DITCH WATER

  

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DITCH WATER

Specialty Definition: DITCH WATER

DomainDefinition

Mining

The stale or stagnant water collected in a ditch. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: DITCH WATER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dullness

Adjective: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively, logy; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: DITCH WATER

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

Albanian

  

ujë i ndenjur (stagnant water, standing water). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

застояла вода (backwater, dead water, slack). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανιαρό νερό. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

állott víz. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

溝水 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

どぶみず. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ushtey jeeigey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itchday aterway

   

Russian 

  

стоячая вода (dead water, still water, stillwater). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

voda u jarku, žabokrečina (conferva, stagnation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuneta de agua. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless), sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), neşesiz (cheerless, cheerlessly, dejected, dispirited, ditchwater, down, joyless, mirthless, out of sorts), hendek suyu (ditchwater), birikmiş pis su. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стояча вода (dead water). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DITCH WATER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-i-r-t-t-w"

-2 letters: chattier, citrated, tetracid, tetradic, theatric, thwarted, tracheid, twitched, twitcher.

-3 letters: airthed, attired, cattier, chaired, charted, chatted, chatter, chitter, citrate, detract, dictate, ditcher, ratchet, rawhide, theriac, thrawed, watched, watcher, whitter, witched, wrathed, writhed.

-4 letters: achier, airted, arched, attire, cahier, caried, carted, catted, cattie, chadri, chared, chawed, chawer, chider, cither, crated, credit, dawtie, dearth, detach.

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

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INDEX

1. Images: Slideshow
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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