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hygiene
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Word definitions for hygiene in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a condition promoting sanitary practices; "personal hygiene" the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health [syn: hygienics ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The science of health, its promotion and preservation. 2 Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health. 3 cleanliness. 4 (cx computing slang of a macro English) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from French hygiène , ultimately from Greek hygieine techne "the healthful art," from hygies "healthy," literally "living well" (personified as the goddess Hygieia ), from PIE *eyu-gwie-es- "having a vigorous life." The Greek adjective was used by ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES hygiene regulations (= relating to keeping restaurants, hotel kitchens etc clean ) ▪ Hygiene regulations stipulate that the caterer must use suitable equipment. safety/hygiene/quality etc standards ▪ All our products ...
Usage examples of hygiene.
As Zella and I prepped the patient, they went through the Detainment Area, and came back with a small garment-repair kit, a thermal braising tool, and a pile of personal hygiene sponges.
The fourth and fifth books take up hygiene, special dietetics, and general pathology.
The setting may be clinical, but the enema must be administered for punishment rather than health or hygiene, and always In conjunction with spanking.
Every eugenist must wish them success in their efforts to promote sex hygiene, but it is a matter of regret that they can not place their efforts in the proper light, for their masquerade as a eugenic propaganda has brought undeserved reproach on the eugenics movement.
The good hygiene discipline now practised by all our units in Burma, the use of the new drug Mepacrine, and constant spraying with D.
They will assemble mountains of facts about housing, rents, hygiene, income, population, literacy and numeracy, crime, fire, and the number of children, aged and slaves in every family.
It was a severe principle, phyletic hygiene, but it averted much suffering.
The great plague which wasted Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and reappeared in the seventeenth, had been identified with a disease which yields to enlightened treatment, and its ancient virulence was attributed to ignorance of hygiene, and the filthy habits of a former age.
Cowley needed a lot of luck to get laid, what with his acne, his distaste for personal hygiene and his undershot jaw.
They were awful, unglorious deaths, and no one had even been sure if one of the war bugs was responsible, or the cold and hunger and near total lack of modem hygiene.
As if watching Luciano playing tug-of-war with the bottles of Barolo wasnt humiliating enough, now to be confronted with her own utter lack of skills in the domestic hygiene department was mortifying beyond belief.
Hugh and Barong and Mental emerged from the bathroom, glowing with cleanliness and mental hygiene.
So let me get this straight: the deuteronomists, through Hezekiah, impose a policy of informational hygiene on Jerusalem and do some civil-engineering work -- you said they worked on the water supply?
Indeed, the dominant discourses of AIDS prevention have been all about hygiene: We must avoid contact and use protection.
Aside from your own genetic and organic microbial matter, in the form of shed skin and faecal material, there are all the polymer and long-chain molecules not naturally occurring here that are present in your clothing and your hygiene products.