Pronunciations (4)
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/ˈwɔtəɹstəf/
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/ˈwɔtəɹ stəf/
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[ˈwoːtʰəstəf]
Pronunciation notes
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[ˈwoːtʰə stəf]
Pronunciation notes
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Noun
Things containing, associated with, or involving water.
Usage- Uncountable
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Any application to the atmosphere of thermodynamics which assumes that waterstuff below 0° C. is ice must necessarily lead the investigator into error.
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… title and another mag with a tasty bob-haired girl doing the waterstuff all over some poor boy who no doubt deserves it. Will let you know if anything interesting, er, goes down.
In the same way as there are not two kinds of stuff, water-stuff and bubble-stuff, but only waterstuff, the absence of which constitutes a bubble, pleasure can be seen as the absence of pain [...]
It was hot, and all the waterstuff came out of Hof's eye, and then he was blind.
Noun
Hydrogen.
Usage- nonstandard
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- Uncountable
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This is approximately the heat of exploding what the Germans call bang-gas (mixture of sourstuff and waterstuff), the result being liquid.
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One day Gröninger, a brilliant young Homoeoid physicist then just at the end of his first year as a graduate student, became convinced that the frequencies of lines in the spectrum of waterstuff are differences between the frequencies …
Formerly we knew of ninety-two firststuffs, from waterstuff, the lightest and barest, to ymirstuff, the heaviest.