A puddle in a forest clearing

A water puddle on a Danish beach

A puddle is a small accumulation of liquid, usually water, uncontained on a surface. It can form either in depressions in the surface, or directly upon the flat surface, held together by surface tension. A puddle is generally considered to be small enough to step over or shallow enough to walk through, and too small to traverse with a boat, raft or submarine. Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 946 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 946 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (893x553, 665 KB) En: Marks of the wind in a puddle. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (893x553, 665 KB) En: Marks of the wind in a puddle. ... For other uses, see Liquid (disambiguation). ... Impact from a water drop causes an upward rebound jet surrounded by circular capillary waves. ... This box:      Surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. ... For other uses, see Boat (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Raft (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Submarine (disambiguation). ...

Behaviour

Puddles commonly form during rainstorms, and can cause problems for transport, especially when combined with cold conditions to form patches of ice, which are highly slippery and difficult to see. Due to the angle of the road, puddles tend to be forced by gravity to gather on the edge of the road. This causes the notorious 'splash' as cars drive quickly through the puddle, which causes water to be sprayed onto pedestrians on the adjacent pavement. A puddle on a road is commonly referred to as a Wooosher. Sometimes, irresponsible drivers will do this deliberately. Such activity is frowned upon, and in some countries can lead to prosecutions for careless driving [1]. This article is about precipitation. ... This article is about water ice. ... Water bouncing upwards after water droplet hits it In fluid mechanics, a splash is a sudden disturbance to the otherwise quiescent free surface of a liquid (usually water) The disturbance is typically caused by a solid object suddenly hitting the surface, although splashes can occur in which moving liquid supplies... Look up Pedestrian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Management

Small Puddle and Reflection of Garages and House

Puddles tend to evaporate quickly due to the high surface area-to-volume ratio, allowing a large number of molecules to be vapourised at once, and as such tend to be short lived. However, due to this property, puddles of chemicals such as bromine, which produce highly toxic vapour, are considered highly dangerous and spills such as this must be dealt with immediately, with emergency evacuation as a common step. In erik, a reflection (also spelled reflexion) is a map that transforms an object into its mirror image. ... House at Cúcuta, Colombia A house is a building typically lived in by one or more people. ... Vaporization redirects here. ... Bromo redirects here. ... Emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event. ...

In order to deal with puddles, roads and pavements are often built with a camber (technically called 'crowning'), being slightly convex in nature, to force puddles to drain into the gutter, which has storm drain grates to allow the water to drain into the sewers. In addition to this, some surfaces are made to be porous, allowing the water to drain straight through the surface to the aquifer below. Camber may refer to: Camber, East Sussex, a seaside resort in England, near to Camber Sands. ... Storm drain in use A storm drain, storm sewer, stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) or surface water system (UK) is designed to drain excess rain and ground water from paved streets, parking lots, sidewalks, and roofs. ... An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, silt, or clay) from which groundwater can be usefully extracted using a water well. ...

Recreation

A child in a puddle in Vancouver, Canada

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History

Medieval legend spoke of one man who was desperate to find building materials for his house, so he stole cobblestones from the road surface. The remaining hole filled with water and a horseman who later walked through the 'puddle' actually found himself drowning. A similar legend, of a young boy drowning in a puddle that formed in a chuckhole in a major street in the early years of Seattle, Washington, is told as part of the Seattle Underground Tour. A cobblestone-covered street Cobblestones are stones used in the pavement of early streets. ... The city of Los Angeles is famous for its large potholes. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ... The Seattle Underground is a network of underground passageways and basements in downtown Seattle, Washington that was originally the areas ground level. ...

A children's nursery rhyme records the story of Doctor Foster and his encounter with a puddle in Gloucester. Doctor Foster is a nursery rhyme. ...

When Walter Raleigh met Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh is reputed to have thrown his coat over a muddy puddle to allow the Queen to cross without getting her feet wet. Such activities were once considered to be chivalrous, but are less common nowadays. This article is about the sixteenth-century explorer. ... Elizabeth I Queen of England and Ireland Queen of France, nominal title Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533–March 24, 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death. ... This article is about a type of online computer game. ... Bors Dilemma - he chooses to save a maiden rather than his brother Lionel Chivalry[1] is a term related to the medieval institution of knighthood. ...

England’s Oldest Puddle

The Oxfordshire town of Wallingford is home to England’s oldest recorded puddle. There has been a puddle on the pavement at the corner of Fir Tree Avenue and Wantage Road since April 1976. The puddle’s longevity is in large part due to the disrepair of the pavement – the local authority has not resurfaced the pavement since 1978. The puddle was initially a source of frustration for local residents who regularly lobbied both the District and County Councils in an effort to have the pavement resurfaced. However, both South Oxfordshire District Council and Oxfordshire County Council insist that it is the responsibility of the other. The dispute between the two Councils is likely to have arisen out of the local government reorganisation of 1974 when Wallingford was transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire. Subsequently the puddle itself has become something of an ironic tourist attraction and is now the starting point for a local pub crawl called the “Wally Run”.^[1] Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... Map sources for Wallingford at grid reference SU6089 Wallingford is a small town in Oxfordshire in southern England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A pub like this would be a likely stop on a pub crawl. ...

Biology

Animals often use puddles either as a drinking source, a bath, or, in the case of some smaller animals, an entire habitat. Puddles are also vital for bathing birds. For other uses, see Bird (disambiguation). ...

Puddles which do not evaporate quickly can become standing water, which can become polluted by decaying organisms and are often home to breeding mosquitos, which can act as vectors for diseases such as malaria. Water stagnation occurs when water stops flowing. ... Air pollution Pollution is the introduction of pollutants (whether chemical substances, or energy such as noise, heat, or light) into the environment to such a point that its effects become harmful to human health, other living organisms, or the environment. ... For other uses, see Mosquito (disambiguation). ... Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. ...

Swallows use the damp loam which gathers in puddles as a form of cement to help to build their nests. The reduction in the number of puddles in the countryside due to intensive farming and climate change is partially to blame for a decrease in the swallows' numbers. Genera Many, see text. ... Loam field Loam is soil composed of sand, silt, and clay in relatively even concentration (about 40-40-20% concentration respectively). ... For other uses, see Cement (disambiguation). ... Intensive farming or intensive agriculture is an agricultural production system characterized by the high inputs of capital or labour relative to land area. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 450,000 years For current global climate change, see Global warming. ...

Physics

In the physics context puddles may refer to where a liquid form patches of liquid ontop of a surface of a solid material. A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... For other uses, see Liquid (disambiguation). ... This box:      For other uses, see Solid (disambiguation). ...

Small puddles of water on a smooth clean surface have perceptible thickness.

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Military

In the military terminology, puddles are considered to be "liquid terrain obstacles deprived of tactical importance".

Notes

1. ^ Sue Clifford and Angela King, England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2006),p.193.