Water vs Turtle - What's the difference?

As a noun water

is (uncountable) a chemical, found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid, having the formula h₂o, required by all forms of life on earth.

As a verb water

is to pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).

As a proper noun turtle is

a river in saskatchewan, canada.

water

English

(commons) ("water on Wikiquote") (wikiversity)

Noun

(uncountable) A chemical, found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid, having the formula H?O, required by all forms of life on Earth.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}

# (uncountable, in particular) The liquid form of this chemical; liquid H?O.

#* 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross), Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1 , pp.284-5

Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.

#* 2002 , Arthur T. Hubbard, Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science (ISBN 0824707966), page 4895:

A water' drop placed on the surface of ice can either spread or form a lens depending on the properties of the three phases involved in wetting, i.e., on the properties of the ice, ' water , and gas phases.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The climate of Tibet: Pole-land , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}

# (countable) A serving of water.

(obsolete) Ancient philosophy.

# (alchemy) One of the four basic elements.

# One of the five basic elements (see ).

(often, in the plural) Any body of water, or a specific part of it.

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}

A combination of water and other substance(s).

# (sometimes, countable) Mineral water.

# (countable, often, in the plural) Spa water.

# (pharmacy) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.

# Urine.

# Amniotic fluid; used in the plural in the UK and in singular in North America.

(UK)

(North America)

# (colloquial, medicine) Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.

(figuratively, in the plural, or, in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.

(colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.

(uncountable, dated, finance) Excess valuation of securities.

The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.

A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.

Quotations

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Synonyms

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Antonyms

* ice, steam, water vapor/water vapour * (basic elements) earth, air/wind, fire; wood, metal; void/ether

Hypernyms

* chemical, substance * liquid, fluid * (basic elements) element * (urine) body fluid, bodily fluid, biofluid

Hyponyms

* heavy water; ice, steam, water vapor/water vapour * mineral water; hard water, soft water

Meronyms

* hydrogen, oxygen

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Descendants

Verb

(en verb)

To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).

To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.

* Milton

tears watering the ground

* Longfellow

Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands.

To provide (animals) with water for drinking.

I need to go water the cattle .

To get or take in water.

The ship put into port to water .

(colloquial) To urinate onto.

Nature called, so I stepped into the woods and watered a tree.

To dilute.

Can you water the whisky, please?

(transitive, dated, finance) To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.

To fill with or secrete water.

Chopping onions makes my eyes water .

The smell of fried onions makes my mouth water .

To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.

to water silk

Synonyms

* (urinate) (see the list of synonyms in the entry "urinate") * (dilute) water down

Antonyms

* (dilute) refine

Derived terms

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turtle

English

(wikipedia turtle)

Etymology 1

Modification of (etyl) tortue (probably under the influence of (turtledove)). See (tortoise) for more.

Noun

(en noun)

Any land or marine reptile of the order (l), characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body.

(Australia, British) A sea turtle.

(military) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.

(computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.

(computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.

* 1997 , Brian Harvey, Computer Science Logo Style: Symbolic computing

Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle.

(printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.

Synonyms

* (l) * (l)

Derived terms

* African helmeted turtle * Afro-American sideneck turtle * Alabama red-bellied turtle * alligator turtle, alligator-turtle * American turtle * Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles * Arakan forest turtle * Australian short-necked turtle * Austro-American sideneck turtle * black marsh turtle * black turtle bean * Blanding's turtle * bog turtle * box turtle, box-turtle * chicken turtle, chicken-turtle * common snakeneck turtle * cooter turtle * diamond-backed turtle * dragon turtle * eastern long-neck turtle * Fitzroy River turtle * flatback turtle * Florida redbelly turtle * Fly River turtle * golden coin turtle * gopher turtle * greaved turtle * Greenland turtle * green turtle * have a turtle's head * hawk-billed turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, hawk's-bill turtle, hawksbill turtle * horned turtle * land turtle * leaf turtle * leather turtle * leatherback turtle * leather-turtle * leathery turtle * loggerhead turtle, logger-headed turtle * lyre turtle * Madagascan big-headed turtle * map turtle * marine turtle * marsh turtle * mata mata turtle, matamata turtle * Mary River turtle * mock turtle * mock turtle soup * mud turtle * musk turtle * New Guinea snakeneck turtle * Olive Ridley turtle * painted turtle * pancake turtle * pig-nosed turtle, pig-nose turtle, pignose turtle * pitted-shelled turtle * plateless turtle * Plymouth redbelly turtle * pond turtle * purple turtler * red-bellied turtle * river turtle * roofed turtle * sea turtle, sea-turtle * side-necked turtle * silver stater with a turtle * snake-eating turtle * snake-necked turtle * snapping turtle, snapping-turtle * soft-shelled turtle, soft-shell turtle, softshell turtle * spiny turtle * spotted turtle * toad-headed turtle * twisted-necked turtle * tortoise-shell turtle * trunk turtle, trunk-turtle * turn the turtle * turn turtle * turning turtles * turtle-back, turtleback * turtle bean * turtleburger * turtle-corral * turtle cowrie, turtle cowry * turtle-crab * turtle-crawl * turtle-deck * turtledom * turtle-egging * turtle excluder device * turtle-footed * turtle-frolic * turtle graphics * turtle grass, turtle-grass * turtle-head, turtlehead * turtle hull * turtle-insect * turtle-kraal * turtle neck, turtle-neck, turtleneck * turtle peg, turtle-peg * turtle-press * turtler * turtle racing * turtles all the way down * turtle shell * turtle ship * turtle soup * turtle stone * turtle-shell * turtle-soup * turtle-stone * turtlet * turtle trade * turtle-twine * turtling * turtly * water turtle * western swamp turtle * wood turtle

Verb

(turtl)

To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.

* 1919 , Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32?, page 48

Were speeding when car turtled' Auto crashed into curb and ' turtled .

To turn and swim upside down.

* 2009 , Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering? , page 149

I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.

To hunt turtles, especially in the water.

* 1973 , Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians , page 153

Of these, 80 turtled' (65%), 26 hunted and ' turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).

(video games) To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.

Etymology 2

(etyl) turtla, ultimately from (etyl) , of imitative origin.

Noun

(en noun)

A turtle dove.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:

The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck .

Derived terms

* turtle-bird * turtle dove, turtle-dove, turtledove * turtleish, turtlish * turtleise, turtlise, turtleize, turtlize