water system

water system
noun
1. a river and all of its tributaries
• Hypernyms: ↑system, ↑scheme
• Part Meronyms: ↑river
2. a facility that provides a source of water
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the town debated the purification of the water supply

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first you have to cut off the water

• Syn: ↑water supply, ↑water
• Hypernyms: ↑facility, ↑installation
• Part Holonyms: ↑infrastructure, ↑base
• Part Meronyms: ↑reservoir, ↑artificial lake, ↑man-made lake, ↑water main

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noun
1. : a river with its tributaries

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1. a river and all its branches.
2. a system of supplying water, as throughout a metropolitan area.
[1825-35]

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water system,
1. a) reservoirs, wells, pipes, and other equipment, together with the persons responsible for them, by which water is provided to a city; physical plant and personnel of a water supply. b) = water supply. (Cf. ↑water supply)
2. a river with all its tributary streams.

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