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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of white water English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ...

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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.