What's the difference between salary and water?

Salary


Definition:

  • (a.) Saline
  • (n.) The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
  • (v. t.) To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (2) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
  • (3) The investigators likely to have questions for Clarke, who remains on the payroll until January when he too is entitled to a payoff of a year’s salary.
  • (4) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
  • (5) The audit states: "The financial position of Zuma deteriorated over time, mainly as a result of the fact of the shortage in daily funding required to fund his lifestyle … Zuma's cash requirements by far exceeded his ability to fund such requirements from his salary."
  • (6) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
  • (7) Since leaving the group last April – taking home a reported £3.1m in salary, compensation and future share awards – the work has not stopped.
  • (8) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
  • (9) Senior management salaries have remained frozen since 2008.
  • (10) One shareholder in RBS warned that the bank might now have little option but to increase salaries.
  • (11) In 2010 there were 2,525 City workers with in the €1m-plus pay bracket with average pay of €2.3m and with a much higher ratio, 611% of variable pay to fixed salary.
  • (12) A typical salary for a practice squad member is around US$100,000, significantly less than the Hayne earns in the NRL .
  • (13) Overall earnings growth was even lower, with the average UK salary increasing just 0.5% on 2010 levels once part-time workers are included.
  • (14) According to the BBC, as of last August, Klein's salary was £195,000 and Hadlow's £225,000.
  • (15) After specialization, there appeared to be a tendency for the less academically able students to take on full-time salaried jobs rather than to enter private practice.
  • (16) In 2007, his £450,000 LTIP, combined with basic salary and bonus, left him £1.2m better off - and with nearly double the then salary of the BBC's director general, Mark Thompson.
  • (17) Summiteers might be content with the higher rank and salary … and not really be motivated to summit again.
  • (18) Belinda Lester, from the employment law firm CKFT, agreed: "If they have a bad year, it's very difficult to cut back salaries"; the second big plus from the bank's point of view is "if a significant part of your remuneration is a bonus, these contracts will make it very clear that bonus is only payable if you're not leaving.
  • (19) Because the team is over the salary cap, keeping Basketball Zeppo will cost the Knicks an estimated $2.1 million .
  • (20) The incoming non-executive chairman of IAG, Iberia's Antonio Vazquez Romero, will receive a fee of €235,000 under a similar arrangment, on top of his annual salary of €645,000.

Water


Definition:

  • (n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
  • (n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
  • (n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
  • (n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
  • (n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
  • (n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
  • (v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
  • (v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
  • (v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
  • (v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
  • (n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
  • (v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
  • (v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
  • (3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (4) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
  • (5) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
  • (6) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (7) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
  • (8) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
  • (9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (11) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (13) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
  • (15) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
  • (16) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
  • (17) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
  • (18) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
  • (19) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
  • (20) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).