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Definition: Waterless |
WaterlessAdjective1. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well; "miles of waterless country to cross". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "waterless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonym: WaterlessSynonym: arid (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: dry gasholder (electrical engineering, chemical industry), dry holder, piston type gasholder, waterless gasholder, waterless glue (building & civil engineering, industry), waterless moulding sand (metallurgy). |
Crosswords: Waterless |
| English words defined with "waterless": arid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "waterless": waterless moulding sand. (references) |
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Economic History | Switzerland | Products in this field are offered by AMC (Schweiz), Borna, Imco Waterless AG, Lux and Vorwerk. (references) |
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| "Waterless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Waterless" is used about 13 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "waterless": waterless moulding sand. Additional references. | |
| 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 "waterless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që nuk përdor ujë, i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, wizen, wizened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جدب (poverty, sterility, sterilize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | безводен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 无水 (Anhydrous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bez vody. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bitumenemulsionsers viskositet er i modsaetning til de vandfrie bituminoese bindemidler kun i ringe grand afhaengig af temperaturen (is only slightly dependent on temperature, the viscosity grade of bitumen emulsions, unlike that of waterless bitumen binders(penetration grades or cut-backs)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wat hun vloeibaarheidsgraad betreft zijn bitumenemulsies,in tegenstelling tot de watervrije bitumineuze bindmiddelen,slechts in beperkte mate afhankelijk van temperatuur (is only slightly dependent on temperature, the viscosity grade of bitumen emulsions, unlike that of waterless bitumen binders(penetration grades or cut-backs)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sécheresse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wasserlos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άνυδροσ (anhydrous, dry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | víztelen (anhydrous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | il grado di viscosita delle emulsioni bituminose,contrariamente a quello dei leganti bituminosi privi d'acqua,dipende poco dalla temperatura (is only slightly dependent on temperature, the viscosity grade of bitumen emulsions, unlike that of waterless bitumen binders(penetration grades or cut-backs)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 건조한 (Arid, dry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn ushtey (anhydrous), chirrym (arid, dry, dry-bulb, prohibitionist, sapless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aterlessway emulsão de betume:viscosidade.Contrariamente aos outros ligantes hidrocarbonizados a viscosidade das emulsões de betume pouco depende da temperatura (is only slightly dependent on temperature, the viscosity grade of bitumen emulsions, unlike that of waterless bitumen binders(penetration grades or cut-backs)). (various references) безводный (anhydrous, arid). (various references) bez vode. (various references) a diferencia de los otros ligantes bituminosos la viscosidad de las emulsiones bituminosas solo depende ligeramente de la temperatura (is only slightly dependent on temperature, the viscosity grade of bitumen emulsions, unlike that of waterless bitumen binders(penetration grades or cut-backs)). (various references) susuz (anhydrous, dehydrated, droughty, dry, neat, thirsty), çorak (arid, barren, desert, gaunt, infertile, jejune, poor). (various references) безводний (anhydrous, arid). (various references) không có nước; khô, hạn (term). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arentem. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "waterless": waterlessness, waterlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Waterless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: matterless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "waterless" (pronounced 'Wa"ter*less'): Accentless, Actionless, Actless, Afflictionless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Ambitionless, Anchorless, Answerless, Approachless, Apronless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Authorless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beaconless, Beamless, Beardless, Beautiless, Beneficeless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blemishless, Bless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blossomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Bodiless, Boneless, Bonnetless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: reslates, stealers, sweaters, swelters, tearless, warstles, wartless, wastrels, wrastles, wrestles. | |
-2 letters: artless, aweless, earless, easters, elaters, lasters, leasers, realest, relates, resales, reseals, reseats, reslate, salters, sealers, searest, seaters, slaters, stealer, streels, sweater, swelter, teasels, teasers, tessera, tressel, warless, warsles, warstle, wasters, wastrel, weasels, welters, westers, wrassle, wrastle, wrestle. | |
-3 letters: alerts, alters, aretes, artels. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-r-s-s-t-w" | |
+2 letters: lusterwares. | |
+3 letters: stonewallers, weatherglass. | |
+4 letters: streetwalkers, waterlessness. | |
+5 letters: stalwartnesses, streetwalkings, towardlinesses, wafflestompers, weatherglasses, wrathfulnesses. | |
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