should be emptied and scoured at least once a week. This will eliminate the mosquito eggs and larvae and reduce the number of mosquitoes present in these areas. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Watering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 70.71% of the time. "Watering" is used about 198 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) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 70.71% | 140 | 26,789 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.63% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.11% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 198 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "watering". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Rissah | N/A | Biblical | Watering |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "watering": overhead watering ♦ watering call ♦ watering can ♦ watering cart ♦ watering down ♦ watering hole ♦ watering machinery ♦ watering of a cloth ♦ watering place ♦ watering pot ♦ watering trough ♦ watering under the vines. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "watering": watering-can, watering-canful, watering-cart, watering-hole, watering-holes, watering-place, watering-places, watering-time, watering-trough. | |
Ending with "watering": de-watering, eye-watering, lawn-watering, mouth-watering, over-watering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "watering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vaditje (irrigation), vaditës, ujitje (irrigation, sprinkling), lotim, hollim me ujë. (various references) | |
Arabic | دامع (blear, lachrymatory, moist, tearful, watery, weeping). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | поливане (affusion, pouring, sprinkling). (various references) | |
Chinese | 浇灌 (Watered). (various references) | |
Czech | láznì (health resort, spa, watering place, Wells), kropicí konev (watering can). (various references) | |
Danish | vandtagning (replenishment of water supplies, water supply), vanding (overhead irrigation, overhead watering, spray irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, sprinkling, sprinkling irrigation, surface irrigation), vandforsyning (feed, replenishment of water supplies, supply of water, water connection, water supply), trykke (oppress, press, print, squeeze), sprinting (sprinkling), søsætning, moiré som fejl (water mark), gaufrere (emboss, figure, gauffer, goffer). (various references) | |
Dutch | watervoorziening (replenishment of water supplies, water connection, water supply), sproeiing (sputtering), met water besprenkelen bij grondwerken (sprinkling), inwateren (sprinkling), drenking (imbibition), drenken (steeping), bevloeiing (irrigation, surface irrigation, trickling, wetting), besproeiing (overhead irrigation, overhead watering, spray irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, sprinkling, sprinkling irrigation, surface irrigation, trickling), begieting. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝprucakvumo, akvumado. (various references) | |
Finnish | kastelu (irrigation, sprinkling). (various references) | |
French | arrosage. (various references) | |
German | Bewässerung (irrigation). (various references) | |
Greek | πότισμα (irrigation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | השקאה (drenching, irrigation), הזלפה (spraying, sprinkling), רווי (resonant, saturated, saturation, sodden, soggy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | locsolás (sprinkle). (various references) | |
Icelandic | vökvunarkanna (watering-can). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengairan (irrigation). (various references) | |
Italian | trattamento ad acqua (sprinkling), rifornimento di acqua (replenishment of water supplies, water supply), rifornimento (accommodation, fueling, provision, supply, supplying), lancio in acqua, irrigazione (irrigation), innaffiamento (sprinkling), impressione a secco, diluizione (dilution, thinning), difetto di marezzatura, bagnatura (damping, damp-mark, sprinkling, swimming, wetting), approvvigionamento di acqua (replenishment of water supplies, water supply), annaffiatura, annaffiamento, annacquamento (diluting), abbeveraggio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 打ち水 (sprinkling), 水撒き (sprinkling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うちみず (sprinkling), みずまき (sprinkling). (various references) | |
Korean | 급수. (various references) | |
Manx | ushtaghey (irrigate, irrigation, steep, water), ushlaghey (slobber), keylaghey (choke, choke bore, constrict, constriction, contraction, dilute, dilution, slim, taper, weaken, weaken as mixture, weakening, whittle down), cur ushtey da (water). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ateringway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rega (irrigation, sprinkling). (various references) | |
Romanian | adãpat (drinking), adãpare. (various references) | |
Russian | разбавление водой, орошение (irrigation), обводнение (flooding), поливка, поливать поливка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zalivanje, pojenje. (various references) | |
Spanish | riego (irrigation), potación, gofrar (emboss), flotar (drift, float, hover, waft, wave), estampar en relieve (emboss, pounce), defecto de muarado, brevaje, bebida (beverage, drink, drinking, drunk, imbibition, inebriation, laggard, lagger, potation), aprovisionamiento de agua (replenishment of water supplies, water supply), abrevadura, abrevado. (various references) | |
Swedish | vattning (dilute). (various references) | |
Turkmen | suwarym. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розведення (cultivation, culture, keeping, raising), муарування, зрошення (irrigation), поливання. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tưới. (various references) | |
Welsh | dyfradwy (watered). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aquatio, inrigatio, inrigationes, inrigua, inriguam, inrigui, inriguum, inriguus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Phgh de anebainen ek thV ghV kai epotizen pan to proswpon thV ghV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sed fons ascendebat e terra inrigans universam superficiem terrae |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ac an wyl asprang of ðære eorðan wæterigende ealle ðære eorðan bradnysse. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But a welle ascendide fro the erthe, watering al the ouermost of the erthe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But there arose a myste out of the ground and watered all the face of the erth: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Apan dihay misaka nga gabon gikan sa yuta nga nagbubo sa tibook nga nawong sa yuta. |
| Chinese | 但 有 霧 氣 從 地 上 騰 、 滋 潤 遍 地 。 |
| Croatian | Ipak, voda je izvirala iz zemlje i natapala svu površinu zemaljsku. |
| Danish | men en Tåge vældede op at Jorden og vandede hele Agerjordens Flade |
| Dutch | Maar een damp was opgegaan uit de aarde, en bevochtigde den gansen aardbodem. |
| Finnish | vaan sumu nousi maasta ja kasteli koko maan pinnan. |
| French | Mais une vapeur s`éleva de la terre, et arrosa toute la surface du sol. |
| German | Aber ein Nebel ging auf von der Erde und feuchtete alles Land. |
| Haitian Creole | Men, yon vapè dlo leve soti nan tè a, li wouze tout tè a. |
| Hungarian | Azonban pára szállott vala fel a földrõl, és megnedvesíté a föld egész színét. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi air mulai merembes dari bawah dan membasahi permukaan bumi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | melainkan naiklah uap dari bumi serta membasahkan segala tanah itu. |
| Italian | e faceva salire dalla terra l'acqua dei canali per irrigare tutto il suolo -; |
| Korean | 안 개 만 땅 에 서 올 라 와 온 지 면 을 적 셨 더 라 |
| Maori | Engari i pupu ake he kohu i te whenua, na reira i whakamakuku te mata katoa o te oneone. |
| Norwegian | Da steg det op en damp av jorden og vannet hele jordens overflate. |
| Portuguese | Um vapor, porém, subia da terra, e regava toda a face da terra. |
| Rumanian | Ci un abur se ridica de pe pqmknt wi uda toatq faya pqmkntului. |
| Russian | ОП РБТ РПДОЙНБМУС У ЪЕНМЙ Й ПТПЫБМ ЧУЕ МЙГЕ ЪЕНМЙ. |
| Spanish | Pero subía de la tierra un vapor que regaba toda la superficie de la tierra. |
| Swedish | men en dimma steg upp från jorden och vattnade hela marken. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "watering": waterings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "watering": dewatering, mouthwatering, overwatering. (additional references) | |
Words containing "watering": mouthwateringly. (additional references) | |
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"Watering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atebrin, waitering, Wakering, waterwing, waterwings, watterin, wittering, wutering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "watering" (pronounced wô"tering) |
| 5 | -ô" t er i ng | slaughtering. |
| 4 | -t er i ng | administering, altering, bantering, bartering, battering, bettering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, catering, centering, chartering, chattering, clustering, cluttering, countering, doctoring, encountering, entering, factoring, faltering, festering, filibustering, filtering, flattering, fluttering, fostering, frittering, glittering, guttering, hectoring, lettering, littering, loitering, mastering, mentoring, metering, mitering, monitoring, motoring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, pestering, petering, plastering, puttering, reentering, registering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, shuttering, smattering, spattering, splintering, sputtering, stuttering, sweltering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, uttering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, belaboring, beleaguering, bewildering, bickering, blundering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, censoring, clamoring, clobbering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doddering, embroidering, empowering, endangering, endeavoring, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, figuring, fingering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, foundering, fracturing, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glowering, grandfathering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, levering, lingering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, maundering, meandering, measuring, minoring, mirroring, mongering, mothering, murdering, murmuring, neighboring, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scouring, severing, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, simmering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spiering, sponsoring, squandering, staggering, structuring, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, towering, transpiring, triggering, uncovering, unwavering, ushering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: twangier. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: granite, gratine, ingrate, ringtaw, tangier, tawnier, tearing, tinware, twanger, wearing. | |
-2 letters: aigret, argent, aweing, earing, earwig, eating, engirt, gainer, gaiter, garnet, gnawer, gratin, ingate, ratine, rating, reagin, regain, regina, retain, retina, taring, tawing, tewing, triage, twiner, twinge, waiter, wanier, wanter, waring, winger, winter. | |
-3 letters: agent, anger, antre, awing, entia, garni, giant, grain, grant. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: nightwear, waterings, wreathing. | |
+2 letters: dewatering, outwearing, stewarding, weathering. | |
+3 letters: browbeating, enwreathing, graniteware, nightwalker, outswearing, outwearying, springwater, unwreathing, waitressing, waterskiing, weatherings, wiretapping. | |
+4 letters: cartwheeling, caterwauling, granitewares, heartwarming, interweaving, metalworking, nightwalkers, overwatering, springwaters, waterfowling, waterlogging, watermarking, waterskiings, weatherizing. | |
+5 letters: metalworkings, mouthwatering, streetwalking, waterflooding, waterfowlings, waterproofing, woolgathering. | |
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