drink water

  • 101drink like a fish — Meaning Drink heavily. Origin Clearly an allusion to fishes close association with water. Rather fanciful fishes don t drink …

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  • 102water down — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you water down a substance, for example food or drink, you add water to it to make it weaker. [V P n (not pron)] You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long... [V n P] I bought a water based paint, then… …

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  • 103water — 1. noun 1) a glass of water Syn: H2O; dated Adam s ale 2) a house down by the water Syn: sea, ocean; lake, river; drink 2. verb 1) water the plants Syn …

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  • 104water cooler — UK / US noun Word forms water cooler : singular water cooler plural water coolers 1) [countable] a machine that makes water cold and stores it for people to drink 2) [singular] journalism used for referring to the situation or place in an office… …

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  • 105drink — A liquid beverage of any kind, except as the context in which the word appears indicates an alcoholic beverage. 30 Am J Rev ed Intox L § 8. The portion of an alcoholic beverage consumed at one time. A court will take judicial notice that a drink… …

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  • 106drink — see eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die you can take a horse to the water, but you can’t make him drink he that drinks beer, thinks beer …

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  • 107water down — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms water down : present tense I/you/we/they water down he/she/it waters down present participle watering down past tense watered down past participle watered down 1) to make something such as a statement or… …

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  • 108water deprivation test — (for ability to concentrate urine when plasma osmolality is increased) without fasting, the patient is deprived of water for at least eight hours. Patient weight and measurements of plasma and urine osmolalities are obtained before the test and… …

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  • 109water-loading test — (for syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone) the patient is given a large quantity of water to drink over a 30 minute period; under normal conditions, within 4 hours 80 to 90 percent of the water should be excreted …

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  • 110Drink-offering —    Consisted of wine (Num. 15:5; Hos. 9:4) poured around the altar (Ex. 30:9). Joined with meat offerings (Num. 6:15, 17; 2 Kings 16:13; Joel 1:9, 13; 2:14), presented daily (Ex. 29:40), on the Sabbath (Num. 28:9), and on feast days (28:14). One… …

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