| 词汇 | sewer |
| 释义 | sewer noun[ C ] uk /sʊər/ us /ˈsuː.ɚ/ a large pipe, usually underground, that is used for carrying waste water and human waste away from buildings to a place where they can be safely got rid of: 下水道;排污管;阴沟 a sewer pipe污水管 A complicated system of sewers runs under the city.城市的地下布有复杂的排污系统。 open sewer a channel for carrying away waste water and waste from the human body that is above the ground and is not covered: 明沟 Next to the filthy alley is what appears to be an open sewer. Building: plumbing, pipes & sewage ballcock black water catch basin caulking cesspit gurgler hot-water tank hydrant influent isolator leakage plumb plunger septic tank sewage sewage works siphon spigot standpipe waterworks sewer | American Dictionarysewer noun[ C ] us/ˈsu·ər/ an artificial passage or pipe, usually underground, that carries waste and used water from sinks and toilets away from buildings to a place where they can be safely gotten rid of: The county is putting in new sewers. Examples of sewersewer Trucks of the streets and sewers departments were used in moving the flood menaced families to various school houses located on higher grounds. We retrieved our equipment and recarpeted the sewers. Their salaries merely covered their supervision of the repair and cleansing of sewers. Her house was not directly connected to the sewers of the commission, and existed on an elevation. There are other important legal issues surrounding sewers not discussed in this article. Low levels of capital expenditure on sewers do not mean that improvements were not taking place in the collection and disposal of wastes. In terms of their construction costs, sewers and streets are far less capital-intensive than water supply. Such sewers differed from the emphasis on comprehensiveness and system that characterized the new kind of sewerage. The neighbourhood has good street conditions, natural gas, electrical power, sewers, public lighting, and a refuse-collection service. The large faintly speckled area in the upper left of the map is an area of parkland with no sewers or manholes. In fact, the vast majority of the capital's sewers had long possessed semi-circular bottoms. As we have already noted, in 1901-1905 (the years of peak investment in all services) sewers were still only receiving half the capital expenditure annually dedicated to water. Though most commissions rated many property owners who were not directly connected to the sewers, they did omit selected groups of ratepayers deemed to derive no benefit. The early negative effect of misguided sanitary investment was not fully cancelled out until the major increase in investment in sewers and streets began in the 1890s. The plot is a bit of an urban leftover, an eccentric combination of fragments of subdivided lots, traversed by both sanitary and open storm sewers [5]. See all examples of sewer These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withsewersewerThese are words often used in combination with sewer. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. combined sewer Infiltration into sewers therefore has an insignificant bearing on such issues as sewage treatment, the operation of combinedsewer overflows and flooding from sewers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 sanitary sewer A site plan usually shows a building footprint, travelways, parking, drainage facilities, sanitary sewer lines, water lines, trails, lighting, and landscaping and garden elements. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. sewer line This aerosol may have escaped through manholes that were used for ventilation along the sewerline. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with sewer |
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