freshwater
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Is freshwater a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (nautical) Unskilled as a seaman.Examples: "“Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he said this—“surely I am not to suppose that you have become soft-hearted! […]"not-comparable
2. (economics) neoclassical, in reference to U.S. macroeconomics and economics departments near the Great Lakes.Examples: "2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86. Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher."Synonyms: sweetwaternot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (countable) A body of fresh waterExamples: "Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]"; "Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2."; "The chances of long-term preservation of fossils in freshwaters are minimal, for freshwaters are readily disturbed and destroyed by drought on the land masses."countable
Definition source: Wiktionary