tap water

See also: tapwater

English

Alternative forms

• tapwater

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Noun

tap water (uncountable)

2. Water that comes from a tap.

   Hypernym: water

   Coordinate terms: bottled water, distilled water, mineral water

   Near-synonym: drinking water

   We all want tap water always to be potable water, but ensuring this equivalence takes work and commitment.

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     Deionized water was also used to avoid the influence of naturally presented microflora in tap water on the experiment.

3. The state of having water available from taps.

   Synonym: running water

   Although we lived in the city, we didn't have tap water.

Translations

water from a tap

• Afrikaans: kraanwater
• Arabic: مَاء الحَنَفِيَّة m (māʔ al-ḥanafiyya)
• Asturian: agua'l cañu
• Basque: iturriko ura
• Bulgarian: чешмя́на вода́ f (češmjána vodá)
• Catalan: aigua de l'aixeta n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自來水 / 自来水 (zh) (zìláishuǐ)

• Czech: voda z vodovodu f, kohoutková voda
• Danish: postevand (da) n
• Dutch: kraantjeswater (nl) n, leidingwater (nl) n
• Esperanto: entuba akvo
• Estonian: kraanivesi
• Finnish: vesijohtovesi (fi), hanavesi (fi), kraanavesi (fi)
• French: eau du robinet (fr) f
• Galician: auga da billa f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Leitungswasser (de) n, Hahnenwasser n (Switzerland)

  Alemannic German: Hanewasser n

• Greek: νερό της βρύσης n (neró tis vrýsis)
• Hawaiian: wai paipu
• Hungarian: sima víz, csapvíz (hu)
• Icelandic: kranavatn (is) n
• Indonesian: air keran (id)
• Italian: acqua del rubinetto f
• Japanese: 水道水 (ja) (suidōsui), 生水 (ja) (namamizu)
• Korean: 수돗물 (ko) (sudonmul)
• Lithuanian: vanduo iš čiaupo n
• Macedonian: вода од чешма f (voda od češma)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kranówka (pl) f, woda kranowa f
• Portuguese: água encanada f, água da torneira f, água canalizada f
• Romanian: apă de la robinet f
• Russian: водопрово́дная вода́ f (vodoprovódnaja vodá)
• Serbo-Croatian: voda iz slavine f
• Spanish: agua del grifo f, agua de caño f
• Swedish: kranvatten (sv), dricksvatten (sv)
• Tagalog: tubig gripo
• Thai: น้ำก๊อก, น้ำประปา (th) (náam-bprà-bpaa)
• Turkish: musluk suyu
• Vietnamese: nước máy (vi)
• Welsh: dŵr tap (cy)

state of having tap water available

• Finnish: vesijohtovesi (fi), juokseva vesi
• German: Wasser aus der Leitung n, fließendes Wasser n
• Polish: kranówka (pl) f, woda kranowa f

See also

• indoor plumbing

Anagrams

• water tap