water something down

Examples of watering

watering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Regular watering maintained soil water content above 27% during storage under moist conditions.
The discrete event-based nature of granular synthesis suggested the rainfall metaphor used in the device, which then indicated a watering can as an appropriate controller.
Seedling emergence was monitored weekly during periods of watering.
It is likely that the hand-operated shaduf was the only mechanical assistance available, capable of watering only small plots of land.
Others gave small services in return, such as watering plants or looking after a friend's house.
The converse, whereby the lid everts, exposing the conjunctiva, is similarly troublesome and causes watering.
Artificial watering is the single most defining technical element of irrigation farming.
Then he washed his hands in the watering-pot, took my hand in both his, and gave his blessing to me and my dwelling.
The soil water content was kept at field capacity by daily waterings as determined by tensiometer readings.
There were no significant differences in the rate of pupation between watering stalks daily and doing so every other day.
Droplets are produced at a rate that depends on the tilt angle of the watering can and have an appropriate initial velocity.
Although both methods lead to good results, they need care in watering.
The watering schedules for the two stress periods were as follows.
There was human contact in all habitats, especially in sites used for laundry, fishing, watering and drinking purposes (table 3).
However, labour is required for watering seedlings because nurseries are established in the dry season before the unimodal (seasonal) rains begin.
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