Water vs. Swill — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Water and Swill
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Water
Water (chemical formula H2O) is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a solvent). It is vital for all known forms of life, even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients.
Swill
Swill is food for animals in liquid or partly liquid form.The term can also be used as a derogatory label for any drink meant for human ingestion perceived as unpalatable or nearly so.
Water
A colourless, transparent, odourless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms
Sodium chloride dissolves in water
Can I have a drink of water?
Swill
To drink greedily or grossly
"Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux" (W.H. Auden).
Water
A stretch or area of water, such as a river, sea, or lake
The lawns ran down to the water's edge
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Swill
To follow the ingestion of (food, for example) with the ingestion of a liquid
Swilled down the pretzels with soda.
Water
Urine
Drinking alcohol will make you need to pass water more often
Swill
To flood with water, as for washing or rinsing
Swilled out the glass.
Water
The amniotic fluid surrounding a fetus in the womb, especially as discharged in a flow shortly before birth
I think my waters have broken
Swill
To swirl (a liquid) around in a container or in one's mouth
Swilled the wine in the glass before sniffing.
Water
The quality of transparency and brilliance shown by a diamond or other gem.
Swill
To feed (animals) with swill.
Water
Capital stock that represents a book value greater than the true assets of a company.
Swill
To drink greedily or to excess.
Water
Pour or sprinkle water over (a plant or area) in order to encourage plant growth
I went out to water the geraniums
Swill
A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.
Water
(of a person's eyes) fill with tears
Rory blinked, his eyes watering
Swill
Liquor or other alcohol of poor quality
I won't drink this swill.
Water
Dilute or adulterate (a drink, typically an alcoholic one) with water
Staff at the club had been watering down the drinks
Swill
A swig or gulp of a drink.
Water
Increase (a company's debt, or nominal capital) by the issue of new shares without a corresponding addition to assets.
Swill
(collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
Water
A clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid, H2O, essential for most plant and animal life and the most widely used of all solvents. Freezing point 0°C (32°F); boiling point 100°C (212°F); specific gravity (4°C) 1.0000; weight per gallon (15°C) 8.338 pounds (3.782 kilograms).
Swill
(by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.
Water
Any of various forms of water
Waste water.
Swill
Anything disgusting or worthless.
This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.
Water
Often waters Naturally occurring mineral water, as at a spa.
Swill
(informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
Water
A body of water such as a sea, lake, river, or stream.
Swill
(informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
Water
Waters A particular stretch of sea or ocean, especially that of a state or country
Escorted out of British waters.
Swill
(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.
Water
A supply of water
Had to turn off the water while repairing the broken drain.
Swill
(transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
Water
A water supply system.
Swill
(transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
Water
Any of the fluids normally secreted from the body, such as urine, perspiration, tears, or saliva.
Swill
(transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
Water
A fluid present in a body part in abnormal quantities as a result of injury or disease
Water on the knee.
Swill
To move around or over a surface.
Water
The fluid surrounding a fetus in the uterus; amniotic fluid.
Swill
To inebriate; to fill with drink.
Water
An aqueous solution of a substance, especially a gas
Ammonia water.
Swill
(transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).
Water
A wavy finish or sheen, as of a fabric or metal.
Swill
To wash; to drench.
As fearfully as doth a galled rockO'erhang and jutty his confounded base,Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Water
The valuation of the assets of a business firm beyond their real value.
Swill
To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
Water
Stock issued in excess of paid-in capital.
Swill
To inebriate; to fill with drink.
I should be lothTo meet the rudeness and swilled insolenceOf such late wassailers.
Water
The transparency and luster of a gem.
Swill
To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
Water
A level of excellence.
Swill
The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; - called also swillings.
Water
To pour or sprinkle water on; make wet
Watered the garden.
Swill
Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
Water
To give drinking water to.
Swill
Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
Water
To lead (an animal) to drinking water.
Swill
Feed pigs
Water
To dilute or weaken by adding water
A bar serving whiskey that had been watered.
Swill
Drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
Water
To give a sheen to the surface of (fabric or metal).
Water
To increase (the number of shares of stock) without increasing the value of the assets represented.
Water
To irrigate (land).
Water
To produce or discharge fluid, as from the eyes.
Water
To salivate in anticipation of food
The wonderful aroma from the kitchen makes my mouth water.
Water
To take on a supply of water, as a ship.
Water
To drink water, as an animal.
Water
(uncountable) A substance (of molecular formula H2O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
By the action of electricity, the water was resolved into its two parts, oxygen and hydrogen.
Water
The liquid form of this substance: liquid H2O.
May I have a glass of water?
Your plants need more water.
Water
(countable) A serving of liquid water.
Water
The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
He showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God.
Water
Water in a body; an area of open water.
The boat was found within the territorial waters.
These seals are a common sight in the coastal waters of Chile.
Water
A body of water, almost always a river.
Water
A combination of water and other substance(s).
Water
Mineral water.
Perrier is the most popular water in this restaurant.
Water
Spa water.
Many people visit Bath to take the waters.
Water
(pharmacy) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
Ammonia water
Water
Urine.
Water
Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America. (The Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary says "often used in plural; also: bag of waters".)
Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s water breaks.
Before your child is born, your water(s) will break.
Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s waters break.
Water
Fluids in the body, especially when causing swelling.
He suffers from water on the knee.
Water
A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
The rough waters of change will bring about the calm after the storm.
Water
A person's intuition.
I know he'll succeed. I feel it in my waters.
Water
Excess valuation of securities.
Water
The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
A diamond of the first water is perfectly pure and transparent
Water
A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
Water
(transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
Water
(transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
Water
(transitive) To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
I need to water the cattle.
Water
(intransitive) To get or take in water.
The ship put into port to water.
Water
To urinate onto.
Nature called, so I stepped into the woods and watered a tree.
Water
(transitive) To dilute.
Can you water the whisky, please?
Water
To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
Water
(intransitive) To fill with or secrete water.
Chopping onions makes my eyes water.
The smell of fried onions makes my mouth water.
Water
(transitive) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
To water silk
Water
The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
Water
A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
Remembering he had passed over a small water a poor scholar when first coming to the university, he kneeled.
Water
Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
Water
A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
Water
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.
Water
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."
Water
To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
With tears watering the ground.
Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands.
Water
To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
Water
To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
Water
To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
If thine eyes can water for his death.
Water
To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
Water
Binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
Water
The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean);
They invaded our territorial waters
They were sitting by the water's edge
Water
Facility that provides a source of water;
The town debated the purification of the water supply
First you have to cut off the water
Water
Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
Water
Liquid excretory product;
There was blood in his urine
The child had to make water
Water
A fluid necessary for the life of most animals and plants;
He asked for a drink of water
Water
Supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams;
Water the fields
Water
Provide with water;
We watered the buffalo
Water
Secrete or form water, as tears or saliva;
My mouth watered at the prospect of a good dinner
His eyes watered
Water
Fill with tears;
His eyes were watering
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