mineral water

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mineral water

Naturally occurring or prepared water that contains dissolved mineral salts, elements, or gases.

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mineral water

(Medicine) water containing dissolved mineral salts or gases, usually having medicinal properties

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min′eral wa`ter

water containing dissolved mineral salts or gases, esp. such water considered healthful to drink.

[1555–65]

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Noun

mineral water - water naturally or artificially impregnated with mineral salts or gasses; often effervescent; often used therapeutically

drinking water - water suitable for drinking

seltzer - naturally effervescent mineral water

Vichy water - sparkling mineral water from springs at Vichy, France or water similar to it

lithia water - mineral water containing lithium salts

Translations

مَشْروب فَوّارمِيَاهٌ مَعْدَنِيَةٌمياه مَعْدَنِيَّه

minerálkaminerální vodanealkoholický nápoj

mineralvandkildevand

Mineralwasser

μεταλλικό νερό

agua mineral

kivennäisvesi

eau minérale boisson gazeuse

mineralna voda

ásványvízszénsavas üdítõital

ölkelduvatn, steinefnaríkt vatnsódavatn, vatn meî gosi í

acqua minerale gazzosa

ミネラルウォーター

광천수

mineraalwater

mineralvann brus kildevann

woda mineralna

água mineral

минеральная вода

minerálka

mineralna voda

mineralvatten

น้ำแร่

maden suyu gazoz

nước khoáng

矿泉水苏打水

mineral water

n → acqua minerale

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mineral

(ˈminərəl) noun

a substance (metals, gems, coal, salt etc) found naturally in the earth and mined. What minerals are mined in that country?; (also adjective) mineral ores.

mineral water

1. a type of water containing small quantities of health-giving minerals.

2. a fizzy, non-alcoholic drink such as lemonade.

mineral water

→ مِيَاهٌ مَعْدَنِيَةٌ minerální voda mineralvand Mineralwasser μεταλλικό νερό agua mineral kivennäisvesi eau minérale mineralna voda acqua minerale ミネラルウォーター 광천수 mineraalwater mineralvann woda mineralna água mineral минеральная вода mineralvatten น้ำแร่ maden suyu nước khoáng 矿泉水

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There were cakes, buns, sandwiches, tea and coffee, all free; but if you wanted mineral water you had to pay for it.

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Had desired to sell for the past five years, ever since he had engaged in the enterprise of bottling mineral water at the springs lower down the valley.

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He found several sealed bottles of sterilized milk, much mineral water, two tins of biscuits and a crock of very stale cakes, cigarettes in great quantity but very dry, some rather dry oranges, nuts, some tins of canned meat and fruit, and plates and knives and forks and glasses sufficient for several score of people.

There were six bottles of milk unopened and one opened, sixty bottles of mineral water and a large stock of syrups, about two thousand cigarettes and upwards of a hundred cigars, nine oranges, two unopened tins of corned beef and one opened, and five large tins California peaches.

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They drank--that is, Nathaniel Letton took mineral water served by the smoothly operating machine of a lackey who inhabited the place, while Dowsett took Scotch and soda and Daylight a cocktail.

"What we want," Letton took up the strain, pausing significantly to sip his mineral water, "what we want is to take large blocks of Ward Valley off the hands of the public.

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The mineral waters of Arva Wai* ooze forth from the crevices of a rock, and gliding down its mossy side, fall at last, in many clustering drops, into a natural basin of stone fringed round with grass and dewy-looking little violet-coloured flowers, as fresh and beautiful as the perpetual moisture they enjoy can make them.

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He found the liver considerably enlarged, and the digestive powers weakened, while the course of mineral waters had been quite without effect.

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[1] It seems probable that mineral waters rising deep from the bowels of the earth, would always be more deranged by subterranean disturbances than those nearer the surface.

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Canned things in shops; wines, spirits, mineral waters; and the water mains and drains are empty.

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I assure you, my dear, that on several occasions after I was first married, I had to pretend to be very ill, and was obliged to drink the most unpleasant mineral waters, merely to get Berwick out of town.

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Brecon Mineral Water bottles natural mineral water from beneath the Brecon Beacons National Park.