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Hydro   Listen
noun
Hydro  n.  
1.
A hydro-aeroplane. (obsolescent)
2.
Hydroelectric power; also used attributively.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Hydro" Quotes from Famous Books



... this humdrum, idiotic manner, Horace took a third-class return to Llandudno. Sidney and Ella were staying at the hydro with the strange Welsh name, and he found Sidney lolling on the sunshiny beach in front of the hydro discoursing on the banjo to himself. When asked where his wife was, Sidney replied that she was lying down, and was obliged to rest as ...
— The Grim Smile of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... Nemorensis was undertaken in 1885, by Sir John Savile Lumley, now Lord Savile of Rufford, the English ambassador at Rome, with the kind consent of the Italian government. It seems that this Artemisium Nemorense was not only a place of worship and devotion, but also a hydro-therapeutic establishment. The waters employed for the cure were those which spring from the lava rocks at Nemi, and which, until a few years ago, fell in graceful cascades into the lake, at a place called "Le Mole." They now supply the city of Albano, which has long suffered from water-famine. ...
— Pagan and Christian Rome • Rodolfo Lanciani
... source: This entry indicates the percentage share of annual electricity production of each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... in the resin, is the natural production of the plant from which the resin is derived. It may also be produced artificially. Abel found that when cumole (C{18}H{12}) was treated with nitric acid, so dilute that no red vapors were evolved for several days, this hydro-carbon was converted into benzoic acid. Guckelberger has, by the oxidation of casein with peroxide of manganese and sulphuric acid, obtained as one of the products benzoic acid. Albumen, fibrin, and gelatin yielded similar results when treated as above. Woehler has detected benzoic ...
— The Art of Perfumery - And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants • G. W. Septimus Piesse


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