| 单词 | waste matter |
| 释义 | waste matter (once / 40617 pages) n WORD FAMILY waste matter: waste matters USAGE EXAMPLESBut when the waste matter hits the ventilation device, there is no substitute. Seattle Times(Oct 02, 2016) Enemas can help get rid of most waste matter. Salon(Jul 27, 2015) It was truly waste matter, with no nutrients in it. Yann Martel, Life of Pi(2001) n any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted Syn|Hypo|Hyper waste, waste material, waste product dross, impurity worthless or dangerous material that should be removed exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumesgases ejected from an engine as waste products body waste, excrement, excreta, excretion, excretory productwaste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body crud, filth, skankany substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant sewage, seweragewaste matter carried away in sewers or drains effluent, sewer water, wastewaterwater mixed with waste matter food waste, garbage, refuse, scrapsfood that is discarded (as from a kitchen) pollutantwaste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil rubbish, scrap, trashworthless material that is to be disposed of slop(usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand toxic industrial waste, toxic wastepoisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means) DDT, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanean insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 CFC, chlorofluorocarbona fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans halona compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer nitrogen oxideany of several oxides of nitrogen formed by the action of nitric acid on oxidizable materials; present in car exhausts BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stoolsolid excretory product evacuated from the bowels feculaexcreta (especially of insects) wormcastcylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm human wastethe body wastes of human beings barf, puke, vomit, vomitusthe matter ejected in vomiting scrap metaldiscarded metal suitable for reprocessing debris, detritus, dust, junk, rubblethe remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up litterrubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places) guanothe excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer sulfur dioxide, sulphur dioxidea colorless toxic gas (SO2) that occurs in the gases from volcanoes; used in many manufacturing processes and present in industrial emissions; causes acid rain material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
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