Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of contaminating.
- n. The state of being contaminated.
- n. One that contaminates.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of contaminating, or the state of being contaminated; pollution; defilement; taint.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
- n. linguistics A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
- n. The process of making a material or surface unclean or unsuited for its intended purpose, usually by the addition or attachment of undesirable foreign substances.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
- n. the state of being contaminated
- n. a substance that contaminates
Examples
“Not to mention the fact that the prions responsible for the disease just don't go away -- once they're in the soil, long term contamination is a major issue.”
“All this goes to show that perhaps "contamination" is not the way to look at it.”
“As a result deer to deer contact and local site contamination is less likely to occur at a food plot than at a bait site or feeding station thus significantly reducing the risk of disease transmission at a food plot.”
“The bacterium typically lives in the intestine of cattle, so a primary source of contamination is undercooked beef.”
“February 6th, 2010 at 5: 56 pm glamourdammerung says: drhunt says: glamour-first of all, heavy metal contamination is no longer an issue with distilling water from whatever source.”
“Some contamination is inadvertent, such as pesticide residues in cows that drink water fouled by crop runoff.”
“Although the extent of long-term contamination is not yet fully known, disturbing evidence is emerging.”
“Experience tells us that the point of contamination is likely at the farm level, which can then be spread during the entire processing chain," Allen said.”
FDA investigating E. coli in Arizona after lettuce recall hits 23 states
“Fighting smog and water contamination is one thing.”
EPA head to fundraise for DSCC while oil spreads. | RedState
“Mr. PAUL O'BRIEN (Overseas Director, Concern Worldwide): Usually, the contamination is in the feces of infected people.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘contamination’.
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ENVI - general
abatement potential, adiabatic process, afforestation, albedo, alkene, anthropic activity, anthropogenic dis..., anthropogenic for..., anthropogenic, of..., olefin, atmospheric conve..., atmospheric tides and 229 more...
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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CSI-Wordnik
Parodies CSI series with words that might be part of crime scene investigation
autopsy, biohazard, bloodstained, cadaver, contamination, coroner, evidence, fingerprint, forensic, morgue, pathology, rigor mortis and 10 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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vaca 22000_5
vaca 22000_5
pollution, contamination, wastes, recycle, acid rain, the ozone layer, green house effect, preservation, conservation, wild life, endangered species, habitat
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5yllable5's Words
educational, hydroelectric, kapiolani, kamehameha, serendipitous, procrastination, abomination, inexplicable, hypothetical, tyrannosaurus, miscellaneous, disingenuous and 79 more...
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Lucid Nutrition
camu camu, spirulina, wheat grass, longevity, macrobiotics, ayurveda, supplement, genome, epigenetics, homeopathy, vegetarian, raw food and 60 more...
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