Crossword clues for septic
septic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Septic \Sep"tic\, a. [Septi- + -ic.] (Math.) Of the seventh degree or order. -- n. (Alg.) A quantic of the seventh degree.
Septic \Sep"tic\, Septical \Sep"tic*al\, a. [L. septicus, Gr. ????, fr. ???? to make putrid: cf. F. septique.] Having power to promote putrefaction.
Septic \Sep"tic\, n. A substance that promotes putrefaction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin septicus "of or pertaining to putrefaction," from Greek septikos "characterized by putrefaction," from sepein "make rotten or putrid, cause to rot" (see sepsis). Septic tank is attested from 1902.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 Of or pertaining to sepsis. 2 Causing sepsis or putrefaction. 3 Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage. alt. 1 Of or pertaining to sepsis. 2 Causing sepsis or putrefaction. 3 Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage. n. 1 A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction. 2 A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system. Etymology 2
a. (context mathematics English) Of the seventh degree or order. n. (context mathematics English) A mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven. Etymology 3
alt. (context UK Australia New Zealand rhyming slang derogatory English) An American, a Yank. n. (context UK Australia New Zealand rhyming slang derogatory English) An American, a Yank.
WordNet
adj. containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms; "a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic sewage" [ant: antiseptic]
of or relating to or caused by putrefaction; "the septic action occurs at the bottom of the septic tank"
Wikipedia
Septic may refer to:
- Septic shock, a medical condition
- Septic tank or septic system, a component of a small scale sewage disposal system
- Septic equation, a polynomial of degree seven
- Slang term for "American" in the Cockney dialect
- Sean William McLoughlin, an Irish YouTuber who goes by the name 'JackSepticEye'
Usage examples of "septic".
To this end, Brewster drew up plans for a septic tank and a leach field.
Exposing blood vessels and medullary cavities to the air can lead to septic inflammation and suppuration, which can kill large pieces of bone.
Cursory inspection turns up ratty bunk, gas stove, half a black-and-white print of James Dean with head on steering wheel, several septic razor blades, and a box of cereal with both flakes and enclosed coupon devoured by red ants.
He had dug a new septic tank, a new well, replumbed the place, put in new gas lines, had a natural-gas tank set, put on a new roof, and paid to run new phone and power lines from the main road.
Besides, except for the heat, flies, septic sores, the khamseen, bad water, dysentery, vaccination, inoculations many and various, digging holes, and a depressing sameness about the scenery, we had, according to some, little to grumble at.
Morton for not having gone to see the dentist and threatening him with gumboils, pyorrhoea, septic poisoning, indigestion and a complete set of false teeth if he persisted in behaving like a baby.
It is also possible that some of them may have been burned on his allotment in Saintsbridge, or disposed of in a septic tank at the farm the Wests had taken such pride in describing to Alison Chambers.
In those early days a primitive septic tank was a recurring problem, and Mother Clothilde made the mistake of digging it out personally, with the help of Sister Emma.
Gronke, the pharmacist, has a pharmacy on Neuer Markt that carries everything, corrosive, narcotic, and septic poisons.
Though unlicensed, he could steal and lay his own plumbing, do all the electric fixtures in a house, and hire five peons at slave wages to install a septic tank that would not overflow until the day after Joe died or left town.
He'd been out on Chappaquiddick digging a septic system for a beach house and couldn't get back to Edgartown until after four.
The vacation houses at Cocoa Beach were little boxes with front porches or "verandas" nailed onto them and a 1952 De Soto coupe with Venetian bunds in the rear window rusting in the salt air out back by the septic tank.
His interests ranged from upholstery materials for railway carriages to foundation creams for ladies, from cast-iron sluices suitable for septic tanks to breakfast cereals from England.
However, because it was connected to a septic collection station, it was now surrounded by a large cluster of new emergency housing.
Blink the chill of snow and awkward encumbering furs hated but essential, the skin side chewed supple by teeth now worn to stubs and one of them aching so much it nearly blinded the right eye, hands respectively clutching a tree-branch club and hanging limp from a tendon-slashing bite gone septic under a plaster of bruised leaves.