Sanitary
['sænɪt(ə)rɪ] or ['sænə'tɛri]
Definition
(adj.) free from filth and pathogens; 'sanitary conditions for preparing food'; 'a sanitary washroom' .
Checked by Jeannette--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See APPROVE]
Typist: Lycurgus
Definition
adj. pertaining to tending or designed to promote health.—n. Sanitā′rian a promoter of sanitary reforms.—adv. San′itarily.—ns. San′itary-ware coarse-glazed earthenware for sewer-pipes; Sanitā′tion the science of sanitary conditions and of preserving health synonymous with Hygiene—usually restricted however to the methods and apparatus for making and maintaining houses healthy; Sanitō′rium (incorrectly Sanitā′rium) a health station particularly for troops.—Sanitary science such science as conduces to the preservation of health.
Checker: Michelle
Examples
- As the visitor passes down through the machine shop, he particularly notices the sanitary conditions of the plant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Also we were required to wear an automatic pistol; even doctors and sanitary officers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The standard of health may be raised and the lives of men prolonged by sanitary and medical knowledge. Plato. The Republic.
- Every hospital, board of health, and organized medical and sanitary body predicates its laws and modes of treatment upon the principles of bacteriology. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These lake villages had considerable defensive value, and there was a sanitary advantage in living over flowing water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Well, my dear, said Mr. Brooke, we have just come from a meeting--a sanitary meeting, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is within the memory of many now living everywhere how wretched was the sanitary accommodations in every populous place a generation or two ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The important sanitary feature in modern plumbing is to keep all sewer gas and disease germs out of the house. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Let me read some French, Mr. Moore, or I will even take a spell at the Latin grammar, and let us proclaim a truce to all sanitary discussions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Checker: Michelle