Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape.
- adjective Having no flaws or loopholes; impossible to fault, refute, or evade.
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- adjective So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape.
Etymologies
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Examples
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What an absurd and anomalous position, but the result is very serious for it means that as we are all separated by these artificial barriers which we have erected, there is a danger of our working and thinking in watertight compartments.
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It is a mistake to imagine that war aims, strategy, propaganda and industrial organisation exist in watertight compartments.
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This system, of course, is not watertight, which is why, meanwhile, we have decided to start using body scanners on flights to the states.
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This system, of course, is not watertight, which is why meanwhile we have decided to start using body scanners on flights to the states.
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This system, of course, is not watertight, which is why, meanwhile, we have decided to start using body scanners on flights to the States.
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Colonel Shapiro has what might be called a watertight one.
The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971
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It is disconcerting, to say the least of it, particularly when the water sweeps its way aft along the upper deck in solid masses which no so-called watertight ventilator can keep out.
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The Crown became central to the definition of Canadian federalism in 1892 when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled that the Crown in the provinces is co-equal with the federal Crown within the separate constitutional jurisdictions of provincial legislatures and Parliament - the so-called watertight-compartments thesis of Canada's Constitution.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Valpy 2009
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In my late teens, taken by the idea of meeting all my internet penfriends, I formed a 'watertight' plan to spend the summer criss-crossing America by bus meeting my glamourous new acquaintances.
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In my late teens, taken by the idea of meeting all my internet penfriends, I formed a 'watertight' plan to spend the summer criss-crossing America by bus meeting my glamourous new acquaintances.
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