| 单词 | free water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree water free water n. (a) water in a lake, river, or stretch of sea that is not confined or obstructed, e.g. by ice or the piers of a bridge; cf. sense A. 9 and open water n. 2; (b) water that is not physically or chemically bound; cf. sense A. 12c. ΚΠ 1736 J. James Short Rev. Pamphlets Bridge at Westm. 34 I do not understand..why the Water is supposed to rise only upon the Surface of that which he calls the Free Water, i.e. that which is flowing thro' the Arches. 1854 E. C. Evans tr. J. Pelouze & E. Fremy Gen. Notions Chem. 103 Wood, dried in the air, shows about the following composition:—Carbon, 38·5. Water in combination, 35·5. Ashes, 1·0. Free Water, 25·0. 1859 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. & Statist. Soc. 1 248/1 We constantly watched the movements of the ice in the western channel... It was tantalizing beyond description thus to watch from day to day the free water which we could not reach. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. xiii. 768 The water in the sediments contains up to ten times as much sulfate as is present in the free water of the lake. 2001 G. W. Rouse & F. Pleijel Polychaetes xxii. 103/1 Reproduction takes place in free water. < as lemmas |
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