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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whitewater
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Watergate/Whitewater etc scandal (=the scandal involving a particular place, organization etc)
▪ The name of Richard Nixon will forever be associated with the Watergate scandal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
whitewater rafting
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And on this day, it meant canoeing through sieges of whitewater.
▪ But here on the Tatshenshini they cautiously skirted the edges of the whitewater, seeking the most prudent line.
▪ We got too deep into the whitewater, skimmed a hidden back eddy, and were spun around 180 degrees.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
whitewater

Rapid \Rap"id\, n. [Cf. F. rapide. See Rapid, a.] The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; sometimes called whitewater; -- usually used in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.

Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past.
--Moore.

Wiktionary
whitewater

n. (alternative spelling of white water English)

Gazetteer
Whitewater, WI -- U.S. city in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 13437
Housing Units (2000): 4340
Land area (2000): 6.985740 sq. miles (18.092984 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.292918 sq. miles (0.758655 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.278658 sq. miles (18.851639 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86925
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 42.834950 N, 88.736119 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53190
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Whitewater, MO -- U.S. town in Missouri
Population (2000): 113
Housing Units (2000): 60
Land area (2000): 0.200341 sq. miles (0.518880 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.200341 sq. miles (0.518880 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79612
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.237021 N, 89.797465 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63785
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Whitewater, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 78
Housing Units (2000): 32
Land area (2000): 0.079919 sq. miles (0.206990 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.079919 sq. miles (0.206990 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84086
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 39.943503 N, 84.830332 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Whitewater, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 653
Housing Units (2000): 255
Land area (2000): 0.330471 sq. miles (0.855916 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.330471 sq. miles (0.855916 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78050
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.963178 N, 97.147435 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67154
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Whitewater

Whitewater, usually spelled white water in both American and British English, is formed in a rapid, when a river's gradient increases enough to create so much turbulence that air is entrained into the water body, that is, it forms a bubbly or aerated and unstable current; the frothy water appears white. The term is also loosely used to refer to less turbulent, but still agitated, flows.

The term "whitewater" also has a broader meaning, applying to any river or creek itself that has a significant number of rapids. The term is also used as an adjective describing boating on such rivers, such as '' whitewater canoeing '' or whitewater kayaking.

Whitewater (disambiguation)

Whitewater or Wild water refers to rapids in rivers.

Whitewater or White water may also refer to:

Whitewater (POW camp)

Whitewater was a labour camp for German prisoners-of-war in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba. Operating from 1943 to 1945, the camp was built on the northeast shore of Whitewater Lake, approximately north-west of Winnipeg. The camp consisted of fifteen buildings and housed 440 to 450 prisoners of war.

Usage examples of "whitewater".

His parents were then residing in the parish of the Tron church, apparently on a visit to the Scottish capital, as the small estate which his father Joseph Hume, or Home, inherited, lay in Berwickshire, on the banks of the Whitadder or Whitewater, a few miles from the border, and within sight of English ground.

For example, in Whitewater Canyon are Arizona Alders, Netleaf Oaks, and Narrowleaf Cottonwoods - plants typical of the foothills rather than of the low Sonoran valleys.

It was a beautiful place where whitewater rapids that tumbled into limpid pools, and doll-like VR manifestations of the kids clambered past sheer rocky walls.

On a broken-down Salvation Army table, the first piece of furniture she'd bought in California, she kept a piece of Wisconsin: a clump of birdsfoot violets, dug from the banks of the Whitewater River, and a flat of lilies-of-the-valley.

Webb Hubbell and Vince Foster, were assigned to examine all of the Whitewater records and those relating to the Madison Bank .

Early in 1992, a detailed investigative article by Jeff Gerth in the New York Times laid out for the public the facts of the Clinton/McDougal Whitewater investment, and of her legal representation of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.

Mike is an active outdoorsman who likes to swim, bike, hike, rock climb, fish, hunt, paint, build boats and gliders, go whitewater rafting, bungee jumping, mountain cycling, scuba diving, and skydiving, and he’s a three-time champion of the Mesick Triathlon and the Burton Toughman Contest.

Whitewater ram-paged up the beach, then surged in a sluice of dirty foam over the lip of the crevice.

After he was subpoenaed by Kenneth Starr's Whitewater committee, he was stalked and intimidated by cars with license plates registered to the U.

Indeed at the end of the town tram line they walked far down a deserted strand overlooking the big bay that had once been such a busy naval base, and Ganagweh stopped at some boulders and stripped off her clothes and ran screaming out into the water, bursting back out in a flurry of whitewater, shrieking, her lustrous dark skin gleaming in the sun as she dried off with her fingers, flinging the water at Budur and daring her to take the plunge.

Mike is an active outdoorsman who likes to swim, bike, hike, rock climb, fish, hunt, paint, build boats and gliders, go whitewater rafting, bungee jumping, mountain cycling, scuba diving, and skydiving, and he’.

Mike is an active outdoorsman who likes to swim, bike, hike, rock climb, fish, hunt, paint, build boats and gliders, go whitewater rafting, bungee jumping, mountain cycling, scuba diving, and skydiving, and he&rquo.

He dared me to face all kinds of adventures: whitewater rafting, technical climbing, spelunking.

According to the typical legends people always claimed about their peers, he ran marathons, was an expert in whitewater rafting, and could shoot a fly off an elephant at a hundred paces.