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waterborne
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Waterborne is a 2005 independent film by Indian American film maker Ben Rekhi about the fates of three different groups of people after a terrorist attack pollutes the water supply of Los Angeles, resulting in a severe water shortage. It stars Christopher ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN disease ▪ They include a new way of controlling waterborne diseases , and of administering drugs to people with chronic diseases. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ken looked like a waterborne Tarzan, swinging through the ...
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a. 1 transported or transmitted by water 2 floating on the water; afloat
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adj. transported by water; "waterborne freight" supported by water; "waterborne craft"
Usage examples of waterborne.
Driving over it, Cavanaugh noticed the giant waterborne mowing machine cutting channels through hydrilla, an aquatic weed that had sneaked into the U.
They sped around fleeing yachties, dodged the Coast Guard cutter that had positioned itself to keep back curious tourists, shot past the two big lifeboats that looked like fat waterborne grubs and that were carrying the multinational crew of the tanker to safety.
They looked at the boat-people: Independent traders in black hats and white neck-cloths, waterborne Gypsies, ruddy Irish and Scottish men, and simply Englishmen with complicated personal stories, negotiating with sure-footed boat-dogs, throwing buckets of mysterious fluids overboard, pursuing domestic arguments with unseen persons in the tents or shacks pitched on their decks.
After a while Halliday said, "Incidentally, though it got no press, your waterborne armored raid across the Gulf of Suez, back in September, was a greater coup.
Tall derricks and cranes similar to those on the Glomar extended off the deck like waterborne oil rigs.
The frolic and various play of all his polish'd limbs, as they appeared above the surface, in the course of his swimming or wantoning with the water, amus'd and insensibly delighted me: sometimes he lay motionless, on his back, waterborne, and dragging after him a fine head of hair, that, floating, swept the stream in a bush of black curls.