Timeline for How would you say a "pila" (Spanish) for water in English?
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| Sep 21, 2021 at 6:21 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | You can use an outdoor sink for washing clothes, dishes, rinsing garden tools etc. That people use an open container to store water for weeks or even months at a time seems an excellent breeding ground for all sorts of parasites, insects, mosquitoes and algae especially in hot weather. | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 5:05 | comment | added | tripleee | I'm thinking reservoir, though the common image is a large one. | |
| Sep 21, 2021 at 4:28 | answer | added | Allen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 7, 2020 at 10:36 | vote | accept | Federico Navarrete | ||
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| Dec 1, 2020 at 13:38 | answer | added | mdewey | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 11:10 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Oh, sorry - I had assumed it was one of those public water sources used before houses had piped water. I'm not familiar with the custom of storing water in an open container. I can only describe it as a sink with a water trough attached. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 10:59 | answer | added | Qroqodeal | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Dec 1, 2020 at 10:28 | comment | added | Federico Navarrete | Hi @ededededed87. Yes and no. A sink is mainly used for washing. The thing I shared, you use to retain water for several days or months also. You take water from the one stored and later, you can wash them whenever you have time. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 10:19 | comment | added | ededededed87 | It seems very similar to a sink in function so that's probably what I would call it. From google: "a fixed basin with a water supply and outflow pipe." Used for all the things you described. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 10:17 | comment | added | Federico Navarrete | Hi @KateBunting. Communal water supply, I don't think so. People tend to have them in their houses and they are for private usage. Later, water tap or faucet? Is it not only the device that delivers the water? I'd focus on the entire one not only the faucet. | |
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| Dec 1, 2020 at 10:14 | comment | added | Federico Navarrete | Hi @ededededed87. They tend to be in our houses. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 9:57 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | It's not a font, which is for baptismal water in a church. I have seen old, ornamental examples in Switzerland, where they are called fontaine in French (not the same thing as the English word fountain). See Communal water supply is probably your best bet, or water tap (British)/ faucet (US). | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 9:56 | comment | added | ededededed87 | Are these public and free for anyone to use? If they are and I was trying to describe it to a friend I would probably call it a communal sink. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 9:55 | comment | added | Weather Vane | We don't normally use a trough or a set of basins / sinks like that, so there isn't a commonly used word that I know of. | |
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