watertight

English

Etymology

From water +‎ tight.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔː.tə.taɪt/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑː.tɚ.taɪt/, /ˈwɔː.tɚ.taɪt/

Adjective

watertight (comparative more watertight, superlative most watertight)

1. So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape.
2. (figuratively) So devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade or nullify.

   a watertight contract; a watertight regulation

   • 2021 March 31, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Poland: What shape are Gareth Southgate's side in?”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     What if England's defence is finally examined to the full by class opposition at the Euros? Can this rearguard be trusted to remain watertight and protect what a high-quality attack can give them?

Synonyms

• waterproof, water-proof, impervious, impermeable

Derived terms

• watertight alibi
• watertightness

Related terms

• airtight, air-tight
• coldtight, cold-tight
• drafttight, draft-tight
• draughttight, draught-tight
• driptight, drip-tight
• dusttight, dust-tight
• gastight, gas-tight
• heattight, heat-tight
• jointtight, joint-tight
• leaktight, leak-tight
• leaktight, leak-tight
• lighttight, light-tight
• liquidtight, liquid-tight
• oiltight, oil-tight
• pressuretight, pressure-tight
• raintight, rain-tight
• sandtight, sand-tight
• soiltight, soil-tight
• weathertight, weather-tight

 

Translations

tightly made

• Bulgarian: херметичен (hermetičen), водонепроницаем (vodonepronicaem)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水密的 (zh) (shuǐmì de), (waterproof) 防水的 (zh) (fángshuǐ de)

• Czech: vodotěsný (cs) m
• Danish: vandtæt (da)
• Dutch: waterdicht (nl)
• Finnish: vedenpitävä, vesitiivis (fi)
• French: étanche (fr)
• Galician: estanco
• German: wasserdicht (de)
• Greek: στεγανός (el) (steganós)

  Ancient: στεγανός (steganós)

• Hungarian: vízhatlan (hu)
• Irish: uisce-obach, uiscedhíonach
• Italian: a tenuta stagna, impermeabile (it)
• Japanese: 水を通さない (mizu o tōsanai), 水密の (すいみつの, suimitsu no)

• Luxembourgish: waasserdicht
• Maori: pihi, whakapiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vanntett (no), vasstett

  Nynorsk: vasstett

• Polish: wodoszczelny (pl) m, nieprzemakalny (pl) m
• Portuguese: impermeável (pt)
• Russian: водонепроница́емый (ru) (vodonepronicájemyj), гермети́чный (ru) (germetíčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: водонепропусан m

  Roman: vodonepropusan m

• Spanish: hermético (es), estanco (es)
• Swedish: vattentät (sv)

impossible to defeat, evade or nullify

• Bulgarian: неопровержим (bg) (neoproveržim)
• Finnish: vedenpitävä, aukoton (fi)

• Spanish: sin fisuras, a toda prueba

See also

• Ship floodability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia