(n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are mainly represented by latrines, where Anjouan ethnic group is predominent; by cesspools in localities inhabited by Sakalava (a Malagasian ethnic group) and by other latrines and cesspools in mahoraises (inhabitants of Mayotte) and cosmopolitan localities.
(2) Unlike Iceland, where the government let misbehaving banks fail and talented kids became less interested in leaping into the cesspool of finance, in New York there has been no public rejection of the culture that led to the financial crisis.
(3) A tiny number of officers trained to degree-standard qualifications "vanish into the cesspool" of an unreformed system, according to one US army police trainer.
(4) In rural areas, the percentage of habitations with cesspools usually increases with the size of the villages.
(5) The sanitation aides assisted in drawing plans and selecting building, cesspool, and well sites.
(6) These emptied into unsanitary cesspools and privy vaults generally located beneath or adjacent to the factory.
(7) A cesspool of misery next to a world of growing prosperity is both terrible for those in the cesspool and dangerous for those who live next to it.
(8) Instead of immediately assuming ballot selfies will send our political system deeper into the cesspool of corruption, couldn’t we marshal the allure of social sharing for collective good?
(9) The north-west of Bosnia and the Drina Valley in which the worst atrocities occurred remain cesspools of the hatred that led to the slaughter; a crazed, nonsensical mixture of justification and denial which suggests that, given a fair wind, the communities for whom Mladic is a hero would do it all again.
(10) Slowly, we walk through the groundfloor, most of it knee-deep in water you wouldn't want to touch: "Everyone's on cesspool drainage round here," says Steve.
(11) The breeding-sites of C. p. fatigans are either man-made (latrines, cesspools, various containers), or natural (polluted water of estuaries of some rivers).
(12) He added that it had been very difficult at Myspace to keep up with "offensive" photos; without that control, a social network "turns into a cesspool that no one wants to visit … sorta like Myspace was".
(13) Not far from the beautiful beaches, hip suburbs and great cuisine that saw it recently named the world's top tourist destination by one website , women in Khayelitsha could be seen last week drawing water from a communal tap near cesspools strewn with rubbish.
(14) The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy called it “a lively and legitimate way to tackle urgent subject matter that other film-makers have found excuses to avoid”, while Variety’s Justin Chang named it “a sprawling, blistering state-of-the-union address that presents Chicago’s South Side as a cesspool of black-on-black violence.” The plot is loosely based on Greek comedy Lysistrata and follows women going on a sex strike in an attempt to stop the increasing gun violence in the city.
(15) North Korea has now threatened to attack “the White House, the Pentagon and the whole US mainland, the cesspool of terrorism” should such action occur.
(16) In many cases lack of street paving, insufficient water, proliferating cesspools and open sewers turned them into cloying, degrading and offensive mires.
(17) The social network can be a cesspool for talking about race , but I was so incensed over the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson this week and I needed to know: Why did my white friends avoid talking about race ?
Pool
Definition:
(n.) A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.
(n.) A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
(n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
(n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
(n.) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
(n.) Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
(n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
(n.) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
(n.) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
(v. t.) To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.
(v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(2) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(3) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
(4) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
(5) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(6) After absorption of labeled glucose, two pools of trehalose are found in dormant spores, one of which is extractable without breaking the spores, and the other, only after the spores are disintegrated.
(7) In patients who had undergone gastric operations, the efficacy of a parenteral rehabilitation with plasma, human albumin and Aminofusin L forte was determined by assessing the extravascular albumin pool.
(8) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(9) Alkaline borohydride treatment released over 95% of the oligosaccharide units in pool I and approximately 30% of the oligosaccharide units in pool III.
(10) Cultures of Streptococcus mutans HS-6, OMZ-176, Ingbritt C, 6715-wt13, and pooled human plaque were grown in trypticase soy media with or without 1% sucrose.
(11) F(ab')2 fragment of IgG prepared from pooled immune sera was administered intravenously without side effects.
(12) The release of possible peptide hormones into the interpeduncular cistern, where a pool of cerebrospinal fluid and large blood vessels occur, cannot be excluded.
(13) It is suggested that the cause of this inhibition resides in depletion of the NADPH pool due to the high rate at which NADPH is oxidized by 2-ketogluconate reductase.
(14) When the results of the different studies are pooled, however, there is a significant difference between those patients with true infarction, and those in whom infarction was excluded, in terms of overall mortality (12% and 7%; P less than 0.0001) and the development of subsequent non-fatal infarction (11% and 6%; P less than 0.05) when the results are analysed for a period of follow-up of one year.
(15) Term pregnancy (TP) or nonpregnancy (NP) pooled sera were fractionated on a S-300 neutral column.
(16) Observations were also made in pooled plasma of 6 months old infants.
(17) Starting from the observation that the part above 6 Hz of the power spectrum of force tremor during isometric contractions can be related to the unfused twitches of motor units firing asynchronously, an attempt was made to study the usefulness of force tremor spectral analysis as a global descriptor of motoneurone pool activity.
(18) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(19) These findings suggest an increased central pool free cholesterol synthesis in individuals possessing the apo epsilon-4 versus epsilon-2 allele.
(20) But prealbumin-2, which has lower affinity towards thyroxine, participates mainly in a rapid flux of the free thyroxine pool.