Virtual water trade refers to the hidden flow of water if food or other commodities are traded from one place to another. For instance, it takes 1,340 cubic meters of water to produce one metric tonne of wheat. The precise volume can be more or less depending on climatic conditions and agricultural practice. Hoekstra and Chapagain have defined the virtual-water content of a product as the volume of freshwater used to produce the product, measured at the place where the product was actually prod
Top definition. Spidey sense. Derived from the Spidey sense of the comic book superhero Spiderman, it is generally used to mean a vague but strong sense of something being wrong, dangerous, suspicious, a security situation.
Dictionaries refer to it being Low or High German, spire, spier, Middle English espyen to spy or Old French espier. In Gaelic it means someone who is inquisitive, the gaelic word, speir, also means an animal s hind leg joint or an ankle. In Scotland a spier rope is to do with boats. The name is common in Renfrewshire.pier is also of Jewish (Ashkenazic) origin. Some would have given themselves the name of their home town once the use of a surname became necessary. In Europe at War 1600-1650 p 92, one of Mansfield s men recorded that The bishopric of SPEIER is ours.