Irrigation
[ˌɪrɪˈɡeʃn]
Definition
(noun.) (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution.
(noun.) supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc.
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Definition
(n.) The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Watering.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See IRRIGATE]
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Examples
- They had seen the Roosevelt influence adding to the resources of life--irrigation, and waterways, conservation, the Panama Canal, the country life movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Agriculture made possible by irrigation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He made the canals and organized the irrigation (_e. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By destroying forests and by irrigation man has already affected the climate of great regions of the world's surface. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We could look across the plain and see farmhouses and the rich green farms with their irrigation ditches and the mountains to the north. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They practised farming in a scientific way, and had good systems of irrigation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Irrigation, or the artificial watering of land, is of the greatest importance in those parts of the world where the land is naturally too dry for farming. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The everyday conception of water is more available for ordinary uses of drinking, washing, irrigation, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In an inscription recording his irrigation work in Sumeria and Akkadia, he begins: When Anu and Bel entrusted me with the rule of Sumer and Akkad----. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Rice for its growth needs periodical flooding, and irrigation often supplies the necessary water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- By irrigation, on the other hand, man restores the desert to life and mitigates climate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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