Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Liquid and solid waste carried off in sewers or drains.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The matter which passes through sewers; excreted and waste matter, solid and liquid, carried off in sewers and drains. Also sewerage.
- n. Same as sewerage, 1.
- n. Synonyms See sewerage.
- To fertilize by the application of sewage.
- To furnish with sewers; drain with sewers; sewer.
Wiktionary
- n. A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
- n. sewerage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers.
- n. Sewerage, 2.
WordNet 3.0
- n. waste matter carried away in sewers or drains
Etymologies
- From sewer (“system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage”) + -age or from sew ("to drain or draw off water") + -age. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps sew, sewer (from Middle English, short for Anglo-Norman sewere; see sewer1) + -age. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term sewage many years ago was rightly applied to the excremental refuse of towns, but it is a most difficult matter to define the liquid that teems into our rivers under the name of sewage to-day; in most towns "chemical refuse" is the best name for the complex fluid running from the sewers.”
“The city forms its poisons which we call sewage and the body its poisons, which we call excreta (or carbonic acid, urea, uric acid, faeces, etc.)”
“All the wiring for power, water and sewage is in place.”
“Gas from sewage is just one part of a bigger project, which will see us using brewery and food waste and farm slurry to generate gas to heat homes.”
The Guardian: Human waste turned into renewable gas to power homes
“I mean the evil librarians and supermodel baggin sewage department are gold.”
“High rises waste tremendous amounts of energy and probably strain sewage and other facilities.”
“Unfortunately very little sewage is treated here in Xalapa, but a very large plant was inaugurated about 3 months ago.”
“Imagine the inspiration when the sewage is running.”
“Many people think that waste from mining, nuclear power, and even sewage is out of sight, out of mind.”
The Huffington Post: Manure, Nuclear Waste, Sewage, And Coal Ash: Scary Toxic Lagoons (PHOTOS)
“Many people think that waste from mining, nuclear power, and even sewage is out of sight, out of ...”
The Huffington Post: Manure, Nuclear Waste, Sewage, And Coal Ash: Scary Toxic Lagoons (PHOTOS)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sewage’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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ENVI - water protection
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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That STINKS!
Words having to do with terrible smells.
odor, putrid, stank, stink, smell, horrid, foul, putrecence, awful, rotting, garbage, toilet and 14 more...
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sewerly words
words that have to do with the sewers and the stuff that goes into them can be as gross as you like but stay on the topic of pipes poop and piles of sludge animals found in there are also welcome
sewage, sewerage, sludge, feces, poop, sewers, gunk, rat, mutant ninja turtles, alligator, sanitary sewer, storm sewer and 10 more...
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News haikus
It rhymes! But the news of the day doesn't have to, as long as it has 17 syllables.
ill will, stimulus, citizen, serval, undersea, sewage, aerosolization, lunch, strike, torch, fraternity, molecular and 2 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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words I have an irrational and burnin...
celesbian, crouch, perez hilton, slop, lotus boob, anal fissure, eat out, crotch, sewage, backwash, vomit, pus and 100 more...
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Words from "The Ghost Map"
"The Ghost Map", by steven Johnson, is a fascinating account of the (successful) investigation by two men, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, into the means by which cholera is transmitted, following t...
ghost map, epidemiology, dot map, voronoi diagram, index case, cholera, experimentum crucis, vibrio cholerae, microbe, germ theory, public health, animalcula and 61 more...
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haphazard's Words
repeal, resusitate, heavenly, godly, goodly, aggrandization, ixnay, reprimand, detriment, memorabilia, grueling, technophobe and 7 more...
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Quiet Morning in the KCHD
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sewage.
whichbe That which has had needlework done to it. Dec 17, 2008
asativum Welcome to Marin:
Sail. Stay. Fish. Play. Swim. Surf. Dine.
(Don't touch the water.)
-- Continued recommendation to avoid water near Marin sewage spill, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 2, 2008.
Feb 3, 2008