different between waterer vs watered

English

Etymology

water +? -er

Noun

waterer (plural waterers)

1. One who waters plants.
   • 2007, Eleanor Crawforth, Stephen Procter, Michael Schmidt, New Poetries IV (page 86)

     She has dabbled in jobs as various as plant-waterer for a garden centre, trackwork rider for a racehorse trainer and librarian's assistant […]

2. One who waters down, or dilutes, something.
   • 1980, Official Journal of the European Communities

     Any Community funds intended for wine producers should benefit the producers and not the manufacturers of false labels, the forgers of transit papers, the mixers or waterers of wine or the resourceful characters who defy science and produce wine without using any grapes whatsoever.

3. A device used for watering.

   She installed an automatic waterer for her garden.

4. A device from which livestock, poultry, or pets may drink.

   Clean the chicks' waterer each time you refill it.

Synonyms

• (device from which poultry drink): fount

Translations

Anagrams

• rewater, wererat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??t?(?)d/
• Homophone: warted (some non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From water +? -ed.

Verb

watered

1. simple past tense and past participle of water

Etymology 2

From Middle English watered, watred, ywaterd, y-wattered, i-watred, i-watered, from Old English *wæterod, *?ewæterod, equivalent to water +? -ed. Cognate with West Frisian wetterd, Dutch verwaterd, German bewässert.

Adjective

watered (comparative more watered, superlative most watered)

1. Supplied with water.

   Keep the horses well fed and watered.

2. Marked with wavy lines like those made by water.

Derived terms

• watered stock

Anagrams

• dewater, tarweed