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running water

running water noun: water available from taps.

Noun

running water (uncountable)

  1. Water available from taps.
    • The rural population of the United States in 1950 was 57.5 million; ( of this total 22 percent was served by running water) and used an estimated 3,500 million gallons of water per day.1951, Kenneth Allen MacKichan, Estimated Use of Water in the United States, 1950, page 4
    • A public system or private company refers to any source supplying running water to six or more housing units.2000, Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, 1998 - Volumes 170-199, page A-19
    Synonyms:
    tap water
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see running, water.
    • Productivity in running water is dependent primarily on attached algae, which is part of the periphyton.2004, J. Jacoby, E. Welch, Pollutant Effects in Freshwater
    • The action of running water is such as to wear away the banks against which the current is directed, and therefore one riparian owner has no right to change the flow of the current so as to direct it against the land of the opposite owner.2006, Henry Philip Farnham, The Law of Waters and Water Rights, →ISBN

running water meaning in Tamil and Bengali

running water in Tamil

நீரோட்டம்

running water in Bengali

running water
প্রবাহ probaho

Examples of running water in a sentence

  • The things I previously seen as life's necessities—proper running water to drink and wash with, sanitary restrooms, and local medical help—were nowhere to be found in this God-forsaken little town.2004, Tony Perez, Nine Lives and Still Running, →ISBN, page 1:
  • At the time being middle class in America meant education for the children and modern home conveniences, most basically, hot and cold running water.2010, Jonathan Soffer, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, →ISBN:
  • First, since resettled people had to move into existing communities in designated resettlement areas, policy adjustment to assist host communities with running water and electricity were needed.2012, Kate Lazarus, Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Nga Dao, Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region, →ISBN, page 48:

Synonyms of running water

Questions about running water

What does running water mean?
Running water means water available from taps.
What is running water in Tamil?
Running water in Tamil is நீரோட்டம். See Running water meaning in Tamil.
How do you use running water in a sentence?
The things I previously seen as life's necessities—proper running water to drink and wash with, sanitary restrooms, and local medical help—were nowhere to be found in this God-forsaken little town.
What part of speech is running water?
Running water is a noun.

Words near running water in the dictionary

  1. running up in
  2. running up in it
  3. running up on
  4. running up the score
  5. running W
  6. running water
  7. running wild
  8. running with
  9. running with scissors
  10. running with the hare and hunting with the hounds
  11. running Ws

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Adapted from Wiktionary: running water (page history and authors); running water (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); প্রবাহ (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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