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单词 effluent
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Definition of effluent in English:

effluent

noun ˈɛflʊəntˈɛfluənt
mass noun
  • Liquid waste or sewage discharged into a river or the sea.

    废水,污水

    industrial effluent

    工业废水。

    count noun contamination with trade effluents

    工业废水的污染。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If effluent enters the river, bacteria use this food to multiply.
    • Farmers are now aware that silage effluent is highly polluting.
    • Most rivers - or what's left of them - are foul reservoirs of industrial effluents and sewage.
    • Ground water is polluted by industrial effluent and human waste.
    • If the farm allows effluent into the river, then the fishery suffers due to increased costs of water purification.
    • There were also 61 oil spills and 54 leaks of minerals and trade effluent.
    • The indiscriminate dumping of industrial effluents and civic waste, in combination with falling water levels have taken their toll.
    • The agency said there were high levels of nutrients, particularly phosphate and nitrate, which entered the river through sewage effluents and agricultural activities.
    • Treated effluent is still discharged into Maguires Creek, the Richmond River and the Pacific Ocean.
    • This dumping of industrial effluents into the rivers will affect the general health of livestock and human beings dependant on water from these rivers.
    • Late this season several thousand juvenile salmon died on an upper stretch of the Moy as a result of a discharge of effluent.
    • However, there were occasions when because of the poor quality industrial effluents being discharged into the river the water could carry no oxygen and it was impossible for fish to survive.
    • Pollution of water bodies by industrial effluents and civic waste is a crime on humanity and can no longer be ignored by the enforcing authorities.
    • Something similar happened when pig-farm effluent got into a river in Carolina in the US.
    • But we can't go on trying to deal with effluent and waste and toxins without putting in resources.
    • He said that the company, which admitted one count of discharging effluent, took environmental issues seriously.
    • We are well aware that to discharge untreated effluent into a water course is illegal and unacceptable.
    • The effluent contains a variety of industrial wastes but no estimate of their pollutional load is available.
    • Typical point sources of water pollution are manufacturing effluent and municipal waste.
    • It emerged last night that chemically treated human effluent was discharged at the site yesterday afternoon.
    Synonyms
    (liquid) waste, sewage, effluvium, outflow, discharge, emission
    pollutant, pollution

Origin

Late Middle English (in the adjective sense 'flowing out'): from Latin effluent- 'flowing out', from the verb effluere (see effluence). The noun dates from the mid 19th century.

  • affluent from Late Middle English:

    From Latin affluere ‘flow towards’, affluent was originally used to describe water either flowing towards a place or flowing freely without any restriction. It later came to mean ‘abundant’ and then ‘wealthy’, a meaning which dates from the mid 18th century. Related words, all based on Latin fluere ‘to flow’ are fluent (late 16th century) and fluid (Late Middle English); flume (Middle English) originally a stream; flux (Late Middle English) a state of flowing; effluent (Late Middle English) something that flows out; and superfluous (Late Middle English) ‘overflowing’.

Definition of effluent in US English:

effluent

nounˈɛfluəntˈeflo͞oənt
  • Liquid waste or sewage discharged into a river or the sea.

    废水,污水

    the bay was contaminated with the effluent from an industrial plant
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If the farm allows effluent into the river, then the fishery suffers due to increased costs of water purification.
    • Most rivers - or what's left of them - are foul reservoirs of industrial effluents and sewage.
    • If effluent enters the river, bacteria use this food to multiply.
    • It emerged last night that chemically treated human effluent was discharged at the site yesterday afternoon.
    • The agency said there were high levels of nutrients, particularly phosphate and nitrate, which entered the river through sewage effluents and agricultural activities.
    • Ground water is polluted by industrial effluent and human waste.
    • However, there were occasions when because of the poor quality industrial effluents being discharged into the river the water could carry no oxygen and it was impossible for fish to survive.
    • Typical point sources of water pollution are manufacturing effluent and municipal waste.
    • The indiscriminate dumping of industrial effluents and civic waste, in combination with falling water levels have taken their toll.
    • We are well aware that to discharge untreated effluent into a water course is illegal and unacceptable.
    • Pollution of water bodies by industrial effluents and civic waste is a crime on humanity and can no longer be ignored by the enforcing authorities.
    • Late this season several thousand juvenile salmon died on an upper stretch of the Moy as a result of a discharge of effluent.
    • There were also 61 oil spills and 54 leaks of minerals and trade effluent.
    • This dumping of industrial effluents into the rivers will affect the general health of livestock and human beings dependant on water from these rivers.
    • Farmers are now aware that silage effluent is highly polluting.
    • Treated effluent is still discharged into Maguires Creek, the Richmond River and the Pacific Ocean.
    • The effluent contains a variety of industrial wastes but no estimate of their pollutional load is available.
    • But we can't go on trying to deal with effluent and waste and toxins without putting in resources.
    • Something similar happened when pig-farm effluent got into a river in Carolina in the US.
    • He said that the company, which admitted one count of discharging effluent, took environmental issues seriously.
    Synonyms
    waste, liquid waste, sewage, effluvium, outflow, discharge, emission

Origin

Late Middle English (in the adjective sense ‘flowing out’): from Latin effluent- ‘flowing out’, from the verb effluere (see effluence). The noun dates from the mid 19th century.

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