waterhead
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From water + head.
Compound parts: water
head
Inflected forms:
form: waterheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waterheads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: waterheading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waterheaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waterheaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A spring or headwater.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is bounded to the southward by a line of springs or waterheads, which is also the northern boundary of the tract called the Terrai , one equally distinguished with the former from the souther plain country, but occasionally annexed to it and occasionally to the hills.
Pukaki means a river source, the waterhead; so the name is literally descriptive.
At the true waterhead, where the road from Hawkshead joins the road round the lake, used to stand the Old Waterhead Inn.
gloss: An area of high elevation, viewed as the catchment basin for a region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In my Report on the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire, the first volume of which, treating the surface, minerals, rivers, &c. is now in the press, An alphabetical List of the most remarkable Mountains, Hills and Eminences has been printed, referring to a small Map of 41 principal Ridges, or ranges of high ground, called waterheads, which divide the drainages to 32 rivers and rivulets , in and near Derbyshire.
Forty major waterhead forestry conservation zones with a combined area of 800,000 ha have been designated in the Guangxi Autonomous Region, and related regulations on the management of these forests have been proclaimed, according to the regional authorities.
The Kontum Highland area, near Kontum and Plei Ku, is the waterhead of the Sesan, while the Darlac Plain, near Ban Me Thuot, is the Srepok waterhead.
gloss: A reservoir or natural source of water that is put to use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As a result of narrowing the stream channel, a waterhead is formed in front of a structure and the depth of water reaches the magnitude H, greater than the depth of an unelevated water a.
There is plenty of water in the valley, but placement along an irrigation ditch can affect the amount of water a patch will receive. Most large farms have their own waterheads where water is taken out of the stream .
What times would the waterhead break?
"What is the use of a deep well?" I asked. "To create a waterhead on the flat ground," my travelling companion said. It turned out that this hydraulic power station on the desert would utilize the waterhead to divert water from the Keriya River for generation of electricity.
Looking back, Yewdale Crag stands finely over the waterhead; Brantwood is opposite.
gloss: A portion of a device or system where water is stored before it is used, such as a header tank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The water supplied to the boiler first pases into a waterhead situate within the smoke box, where it becomes heated preparatory to entering the boiler.
This device is nothing more than a piece of copper pipe, which is employed on account of its sensitiveness to change of temperature. The thermostat tube is connected solid into what is termed the "waterhead."
To the pipe K is secured a rose M, which has discharge orifices and projects into the lower chamber or waterhead compartment.
gloss: The amount of water or water pressure provided by a waterhead (reservoir or portion of a device that stores water).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Where water is conveyed through pipes and there is sufficient waterhead for pipe pressure, spraying irrigation may be resorted to.
Briefly, a hydraulic air compressor may be described as an inverted siphon, consisting of an intake head where water and air are mingled, followed by a gravity-fall tube in which air is intimately mixed with the water and is compressed as the water pressure increases during the fall down the tube, then a separating, or stilling, chamber in which air bubbles rise to the surface of the water and collect in the upper portion of the chamber at a pressure equal to the waterhead maintained by the height of water in the discharge leg of the circuit .
Tests 1 through 7 proceeded well; 35 psi ( 80 ft of waterhead ) was reached with no signs of failure in the bulkhead or its anchorage.
In leaching process, determination of waterhead is important for intensifying leaching, avoiding pollution, etc. In this paper, a mathematical model for calculating waterhead was developed based on principle of hydrology and characteristics of ionic rare earth leaching.
Frequently, series of the waterhead observed in control points over a long time show cyclic behaviour ranging from short-term (i.e. hours, days) to long-term variations (i.e. semester, annual or decadal cycles).
The relative waterhead difference between upstream and downstream is 71.47m, smaller than the designed waterhead of the working gate of the bottom hole 87.3m.
gloss: A showerhead.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I even shower with my pen, in case any ideas drip out of the waterhead.
Kapitan Leeuwen's bathroom was bigger than my stateroom. A huge black-marble shower, with waterheads at three levels.
Glassed-in shower with a rainfall waterhead.
Minutes later she slid the shower door open and stepped inside with him, and they stood wrapped together under the warm waterhead until it seemed to him that air and flesh and water were continuous and he had stepped out of his body altogether.
gloss: The place where water enters or exits a device or system
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Inlet and outlet waterheads at each end of the condenser are arranged such that cooling water flow through the condenser is single flow .
Armitage, rear 2016 The home is adorned with replica plaster rosettes and decorative lead waterheads fed by the house's gutters.
The direct connection between the infinite seawater and the corrosive seawater at the waterhead of the subsea tunnel greatly impedes the waterproofing and drainage of the tunnel.
gloss: A water main
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This system consists of one or more lengths of pipe, extending from the main, or waterhead.
A typical arrangement of waterhead and branch pipe is shown in the sketch .
gloss: A burst of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hot flashes were a mere summer shower compared to the waterhead she created more days a month than not.
gloss: Hydrocephalus
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The head enlarges and "waterhead" ( hydrocephalus ) results.
Marcy's child born with waterhead.
A waterhead baby rarely lives very long because that is a very serious malformation of the body, strictly from the Devil, and certainly not given by God.
Hydrocephalus (waterhead or water on the brain): Accumulation of fluid within compartments of the brain; results in crushing of brain
gloss: The enlarged head of a person or animal with hydrocephalus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ADELE : A waterhead. You know, one of them high heads.
The doctor continued, “For three hours we've been trying to work on her before we go into her brain. But the mass is gone, and her head has begun to shrink down from a waterhead to normal.
Elbert Colley was his son and he had a waterhead.
gloss: A hydrocephalic person or animal
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He has also shown how an internal pressure, like that of growing beans or of a column of water will expand or burst it – in life we observe the same expansion occurring in waterheads and on account of other internal morbid growths, above all in the younger years of life.
"Probabilities are zero to 25 per cent that a dead calf will be a waterhead, but it's something that every cattle breeder should be aware of," Schalles says.
That kid of yours, child protective services is going to take it away because you are ultimately flighty and irresponsible. And, besides, it'll probably be a waterhead.
gloss: A stupid and/or ugly person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 8:33 a.m. Jesus, this waterhead Gurney again! You'd think the poor bugger would have the sense to not talk any more ... but no, Gurney is still blundering along, still hammering blindly at the receding edges of Dean's 'credibility' in his now-obvious role as what Frank Reynolds and Sam Donaldson on ABC-TV both described as 'the waterboy for the White House'.
It's heading for Provo, Utah, where it will meet a woman who works for the city sanitation department, in the typing pool; it will woo her, win her, marry her and have three children by her, one of which will be a waterhead like you.
The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein.
To all the waterheads that did me wrong.
gloss: To behave in an imbecilic manner.
pos: verb
examples: This was no time to waterhead around.
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