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Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
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Meaning of "water diviner" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WATER DIVINER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WATER DIVINER

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Water diviner is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WATER DIVINER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

water diviner

Dowsing

Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation, without the use of scientific apparatus. Dowsing is also known as divining, doodlebugging or water finding, water witching or water dowsing. There is no scientific evidence that dowsing is effective. A Y- or L-shaped twig or rod, called a dowsing rod, divining rod, a "vining rod" or witching rod is sometimes used during dowsing, although some dowsers use other equipment or no equipment at all. Dowsing appears to have arisen in the context of Renaissance magic in Germany, and it remains popular among believers in Forteana or radiesthesia.

Definition of water diviner in the English dictionary

The definition of water diviner in the dictionary is a person able to locate the presence of water, esp underground, with a divining rod US name: waterfinder.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WATER DIVINER

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WATER DIVINER

Berliner
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Synonyms and antonyms of water diviner in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «water diviner» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WATER DIVINER

Find out the translation of water diviner to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of water diviner from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «water diviner» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

水占卜师
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zahorí
570 millions of speakers

English

water diviner
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पानी ज्योतिषी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عراف المياه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вода прорицатель
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adivinho água
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জল ডিভিনর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sourcier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Air diviner
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gänger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

水占い師
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

물 점쟁이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Banyu diviner
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bói nước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீர் திவலர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाणी वाटणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Su divini
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rabdomante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wróżbita wody
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вода віщун
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ghicitor de apă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μάντης νερό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

waterwyser
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vatten diviner
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vann spåmann
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about water diviner

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Bunker Roy
Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATER DIVINER»

Discover the use of water diviner in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to water diviner and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Simply Fly
Someone recommended a water-diviner. On the particular evening the water- diviner was to come to the farm, it had been pouring. The stream had risen and could not be easily forded. The small bridge of stone slabs that we had laid across it ...
G. R. Gopinath, 2012
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Haven in Africa
Major Pogson, formerly Water Diviner to the Bombay Government, wrote to the Director of Recruitment in the Colonial Office, informing him of his services as a Water Diviner. Having heard that mass Jewish settlement was about to be ...
Frank Shapiro, 2002
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A Teaching Resource Kit for Mountain Countries: A Creative ...
Since it is not always easy to describe this taste, the teacher asks the village water-diviner to help.A water-diviner can often locate the presence of an aquifer,if it is not far below the surface, by studying the shape of the relief and the height of  ...
‎2010
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Groundwater in the Environment: An Introduction
So what about the underground streams so beloved of the water-diviner? The prosaic truth is that true underground streams are very rare features, being almost wholly restricted to terrains composed of three types of rock: n Rocks composed ...
Paul L. Younger, 2009
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Theory of Earth Science
The arguments of water diviners are an example of this and repeatedly entrap officials and geologically uninformed laymen. From certain movements of his instrument, the water diviner 'infers' the existence of 'water veins' in the ground, which ...
Wolf von Engelhardt, Jörg Zimmermann, 1988
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Water Witching U.S.A.
He was surprised when he saw that the school had employed a water diviner to solve its difficulties in obtaining sufficient water. When the diviner's designated site failed to yield water, the geologist went before the school board and offered his ...
Evon Z. Vogt, Ray Hyman, 2000
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Faithful to the Future: Listening to Yves Congar
[water-diviner]. at. work. Congar, who loved the Church, suffered from feeling that on the one hand there was 'a system constantly justified and glorified [...] and on the other hand, human beings, their questions, their expectations – with the two ...
Brother Emile of Taizé, 2013
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Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North ...
The figure of the water diviner that emerged from the AJCGH debate also invited readers' attention and contemplation. While a minority of correspondents held that divining was merely a trade that could be practiced by anyone (even blacks ...
David M. Gordon, Shepard Krech, 2012
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Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook: Annotated ...
8.3 A WATER DIVINER AT ROME, A.D. 507/511 Vitruvius' comments are intended for the most part for application in rural landscapes, where water supplies were required for private, domestic use. There were, however, also professional ...
John W. Humphrey, John P. Oleson, Andrew N. Sherwood, 2003
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Poltergeist: A Classic Study in Destructive Hauntings
This led him to the theory that the “field” of water can “tape record” strong emotions, and that people who can dowse are probably able to “pick up” these recordings. In short, a water-diviner would be far more likely to see a ghost than most ...
Colin Wilson, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WATER DIVINER»

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Home viewing: 'Home,' 'The Water Diviner,' 'Wrecking Crew'
Russell Crowe directs and stars in “The Water Diviner” as an Australian farmer in search of his sons after the Battle of Gallipoli in World War II. Rated R for war ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
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Movie Review: 'Water Diviner' Doesn't Live Up to Its Own Ambition
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Russell Crowe in a scene from "The Water Diviner." (Mark Rogers/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP). «Valley News, May 15»
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Crowe out of his depth in The Water Diviner
At the start of the horribly titled The Water Diviner, Russell Crowe's Joshua Connor is in the Australian desert looking for a place to dig for water. He "divines" a ... «Colorado Springs Independent, Apr 15»
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Russell Crowe's Acting Can't Save Russell Crowe's Directing in The …
It's clear that Russell Crowe has poured his heart and soul into the historical romance The Water Diviner, his first feature as a director. If only the film were better. «Vulture, Apr 15»
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The Water Diviner
Rarely does a movie pull you in so quickly and so deeply as The Water Diviner. This is one from the heart for Russell Crowe, making an impressive ... «RollingStone.com, Apr 15»
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'The Water Diviner' Review: Russell Crowe Finds New Direction In …
With about 40 films under his belt as an actor, an Oscar and several nominations, Russell Crowe now adds film director to his resume with The Water Diviner, ... «Deadline, Apr 15»
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Russell Crowe's ''Deep Connection'' to The Water Diviner: Filming …
Russell Crowe couldn't help but think of his two sons while shooting The Water Diviner. Not only does the film (in theaters on April 24) mark the Oscar winner's ... «E! Online, Apr 15»
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Can water divining be taught?
In his new film, The Water Diviner, Russell Crowe plays a tough Australian bush farmer possessed of mystical powers, which he uses to divine that everything ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
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Russell Crowe attends Washington premiere of The Water Diviner
The Les Misérables star was seen sporting a rather portly tummy as he attended the Washington premiere of his new movie The Water Diviner on Tuesday. «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
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Russell Crowe visits FOX 5 to talk about "The Water Diviner"
Hollywood star Russell Crowe joined FOX 5's Kevin McCarthy and the Good Day @ 10a crew to talk about his career and his new film "The Water Diviner. «MyFox Washington DC, Apr 15»

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