gray water

English

Alternative forms

• graywater, greywater, grey water

Noun

gray water (countable and uncountable, plural gray waters)

1. Water that is not clean enough to be potable, such as having been used for washing, but not contaminated with fecal matter or other source of dangerous bacteria or dangerous or noxious materials.
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Library of Babel”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     Its tunnels will have thinned like unhealthy arteries, before twisting and buckling under the weight of the shifting ice, slowly leaching diesel fuel, toxic chemicals like polychlorinated biphenyls, grey water and radiological waste.

Synonyms

• sullage

Coordinate terms

• black water, sewage

Translations

non-potable, but non-toxic water

• Afrikaans: gryswater
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: կենցաղային կեղտաջուր (kencʻaġayin keġtaǰur)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中水 (zhōngshuǐ), 灰水 (huīshuǐ), 可再利用廢水, 可再利用废水 (kě zài lìyòng fèishuǐ)

• Dutch: grijswater n
• Finnish: harmaa vesi, harmaavesi (fi), pesuvesi (fi)
• French: eau de ménage f, eaux grises (fr) f pl
• German: Grauwasser (de) n, Nutzwasser (de) n
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: woda szara (pl) f
• Portuguese: água cinza f
• Russian: се́рая вода́ f (séraja vodá), бытовы́е сто́чные во́ды f pl (bytovýje stóčnyje vódy)
• Spanish: aguas grises pl, agua gris m
• Vietnamese: nước xám

Further reading

• greywater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia