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sanitary

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sanitary pad COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN facility ▪ In these houses there was no proper conversion, and cooking and sanitary facilities were quite inadequate. ▪ I am sure, looking back on it, that it was rotting ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom" [syn: healthful ] [ant: unsanitary ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanitary \San"i*ta*ry\, a. [L. sanitas health: cf. F. sanitaire. See Sanity .] Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, "pertaining to health," from French sanitaire (1812), from Latin sanitas "health," from sanus "healthy; sane" (see sane ). In reference to menstrual pads, first attested 1881 (in sanitary towel ).

Usage examples of sanitary.

It was rather a delicate undertaking, for in Venice the sanitary laws are very strict, but in those days I delighted in doing, if not everything that was forbidden, at least everything which offered real difficulties.

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The various British attacks on villages east of the Struma, such as Nevolien, Jenikoi, Prosenik, and Barakli-Djuma, were thus merely raids, and the ground gained was soon evacuated for tactical or sanitary reasons.

Namese restock the medicine cabinets with the usual toiletries and sanitary supplies -- and packets of styptic powder for those gentlemen who still shaved with blades.

I mean the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, with their labors for the relief of the soldiers, and the Volunteer Refreshment Saloons, understood better by those who hear me than by myself, and these fairs, first begun at Chicago and next held in Boston, Cincinnati, and other cities.

The close confinement in the trenches tends to develop disease, and the sanitary force of the modern army is a thing that was undreamed of in the olden days.

They have the same power of changing their shape, of surrounding and swallowing scraps of food, as has the ameba, and are a combination of scavengers and sanitary police.

Such items include steam generator blowdown, shooting trash from the TDU, and blowing sanitary.

Maria hung her head over the sanitary blue water water that got bluer with every flush-emptying her sickened insides out, emptying and flushing in a steady rhythm.

Where local and foreign milk alike are drawn into a general plan for protecting the interstate commerce in the commodity from the interferences, burdens and obstructions, arising from excessive surplus and the social and sanitary evils of low values, the power of the Congress extends also to the local sales.

Roma sent the Garibaldian to the sanitary office for the doctor who was to verify the death, to the office of health to register it, and to the municipal office to arrange for the funeral.

He climbed into the tub like the first brave man to go down in a submarine, assumed a relatively comfortable supine position, camcorder resting momentarily on his chest, a compulsive-obsessive vampire at peace in his sanitary, enameled coffin.

When the furs were discarded and man chose a more sanitary life it was a question of time, but Pulex irritans was doomed.

I was put in charge, of issuing the rations and of a barrel of milk punch which the Sanitary Commission had sent down to be dealt out on the voyage to such as needed it.

The sanitary certificate was not even demanded, military honours were duly paid to me, and I was most civilly treated.