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freshwater
/ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/
name 5adj 4noun 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
cold, cool, covered, largest, live, locked, lower, lower
VERB + FRESHWATER
born, drink, fish, freezes, lakes, like, pumping, streams
FRESHWATER + NOUN
china, lake, mussels, paragnaths, river, salt, saltwater, stickleback
PREP.
from, in, in, than, up
ADV.
generally, often, virtually
Definitions
adj
1
Living in fresh water.
The trout is a freshwater fish.
2
Consisting of fresh water.
Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.
3
Unskilled as a seaman.
“Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he said this—“surely I am not to suppose that you have become soft-hearted! […]
4
Neoclassical, in reference to the macroeconomics and economic departments near the Great Lakes.
2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86. Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher.
noun
1
A body of fresh water.
Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]
Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2.
2
Alternative form of fresh water.
Schematic diagram of the viscosity effect during the injection of freshwater.
Above 200m, high-salinity water was being carried southward out of the Arabian Sea. This implies that most of the freshwater was imported into the Arabian Sea in the upper layer.
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Example Bank
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The trout is a freshwater fish.
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Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.
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“Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he
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Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]
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Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2.
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The chances of long-term preservation of fossils in freshwaters are minimal, for freshwaters are readily disturbed and destroyed by drought on the land masses.
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