TAP WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tap water mean? 

• TAP WATER (noun)
  The noun TAP WATER has 1 sense:

1. water directly from the spigot

  Familiarity information: TAP WATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAP WATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water directly from the spigot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("tap water" is a kind of...):

H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)

 Context examples 

International travelers should be careful about drinking tap water.

(Hepatitis A, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

M. gordonae is commonly found in tap water and soil, is commensal in human mucus membranes, urine and gastric fluid and is rarely pathogenic except in immunocompromised individuals.

(Mycobacterium gordonae, NCI Thesaurus)

M. simiae is found primarily in the southwestern United States, Israel and Cuba, with tap water as its suspected reservoir.

(Mycobacterium simiae, NCI Thesaurus)

The type of drinking water that is planned to be provided to the subjects in a set (e.g., tap water, acidified, reverse osmosis, etc.).

(Drinking Water, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)