"watertight" meaning in English

See watertight in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈwɔː.tə.taɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwɑː.tɚ.taɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwɔː.tɚ.taɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-watertight.wav Forms: more watertight [comparative], most watertight [superlative]
Etymology: From water + tight. Compare Scots wattirticht (“watertight”), West Frisian wetterticht (“waterproof”), Dutch waterdicht (“waterproof, watertight”), German wasserdicht (“watertight, waterproof”), Danish vandtæt (“watertight”), Swedish vattentät (“watertight, waterproof”). Etymology templates: {{com|en|water|tight}} water + tight, {{cog|sco|wattirticht|t=watertight}} Scots wattirticht (“watertight”), {{cog|fy|wetterticht|t=waterproof}} West Frisian wetterticht (“waterproof”), {{cog|nl|waterdicht|t=waterproof, watertight}} Dutch waterdicht (“waterproof, watertight”), {{cog|de|wasserdicht|t=watertight, waterproof}} German wasserdicht (“watertight, waterproof”), {{cog|da|vandtæt|t=watertight}} Danish vandtæt (“watertight”), {{cog|sv|vattentät|t=watertight, waterproof}} Swedish vattentät (“watertight, waterproof”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} watertight (comparative more watertight, superlative most watertight)
  1. So tightly made that water cannot enter or escape. Translations (so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape): στεγανός (steganós) (Ancient Greek), воданепраніка́льны (vodanjepranikálʹny) (Belarusian), герметы́чны (hjermjetýčny) (Belarusian), херметичен (hermetičen) (Bulgarian), водонепроницаем (vodonepronicaem) (Bulgarian), 水密的 (shuǐmì de) (Chinese Mandarin), 防水的 (fángshuǐ de) (english: waterproof) (Chinese Mandarin), vodotěsný [masculine] (Czech), vandtæt (Danish), waterdicht (Dutch), vedenpitävä (Finnish), vesitiivis (Finnish), étanche (French), estanco (Galician), wasserdicht (German), στεγανός (steganós) (Greek), υδατοστεγής (ydatostegís) (Greek), vízhatlan (Hungarian), uisce-obach (Irish), uiscedhíonach (Irish), a tenuta stagna (Italian), impermeabile (Italian), 水を通さない (mizu o tōsanai) (Japanese), 水密の (suimitsu no) (alt: すいみつの) (Japanese), waasserdicht (Luxembourgish), pihi (Maori), whakapiri (Maori), vanntett (Norwegian Bokmål), vasstett (Norwegian Bokmål), vasstett (Norwegian Nynorsk), wodoszczelny [masculine] (Polish), nieprzemakalny [masculine] (Polish), impermeável (Portuguese), водонепроница́емый (vodonepronicájemyj) (Russian), гермети́чный (germetíčnyj) (Russian), непромока́емый (nepromokájemyj) (Russian), водонепропусан [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), vodonepropusan [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), hermético (Spanish), estanco (Spanish), vattentät (Swedish), водонепроникни́й (vodonepronyknýj) (Ukrainian), гермети́чний (hermetýčnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-watertight-en-adj-H3WXKVJQ Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape': 99 1
  2. (figurative) So devised or planned as to be impossible to defeat, evade or nullify. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Liquids Translations (impossible to defeat, evade or nullify): неопровержим (neoproveržim) (Bulgarian), vedenpitävä (Finnish), aukoton (Finnish), wasserdicht (German), непробива́емый (neprobivájemyj) (Russian), sin fisuras (Spanish), a toda prueba (Spanish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: waterfast, waterproof, water-proof, impervious, impermeable, water-tight Derived forms: 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, lighttight, light-tight, liquidtight, liquid-tight, oiltight, oil-tight, pressuretight, pressure-tight, raintight, rain-tight, sandtight, sand-tight, soiltight, soil-tight, weathertight, weather-tight

Alternative forms

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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape",
      "word": "estanco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape",
      "word": "vattentät"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vodonepronyknýj",
      "sense": "so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape",
      "word": "водонепроникни́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hermetýčnyj",
      "sense": "so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape",
      "word": "гермети́чний"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neoproveržim",
      "sense": "impossible to defeat, evade or nullify",
      "word": "неопровержим"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "impossible to defeat, evade or nullify",
      "word": "vedenpitävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "impossible to defeat, evade or nullify",
      "word": "aukoton"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "impossible to defeat, evade or nullify",
      "word": "wasserdicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neprobivájemyj",
      "sense": "impossible to defeat, evade or nullify",
      "word": "непробива́емый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "impossible to defeat, evade or nullify",
      "word": "sin fisuras"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "impossible to defeat, evade or nullify",
      "word": "a toda prueba"
    }
  ],
  "word": "watertight"
}

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