Wiktionary
n. 1 (&lit body of water English) 2 Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
WordNet
n. the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" [syn: water]
Wikipedia
A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water, generally on a planet's surface. The term most often refers to oceans, seas, and lakes, but it includes smaller pools of water such as ponds, wetlands, or more rarely, puddles. A body of water does not have to be still or contained; Rivers, streams, canals, and other geographical features where water moves from one place to another are also considered bodies of water.
Most are naturally occurring geographical features, but some are artificial. There are types that can be either. For example, most reservoirs are created by engineering dams, but some natural lakes are used as reservoirs. Similarly, most harbors are naturally occurring bays, but some harbors have been created through construction.
Bodies of water that are navigable are known as waterways. Some bodies of water collect and move water, such as rivers and streams, and others primarily hold water, such as lakes and oceans.
The term body of water can also refer to a reservoir of water held by a plant, technically known as a phytotelma.
Body of water can refer to:
- Body of Water, a musical written by Tony Kienitz with music from Jim Walker (JVA)
- Bodies of Water, an American band
- Body of water, an accumulation of water on the surface of a planet
- Waterbodies, a Canadian garage band
- Phytotelma, a body or reservoir of water held by a plant
- Bodies of Water, an extended play from American band Make Do and Mend
Body of Water is a 2011 Finnish drama film directed Joona Tena.
Usage examples of "body of water".
The hasty defense presented by second squad was temporarily impregnable to the Posleen who were advancing on a narrow strip between a ridge and the Manada River, a much larger body of water than reality for the purposes of the exercise.
By far the most difficultand at the same time most important body of water in which to spy was the Barents Sea.
This might be a grove or a cave, or a rocky cavern, with a fire burning and, somewhere nearby, a body of water still as a mirror.
Any two-toed sorcerer could project visions on a body of water by moonlight.
The raft rushes on at a pace impossible to estimate, but still less swiftly than the body of water displaced beneath it, the rapidity of which may be seen by the lines which fly right and left in the wake.
If hundreds of thousands more of his people were coming, even from the other side of so large a body of water, the other prisoners she had questioned would have known of them.
The lake, bordered along the west with a narrow wash of reeds, was a pitiful excuse for a body of water, no more than ten miles long at most and less than that wide.
At a major landing station you will see several order wires labeled with the names of exotic-sounding cities on the opposite side of the nearest large body of water.
According to the maps, there was a considerable body of water separating the two land masses: one of the numerous great oceans of Venus.
It was not like the Greater Inner Sea, save in being a large body of water.
A body of water that is incapable of moving even fine-grained silt and mud is not going to move an eighty-ton dinosaur or even a two-hundred-pound dinosaur humerus.
The General pretends to be surprised that it is an artificial body of water.
Then he zooms in on an area in the center of the map, where the Philippine plateau extends two arms southwest toward northern Borneo, embracing, and nearly enclosing, a diamond-shaped body of water, three hundred and fifty miles across.
Probing, as she did every morning when she first saw that once-hated body of water.
In another generation, the Canmore Republic and the Kingdom of Chuiban would have been able to decide on their own whether to roll out the red carpet for off-world allies, or toss them unceremoniously into the nearest body of water (which was seldom far away, in either nation).