Noun
- 1. Wells, H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells
- usage: prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)
Noun
- 1. Wells, H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells
- usage: a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- 2. well, excavation
- usage: a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- 3. well, vessel
- usage: an abundant source; "she was a well of information"
- 4. well, wellspring, fountainhead, source
- usage: an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- 5. well, shaft
- usage: an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
Verb
- 1. well, swell, surface, come up, rise up, rise
- usage: come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"
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