英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)ləs/

形容詞

waterless (not comparable)

1. Dry, arid, lacking water.

   The waterless desert can kill in many ways but dehydration is often fastest.

   • 1946 January and February, “The Why and The Wherefore: Condensing Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:

     Also the Russian lines over which these locomotives run pass through long stretches of waterless country, where the only alternative to hauling additional water-tank wagons is to conserve the water supply by condensing.

   • 1978 April 29, Robert Etherington, “Cast As Decandents, Again”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

     Contrasting the luxurious life of the foreigners with the overcrowded, fetid, waterless existence of the Arabs.

2. Not requiring water.

   How does a waterless urinal have a drain trap?

参考

• Westley Waterless (a misnomer from Old English)