Sewage
['suːɪdʒ] or ['sʊɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers
(n.) Sewerage, 2.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Contents of a sewer, sewerage.[2]. Drainage.
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Examples
- The sewage disposal is often inadequate and badly planned, and the water becomes dangerously contaminated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There is still a great deal to be learned on this subject, and it is possible that chemically treated sewage may be made a source of income to a community rather than an expense. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This canal was designed to connect the Chicago River with the Mississippi River, so as to send the sewage of Chicago down the Mississippi instead of into Lake Michigan. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is not too much to say that every man and woman should know the source of his summer table water and the method of sewage disposal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It has been estimated that the drainage or sewage of England alone would be worth $ 80,000,000 a year if used as fertilizer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Hence, the greater the number of people in a hotel, or the more abundant the sewage, the greater should be the distance between well and sewer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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