What's the difference between backwater and blackwater?
Backwater
Definition:
(n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
(n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.
(n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The business department stopped being a sleepy backwater and became a great office of state," he said.
(2) Once considered a backwater of the international drug trade, west Africa was quickly becoming a hub for cocaine smuggling.
(3) Kerala Kayaking offers good-value tours around the backwaters, taking you to try traditional chai and sweet paratha in floating cafes with friendly eagles that sit on your shoulders, and the guides explain the culture of the area.
(4) Though his criticisms of the KGB's unreformed bureaucracy were mild by western standards, they led to his transfer, late in 1956, from operations to the relative backwater of the archives, where he served for the remainder of his career.
(5) It’s been underexposed and underinvested in, and now things are changing.” Women’s sport as a wider prospect has long been something of a commercial backwater.
(6) Howard Webb had described his selection to officiate in this final as the ultimate honour, the culmination of a 17-year journey that had begun in the backwaters of the Northern Counties East League.
(7) When France goes to the polls today to vote in the second round of parliamentary elections, the attention of the political elite, the media and much of the French public will be focused on the Atlantic backwater of La Rochelle.
(8) This is frontier territory where backwater bureaucrats rubber-stamp passing timber shipments and don’t make a fuss.
(9) We have the mainstream, and this is some little backwater.
(10) There is a human detritus swirling around in the backwaters of the welfare state which nobody seems able to do anything about.
(11) Coming from the relative backwaters of rural Wales, it was an eye-opening experience.
(12) Residents of Nkandla – a rural backwater which has an unemployment rate of 47.4% – have already seen some tangible benefits from having the number one citizen in their midst .
(13) Despite its designer boutiques and interior design stores, the village is still very much a backwater.
(14) Simon Spiller "A relaxed seaside town, but less of a sleepy backwater than it used to be: quite a few urban downshifters in their 40s, like us, and culture, including a literary festival.
(15) Then came Gummo (1997), about a prostitute with Down's syndrome and a gang of glue-sniffing, cat-killing teenagers in a Midwest backwater.
(16) Kibuye, once a dilapidated backwater isolated by bad roads, now has a highway to the capital, Kigali, multi-storey banks, offices and a cultural museum.
(17) Designers often talk about rewarding the player for exploration, but usually do so with facile Easter eggs, hidden away in mundane backwaters.
(18) • +34 911 276 085, vinotecamoratin.com Where to drink Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fábrica Maravillas Fábrica Maravillas Madrid has long been a beer backwater, but a couple of years ago a few friends opened Fábrica Maravillas, the inner-city’s first bona fide craft brewpub.
(19) We've headed out of the bustling metropolis of Blade Runner into a backwater, more easily twinned with the scrapyard slums of District 9 than the sleek, centralised hub of a Spielberg-ian future.
(20) Truman Capote's cool, sweet slip of a novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's , is a voyeuristic variation on the theme, in which the narrator can merely guess how Lulamae Barnes, a wild child from a Texas backwater, became the glamorous Holly Golightly; it is a transformation that could only have happened in New York.
Blackwater
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For Tóibín, it is the third time on the Booker shortlist following The Blackwater Lightship in 1999 and The Master in 2004.
(2) Founded by the former US Navy Seal Erik Prince, Blackwater seized on the burgeoning private security contracts that emerged after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A farm worker ploughing a field in Blackwater.
(4) Blackwater community school said in its report to the federal government that dropout rates on the reservation, ranging from 34% to 42% depending on the school, are about four times the Arizona state average of 9%.
(5) Tensions between private security companies and the Baghdad government had increased in Iraq following the decision by the US courts in December 2009 not to prosecute anyone for the Blackwater killings of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad in September 2007.
(6) She was one of the women working at a centre in Blackwater that provides free lunches for elderly people.
(7) The Blackwater Worldwide website says: "Blackwater was founded in 1997 to support the training needs of the United States military and law enforcement communities.
(8) "When the work of this committee ends," Khalaf said, private security companies "will be under the authority of the Iraqi government, and those companies that don't have licences, such as Blackwater, should leave Iraq immediately."
(9) In half the patients various bacterial and viral infections (especially typhoid) could be incriminated as causing this blackwater fever syndrome.
(10) Confirmation that he worked for Xe could prove even more problematic than working for the CIA , given the extent of hatred towards Blackwater, whose staff have gained a reputation in Pakistan as trigger-happy.
(11) The interior ministry revoked Blackwater's licence after the shooting, and threatened to expel its employees, but the US ignored the order and renewed the company's contract the following April.
(12) There was some of that LSD but that was back in the 60s.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chuck Morgan outside his house in Blackwater.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blackwater Baptist church sign in Blackwater.
(14) For years the press has been filled with conspiracy-laden speculation about Blackwater – now known as Xe – the American military contractor with a reputation for violent ruthlessness, in their country.
(15) The sea battle of the Blackwater that dominated season two appeared to have cemented the Lannister claim, though only a fool would plot the looming third series without challenging that supposition.
(16) In his time he’s been a logger in California, fought in Vietnam and sought release in drugs and alcohol, before being drawn back to the small town of Blackwater on the sprawling Gila River Indian reservation in southern Arizona – “the res”, as it’s known to those who live there.
(17) For Pakistanis the word "Blackwater" has become a byword for covert American operations targeting the country's nuclear capability.
(18) He was diagnosed as having blackwater fever (BWF) on clinical grounds.
(19) Among the best bits are the chance to sit on the Iron Throne, to examine Dany's dragons in model form, and to take part in your very own stimulated Battle of Blackwater.
(20) Casino revenues have paid for a well-equipped gym in Blackwater, and there’s an indoor basketball court next door that would be the envy of many American high schools.