Soft Water

  

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Soft Water

Definition: Soft Water

Soft Water

Noun

1. Water that is not hard (does not contain salts that interfere with the formation of lather with soap).

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


Specialty Definition: Soft Water

DomainDefinition

Chemical Industry

Which contains little or no salt. Source: European Union. (references)

Environment

Any water that does not contain a significant amount of dissolved minerals such as salts of calcium or magnesium. (references)

Mining

Water free from calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate. CF:hard water;hardness. (references)

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

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Synonym: Soft Water

Synonym by domain: fresh-water (chemistry).

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Crosswords: Soft Water

Specialty definitions using "soft water": WATER-SOFTENER SERVICER-AND-INSTALLER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Soft Water

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soft Water

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

soft water

84

soft water system

9

hard and soft water

7

bed mattress side soft water

5

benefit soft water

5

soft water conditioner

5

drinking soft water

4

culligan soft water

3

rain soft water

3

calculator soft water

3

hard water and soft water

3

soap soft water

3

inc soft water

2

hard water vs soft water

2

rain soft water softeners

2

soft water filter

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

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Modern Translation: Soft Water

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

Danish

  

ferskvand (fresh water), blødt vand (fresh water, sweet water). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zacht water, onthard water (fresh water, softened water, sweet water). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pehmeä vesi (fresh water, sweet water). (various references)

   

French

  

eau douce, eau de dureté faible. (various references)

   

German

  

Süßwasser (fresh water, freshwater), Weiches Wasser, enthaertetes Wasser (softened water). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γλυκό νερό (fresh water, freshwater), μαλακό νερό (fresh water, sweet water). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lágy víz. (various references)

   

Italian

  

acqua dolce (fresh water, freshwater, sweet water). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

軟水 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

な"すい. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oftsay aterway

   

Portuguese

  

água doce (fresh water, freshwater, sweet water). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

apã dulce. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

agua blanda. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sötvatten (fresh water, freshwater), färskvatten (freshwater). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Soft Water

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-o-r-s-t-t-w"

-1 letter: software.

-2 letters: foresaw, fretsaw, rotates, swatter, swotter, toaster, twofers, wafters.

-3 letters: afters, faster, fatter, fetors, forest, fortes, foster, frowst, oaters, oftest, orates, ottars, otters, rawest, rotate, rottes, softer, stater, stator, strafe, tarots, taster, taters, tawers, tetras, tortes, toters, towers, treats, twofer, wafers, wafter, waster, waters, watter, worset.

-4 letters: afore, after, arose, aster, fares, faros.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-o-r-s-t-t-w"
 

+2 letters: waterfronts.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Soft Water


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

53 6F 66 74      57 61 74 65 72

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

    

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

01010011 01101111 01100110 01110100 00100000 01010111 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#102 &#116 &#32 &#87 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0066 0074      0057 0061 0074 0065 0072

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

5381728625767867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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