Meaning of "water skater" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF WATER SKATER

water skater  [ˈwɔːtə ˈskeɪtə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WATER SKATER

Water skater 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 SKATER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gerridae

Gerridae is a family of true bugs in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water bugs, magic bugs, pond skaters, skaters, skimmers, water scooters, water skaters, water skeeters, water skimmers, water skippers, water spiders, or Jesus bugs. One main characteristic that sets gerrids and other true bugs apart from other insects is that the front wing is only half functional. Rather than using it for flight, it acts as a membranous covering and the thickened part is by where claws develop. Consistent with the classification of Gerridae as true bugs, gerrids have a mouthpart evolved for piercing and sucking, gerrids distinguish themselves by having the unique ability to walk on water. Gerridae, or water striders, are anatomically built to transfer their weight to be able to run on top of the water's surface. As a result, one could likely find water striders present in any pond, river, or lake. Scientists have identified over 1,700 species of gerrids, 10% of them being marine.

TRANSLATION OF WATER SKATER

Find out the translation of water skater to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of water skater 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 skater» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 水滑冰
• Translator English - Spanish: patinador agua
• English: water skater
• Translator English - Hindi: पानी स्केटिंग करनेवाला
• Translator English - Arabic: متزلج المياه
• Translator English - Russian: вода фигурист
• Translator English - Portuguese: skater água
• Translator English - Bengali: জল স্কেটার
• Translator English - French: La patineuse de l´eau
• Translator English - Malay: Skater air
• Translator English - German: Wasser Skater
• Translator English - Japanese: 水スケーター
• Translator English - Korean: 물 스케이팅 선수
• Translator English - Javanese: Banyu skater
• Translator English - Vietnamese: vận động viên nước
• Translator English - Tamil: நீர் சறுக்கு
• Translator English - Marathi: वॉटर स्केटर
• Translator English - Turkish: Su kayağı teknisyeni
• Translator English - Italian: skater acqua
• Translator English - Polish: łyżwiarz wody
• Translator English - Ukrainian: вода фігурист
• Translator English - Romanian: patinator de apă
• Translator English - Greek: σκέιτερ νερό
• Translator English - Afrikaans: water skater
• Translator English - Swedish: vatten skater
• Translator English - Norwegian: vann skater

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATER SKATER»

Discover the use of water skater in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to water skater and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

"An Insect View of Its Plain": Insects, Nature and God in ...

The section of Walden devoted to the water-skater offers an extended and unified example of how Thoreau attempts to depict an insect's experience that is matched only by Thoreau's treatment of the battling ants and the beautiful bug gnawing ...

Rosemary Scanlon McTier, 2013

Living Fossils

Compare this living water skater, sitting on the back of my hand (below), to this fossil from Solnhofen (right). I don't consider this an exact match because the front legs on the living form are shorter than the legs of the fossilized water skater.

Carl Werner, 2009

Issues in Life Sciences—Zoology: 2013 Edition

According to news reporting originating in Englewood, Colorado, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The water skater genus Gerris of Vietnam is reviewed, with a key to species provided.” The news reporters obtained a quote from the ...

‎2013

The Best Australian Stories 2004

'Like the water skater, you mean.' 'I don't know who the water skater is.' 'The water skater or long-legged fly. An insect. The water skater thinks it is just hunting for food, whereas in fact its movements trace on the surface of the pond, over and ...

Frank Moorhouse, 2004

Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism: ...

The focus is less on satire and more on nature description. The prose is highly lyrical; the tone affirmative; the mood introspective and meditative; the style is also noticeably scientific. Thoreau's lyric description of the water-skater's dimpling on ...

Dr Bernhard Kuhn, 2013

Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas ...

map their own space in the image of a water skater, head to east, whose diagonal legs are the rivers that flow, as the Rio Grande and Colorado in fact do, to the oceans of the Atlantic and Pacific, firmly identified now at these latitudes with east ...

Gordon Brotherston, 1992

The Pink House: Or, I Almost Had a Bite

A water-skater in the night. Striding across the slick water off the tip of Tom's broken rod. Like you've seen them skating at the edge of a still woodland pond. It slows. And as it slows the radiant course oflights giving chase also slow. Then sink ...

David Dinklage, 2007

The Queen Catalogues

Wasp, Vespa vulgans. Water Beetle, Gyrinus natator Do. do. larva. Water Beetle. Hygrotus eleganA Do. do. larva Water Boatman, Notonect* glauca. Water Boatman, Notonects glauca, pupa. Water Scorpion. Nepa cinerea. Water Skater ...

‎1993

Calling Home

Shannon held her breath, sank down until the flat plane of the water's surface was just below her eyes and she thought that this must be a water skater's view of the world. Jake swam to her, dove down, and she could feel water swirl around ...

Janna McMahan, 2008

River Ecosystem Ecology: A Global Perspective

... Yangtze River see Changjiang (Yangtze) River Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) River (Asia) topography, deforestation effects, particulate nutrients 232 303f, 316f see also Catchment(s) Water skater see Isopoda (and isopods) Water towers, ...

Gene E. Likens, 2010