Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Water beneath the earth's surface, often between saturated soil and rock, that supplies wells and springs.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks
Examples
“ They gained an uncharacteristic hummock of land, a half mile across, from which the ground water had drained, more or less.”
“What water does not go up (by evapo-transpiration) must either be discharged to ground water or run off the land.”
“Griffith et al., “Cancer mortality in U.S. counties with hazardous waste sites and ground water pollution,” Archives of Environmental Health, vol. 44, no.”
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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
dactylis glomerata, daily allowance, daily contact zone, daily cycle of tides, daily intake level, daily mortality rate, daily office and ..., daily peak, daily range in va..., daily runoff regu..., daily SO2 levels, dairy cattle and 5213 more...
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ENVI - drinking water
unconfined aquifer, confined aquifer, artesian aquifer, water catchment, groundwater abstr..., spring water coll..., surface water col..., impounding reservoir, intake water, potable water, treatment plant, drinking water tr... and 79 more...
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