Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An underground bed or layer of earth, gravel, or porous stone that yields water.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In geology, a water-bearing bed or stratum, necessarily of some open-textured rock.
Wiktionary
- n. An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc.. The water contained in an aquifer may be of great age, and in such cases is sometimes called fossil water.
WordNet 3.0
- n. underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc
Etymologies
- From Latin aqui-, from aqua + -fer, from Latin ferō. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The word aquifer comes from the two Latin words, aqua, or water, and ferre, to bear or carry.”
“The aquifer is draining faster than it is filling.”
“Gaza's water source comes from an aquifer from the North formed by rain water.”
“Their idea was a play on the word aquifer: “AQuAfer.””
“: We live on the desert, but our underground aquifer is doing just fine, so we don’t have a water shortage.”
“We live on the desert, but our underground aquifer is doing just fine, so we don’t have a water shortage.”
“When there is no impermeable layer between the aquifer and the surface it is called an open aquifer, which is the most common type of aquifer tapped by hand-dug wells.”
“The pipeline route would have risked spills into sensitive habitats along the route, as well as the critical Ogallala aquifer, which is already facing over-use.”
“The aquifer should be the city's lifeline in times of drought, but it's almost empty because of over-extraction since the 1950s.”
“WHEN REQUIRED.? it already does, it's called the aquifer”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aquifer’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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ENVI - water protection
population equiva..., absorptive proper..., abstraction rate, abundance, acaricide, accidental pollution, admixture, adsorption, agglomeration, algicide, alkalinity, angiosperms and 398 more...
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Life is rife .................
-ife- & -iferous : common and not-so-common words about life
fructiferous, ifere, glomuliferous, graniferous, guttiferales, lifen, manifest, nimbiferous, oviferous, roriferous, petaliferous, rangifer and 105 more...
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Written on Water
An eclectic list of words pertaining to and describing water.
"...I am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the...water, rain, cistern, thirst, dead-water, eddy-water, surge, flood, ebb, fluid, flow, liquor amnii and 202 more...
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Good ol' qu-
quag, quagga, quaff, querulous, quorum, sesquipedalian, quibble, quip, aquiline, quote, quotationist, quoter and 29 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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GRE
Taisha GRE Bible
archaic, archetype, archipelago, architect, archive, arctic, ardor, arduous, argot, arid, armory, arrest and 289 more...
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Carry Me Home
Another kind of bear list: words bearing the -fer suffix ("that which carries"), the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
Also see (if you like) Carry Me Home Again.aquifer, conifer, umbellifer, transfer, thurifer, defer, telfer, suffer, rotifer, refer, foraminifer, poriferous and 157 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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applebone's Words
effervescent, tripartite, aplomb, rarefied, aerie, sifted, dorsiflexion, whelk, ilk, anathema, philology, uvula and 21 more...
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some words I like
lorem ipsum, amble, conjunctiva, ribaldry, pedestrian, floret, frith, philately, mercy, transpierced, wrist, codicil and 40 more...
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practice test 1
compound word, semantic, root, radical, coinage, denote, connote, lionization, caprice, equivocal, subcutaneous, metabolism and 68 more...
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A Civil Action (1998)
Words from a 1998 'A Civil Action' film.
plaintiff, preside, eligible, bachelor, eligible bachelor, tannery, self-preservation, thump, punitive, disservice, humiliate, moot and 27 more...
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