What's the difference between waterwork and waterwort?
Waterwork
Definition:
(n.) Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.
(n.) An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) This information has been collected in Finland retrospectively from waterworks, and will be correlated with the Finnish Cancer Registry data.
(2) Removal of humus by anionic exchange is a potential process for small waterworks in Norway.
(3) For the sake of the natural character of water catchment and in order not to degrade the waterworks to mere "water-manufacturers", we are all requested to handle thoroughly and cautiously water-endangering substances.
(4) Finished drinking water samples were collected from 384 waterworks that supply 70.9% of the Norwegian population.
(5) We report a case, a 28-year-old male waterworks technician, who developed dyspnea, cough, chest pain, metallic taste and ache in the whole body three hours after heating approximately 30 ml of liquid mercury during an experiment.
(6) In the light of the current very low incidence of indigenous typhoid fever, it is suggested that the examination of relevant waterworks staff and prospective employees for carriage of the agents of potentially waterborne disease should be done selectively by appropriate laboratory tests only when indications for them are revealed by medical assessment.
(7) The Author has collaborate with the Anthos advised some sagacity and modifications, especially at the waterworks, for render "surgical" a regular odontological compact instrument.
(8) Travel tip If you’re with the kids – or just a fan of urban planning – the Waterworks Museum at Friedrichshagen has a fascinating exhibition set in a 19th-century machine hall.
(9) A second experiment was performed at a municipal waterworks in order to assess the role of water treatment processes in the production of mutagenic compounds.
(10) The waterworks founded during the second half of the last century obtained the raw water exclusively from the Ruhr-valley; they were responsible for the water supply of the industrial area situated on the right of the river Rhine.
(11) Additionally, we examined 8 samples from the waterworks of Mannheim and 4 samples from a lake in the Mannheim area.
(12) Her husband and 19-year-old son both belong to a union and have worked on underground waterworks, but both were laid off after Hurricane Sandy struck New York.
(13) Although it does not appear justified to close down waterworks effective 1 October 1989 if these limit values are exceeded, it must be carefully considered up to which concentration--depending on the individual substance--special permissions can be granted for a limited period of time.
(14) Water samples were collected from 384 waterworks that supply 70.9% of the Norwegian population.
(15) Two out of 8 untreated water samples of the waterworks of Mannheim showed mutagenic effects in the undiluted water following metabolic activation.
(16) Naturally grown cell material of Crenothrix polyspora from the well of a waterworks was studied by means of phase-contrast and Nomarski interference microscopy as well as by transmission electron microscopy.
(17) The waterworks pre-purified the water from the Ruhr before infiltration into the underground in order to increase the quantity and quality of the recharged water.
(18) This development was caused by a sudden increase of the Aeromonas density in the drinking water of the municipal Dune Waterworks of The Hague and reports about the possible health significance of these organisms in drinking water.
(19) Over the past five years, Greece has faltered on promises to sell vital parts of its infrastructure – ports, airports, marinas and waterworks – in exchange for billions of euros in loans.
(20) The contribution reports on two contamination cases, i.e., a waterwork "Durlacher Wald" and an industrial plant "Oberrheingraben" which were remedied using biological and physico-chemical methods.
Waterwort
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.