tap water

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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.

   • 2024 October 10, Tiana Milović et al., “Enhancing Compressive Strength of Cement by Indigenous Individual and Co-Culture Bacillus Bacteria”, in Materials‎^[1], volume 17, number 20, →DOI, archived from the original on 24 February 2025:

     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.

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