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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waterhole
noun
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▪ Project waterhole has reinforced earlier theories that electric currents in the ionosphere cause the strange phenomenon of the Northern Lights.
▪ Stallions usually only fight when in direct competition for a harem or a waterhole.
▪ Swamp deer and grey langurs at a waterhole, a perfect site for a leopard ambush.
▪ They hunt for camel meat by putting land mines around the region's brackish waterholes.
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waterhole

alt. 1 A depression in which water collects, especially one where wild animals come to drink. 2 (context astronomy English) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum, between the regions where hydrogen and hydroxyl radiate, that is relatively quiet in terms of radio astronomy. n. 1 A depression in which water collects, especially one where wild animals come to drink. 2 (context astronomy English) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum, between the regions where hydrogen and hydroxyl radiate, that is relatively quiet in terms of radio astronomy.

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Waterhole

A waterhole or water hole is a depression in the ground in which water can collect.

Waterhole or water hole may also refer to:

  • Water hole (radio), an especially quiet region of the electromagnetic spectrum
  • The Water Hole, a 1928 Western film
  • Waterhole No. 3, a 1967 Western comedy film, considered to be a comic remake of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Watering Hole, a computer attack strategy
  • Public house, a drinking establishment, commonly referred to as a watering hole

Usage examples of "waterhole".

Mariella stops at a truck stop beyond Palm Springs, in the shadow of a gigantic purple tyrannosaurus and a yellow apatosaurus, but gets little sleep in her air-conditioned capsule room because of the noise of the big rigs that come and go all night like gigantic creatures at a waterhole.

I let the camels go and hoped they would eventually head towards the waterhole.

I thought of all the tourists who had sat here on this veranda, lolling with ice-cold drinks, watching for elephants and rhinos, and all the small fry that had come like shadows out of the night to drink at the floodlit waterhole.

Of course, he would furnish saltlicks beside the waterholes to make them more attractive to the beasts, and bring them to be photographed and gawked at.

We suspected that they had headed for the great Debil-devil Waterhole, where, it was said, the Bunyip appeared: that mysterious animal, or devil, or thing, which nobody has ever seen, but many have pretended to see.

The boys learned to recognize all these and the other sounds of the night - the birds such as the night jar and the dikkop, the smaller mammals, the night ape, the genet and the civet, and the insects and reptiles that squealed and hummed and croaked in the reeds of the waterhole.

Slowly the wagons which they had emptied of ivory beside the waterhole began to fill again, for the game was concentrated along the river.

He is known from the Persian Gulf to the Hadhramaut, from Muscat on the Indian Sea to the waterholes of the Rub al Khali and the Liwa Oasis as a great man and the friend of all the Bedou.

They knew the waterholes, clean and foul, would defend us from bandits, carried extra food and water, and had agreements with nomads whose pasturing territory we'd be passing through.

They knew the waterholes, clean and foul, would defend us from bandits, carried extra food and water, and had agreements with nomads whose pasturing territory we’d be passing through.

Rushing past an elderly manservant -- Phillips, the club's quiet and tactful majordomo -- and nearly causing the aged butler to drop a tray of Sapphire Gin and Quinine Water cocktails, the immoderately gasping visitor came to a stop at a herd of high-backed leather chairs clustered around a broad table like rhinos at a waterhole on the Rider Haggard estates.

We turned to and roped and branded fourteen head the following morning, cleaned out a waterhole where there'd been a slide, and checked out the grass on the upper meadows.

Dima was there about a year ago and he says the whole mountain was bare, nothing but shambas, the lake we called Paradise dried up, most of the waterholes too.

Herds of animals come to the pans and waterholes, while the grasses and trees turn cheerfully green.

A few more weeks and the central Kalahari would be almost impassible for any humans but Bushmen—and even they would be holed up around the few permanent waterholes, traveling as little as possible in the terrible heat—and would stay that way until the late-October rains.