cold water
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcoldandwater
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cold
adjective
uk/kəʊld/us/koʊld/
at a low temperature, especially when compared to the temperature of the human body, and not hot, ...
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water
noun
uk/ˈwɔː.tər/us/ˈwɑː.t̬ɚ/
a clear liquid, without colour or taste, that falls from the sky as rain and is necessary for animal and ...
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(Definition ofcoldandwaterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Being intensified with time, the convection partly destroys the cool skin when a blob ofcoldwaterbegins to move downward (figure 1, curve b).
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Another potential source of aerosol was a car wash, in whichcoldwaterwas used and recycled car wash water samples failed to yield legionella.
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Apart from usingcoldwater, some colours, such as black, can only be obtained by dyeing in boiling water.
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The marker was a fine spray ofcoldwaterejected from a syringe on the head of the sleeping subject.
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On the other hand, residents are generally content with theircoldwatersupply and quality of delivery.
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Another avoidance measure is to consume only water from thecoldwatersupply and not to consume water from the district hot water system.
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Methods of defrosting food (room temperature, refrigerator, hot orcoldwaterand microwave) were similar in case and control kitchens.
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This shattering is par ticularly intense when hot jade is thrown intocoldwater.
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The decrements in heart rate are similar to, or still larger than, those decrements previously measured during conventional facial immersion incoldwaterwith breatholding.
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At depth, the whale cools the oil by drawingcoldwaterinto the nasal passage, which lies just below the spermaceti organ.
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Access tocoldwater, while more plentiful, was also heterogeneously distributed.
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The mixture was put intocoldwaterand brown crystals precipitated.
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With thecoldwaterimmersion process, it is recommended that cuttings should not be prepared from canes affected with leaf scald or gumming diseases.
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Preliminary results for hot andcoldwaterare presented in table 3 based on both the initial discrete bids and the open-ended follow-up questions.
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The central issue is how we consciously perceive something that undergoes change while remaining in place such ascoldwaterbecoming hot.
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While generally satisfied withcoldwaterquality, residents generally have lower opinions of various characteristics of water.
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This can happen when warm air moves overcoldwateror ice.
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