What's the difference between cesspool and underground?

Cesspool


Definition:

  • (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 ?

Underground


Definition:

  • (n.) The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
  • (a.) Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.
  • (a.) Done or occurring out of sight; secret.
  • (adv.) Beneath the surface of the earth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
  • (2) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
  • (3) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
  • (4) The logistics of maintaining and supplying underground clinics located in war-torn rural Afghanistan are presented.
  • (5) German intelligence services had also been keeping tabs on the rightwing radical scene that Zschäpe was a part of, but had lost track of her, along with Mundlos and Böhnhardt when they went underground.
  • (6) In the still active mine workers, dynamic spirometry results showed no difference between smokers or nonsmokers or between underground and surface workers.
  • (7) That said, Turin’s creative scene is quite underground, so you have to seek out the best work.
  • (8) During the non-heating months of June, July and August of 1974, the total and respirable dust content at an underground station of the Newark City Subway System was determined.
  • (9) Part of the initial work has involved London Underground strengthening the structure of Temple tube station by the Thames so the north end of the bridge could sit on top of it.
  • (10) This may serve evidence for the absence of a common morphofunctional underground for this process.
  • (11) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
  • (12) Excess risks of lung cancer were found in both underground workers (SMR 3.41; 95% CI 1.10-7.97; based on 5 deaths) and surface workers (SMR 1.87, 95% CI 1.18-2.81; based on 23 deaths).
  • (13) Chest X-ray and sputum cytology were used to detect lung cancer among subjects with an underground work history over 10 years and over 40 years of age.
  • (14) Anyone studying the question with an open mind will almost certainly come to a similar conclusion: if we and our children are to have a reasonable chance of living stable and secure lives 30 or so years from now, according to one recent study 80% of the known coal reserves will have to stay underground , along with half the gas and a third of the oil reserves.
  • (15) His initial exposure to leftist ideas was via the underground hippy press which provided him "with a certain amount of scepticism".
  • (16) For example, if the risk estimates from underground miners' studies are, in truth, not applicable to home exposures and overestimate the gradient of risk from home exposure to radon by, for example, a factor of 2, then enormously large numbers of subjects would be required to detect the difference.
  • (17) He hadn't seen his children very much even before he went to prison because he was always busy running around, hiding underground.
  • (18) Transport for London said a planned tube drivers' strike on the London Underground service on Boxing Day is unlikely to cause serious extra disruption should it go ahead, although works are planned on many lines.
  • (19) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
  • (20) It was concluded that the study did not provide support for the hypothesis that underground coalmining increases the risk of gastric cancer.

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