What's the difference between swill and water?

Swill


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wash; to drench.
  • (n.) To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
  • (n.) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
  • (v. i.) To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
  • (n.) The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
  • (n.) Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (2) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
  • (3) Alastair Butler, a free-range pig farmer, said most pig farmers were against the reintroduction of swill feeding because of the "real risk" to their animals and livelihood.
  • (4) The Bank of England, the big energy companies and media groups such as Rupert Murdoch’swill all be watching particularly closely, having heard Corbyn warn he wants either to reduce their independence, bring them under more “social” control or break them up.
  • (5) It described the Pig Idea as a "superficially attractive concept, promoted by well-meaning people, but it is destined to fail because it is fundamentally unsafe, and the European Union will not be persuaded to lift its zero-tolerance ban on feeding swill to pigs."
  • (6) "Transplanting the Pirates Of The Caribbean aesthetic to the Wild Wild West proves disastrous in The Lone Ranger, an indigestible swill of forced humour and oversized, overbearing action sequences," he writes.
  • (7) It's what we expect of the modern detective: a solitary, whisky-swilling wolf, with a chip on the shoulder as big as a .38 and nights spent alone on a sofa that one suspects is covered in stains.
  • (8) Ten months since it finally receded, the foul brown floodwater that swilled knee-deep through Steve and Kay Wilton’s home for much of February has, it seems, left its mark on more than just their once-pristine 19th-century farmhouse.
  • (9) Further down Seoul Street, the huge Grandkhaan Irish Pub has been entertaining beer-swilling ex-pats and travellers since 2005.
  • (10) "There is a lot of [advertising] money swilling about the pot now Lite and the London Paper are going," says a senior Associated source.
  • (11) This neutralises and dilutes the acid that swills around after the breakdown of food by bacteria that normally live around your teeth and gums.
  • (12) "For these reasons, we believe the risk of swill feeding is just too great."
  • (13) The source of zinc was flaking galvanising from the inside of bins used to store swill before processing.
  • (14) Click here to view On his Acid Rap mixtape, which was downloaded 50,000 times the day it was released, Chance reveals himself to be more interested in the mind-expanding qualities of LSD than poppin' molly or swilling Grey Goose.
  • (15) Dr Gillian Lockwood, from the Midland Fertility Centre, suggested recently that as women are having babies later and later, young women should seriously consider freezing their ova in their early 20s for use in their late 30s – after their clichéd life of high-flying career, martini-swilling, cigarette-wafting and spanx-filling.
  • (16) The revelation is an insight into some of the tricks employed by clubs, agents and other middle men when such vast sums of money are swilling around before the transfer deadline.
  • (17) Under its proposals, it could be mandatory for food waste to be treated in centralised processing plants to ensure all swill was safe to be used as feed.
  • (18) The warm bath of mutualised treacle that swilled around Westminster at the beginning of the week has turned toxic.
  • (19) He was the absolute opposite of the chain-smoking, whiskey-swilling, bar-brawling father whom I had loved so dearly as a child and who was the reason that our lives had always been such utter mayhem.
  • (20) Yet, the band called Queen, the lead singer a tights-wearing Mercury, were going down a storm with the beer-swilling rockers who just didn't seem to be consciously aware of what was strutting before their eyes.

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).