(n.) A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a group of inpatients interviewed, immunization coverage was 22%, 46% of the mothers had been enrolled in school at some time, and only 17% of the families had a latrine at home.
(2) The need for cleanliness of latrines and removal of stagnant water was emphasized.
(3) A questionnaire study was conducted in the Mushandike small scale irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe to investigate the following: 1) to establish whether field latrines are used or not; 2) to find out why people visit natural water bodies for bathing and laundry instead of using water from boreholes for these purposes; 3) to assess people's knowledge on the transmission and control of schistosomiasis.
(4) We already knew that water provision alone couldn’t break the cycle of faecal-oral disease transmission because open defecation, poor hygiene, and poorly built latrines are the main sources of faecal contamination in the environment and water, and the real reasons why diarrhoeal diseases persist despite advances in water provision.
(5) So that the villagers can use their latrines hygienically.
(6) 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.
(7) Even among those working in the field, we constantly hide behind clean-sounding words like sanitation, latrine, Wash [water sanitation and hygiene], open defecation.
(8) Only half of the households had a simple pit latrine.
(9) Infants from a family which increased water use and had a latrine grew 2.076 cm more than those infants in a family which increased water use and did not have a latrine (p=.0007).
(10) A pilot health education and sanitation project was implemented with the objectives of giving the secondary school students the knowledge and skills necessary for building domestic pit latrines in their villages.
(11) The physical plant must be protected from overcrowding in classrooms, lack of clean water and latrines, and free from the transmission of infectious and communicable diseases.
(12) No latrines were present in 61% of households and information on use, likes and dislikes was collected.
(13) The development of acquired resistance is a further factor influencing the search for new insecticides.The successful suppression of C. p. fatigans by larvicides will greatly depend on the use of suitable formulations, e.g., solid ones in pit latrines and septic tanks and dense liquid formulations in pukka and kutcha drains.
(14) In India, manual scavengers, who clean dry latrines, face severe social discrimination as they belong to the lowest stratum of India’s caste-based society – the Dalits, formerly known as “untouchables”.
(15) The survey was preceded by a sensitization of the people to the problem of intestinal parasites and by two preliminary surveys about the number of existing latrines and about people's believes and attitudes in relation to helmintiasis.
(16) This is taken to indicate that faecal pollution of the household environment is due more to promiscuous defecation than to poor construction or maintenance of the latrines.
(17) There were no significant relationships between number of households per latrine at each community and the prevalence and intensity of infection by hookworms and prevalence of roundworms.
(18) The kit is lent to a village for three or four weeks and each family is given the opportunity to use the kit to dig a pit latrine.
(19) Seeing pit latrine in Ghoretar at the school and health post had not been enough to motivate people to build their own domestic pit latrine.
(20) After allowing for confounding variables, the odds of stunting were 18 per cent lower among children in households with latrines (95 per cent confidence interval, 36 per cent lower to 3 per cent higher).
Slang
Definition:
() imp. of Sling. Slung.
(n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
(n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
(n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
(v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
() of Sling
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
(2) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
(3) Downing Street, reluctant to become involved in a slanging match , offered no response to the announcement last night.
(4) (You need to know that "dog" is pejorative slang in America for an ill-favoured woman).
(5) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
(6) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.
(7) Her videos have been "accessorised with black dancers" and she uses US street slang like "rachet" (ghetto-diva) in her lyrics.
(8) It was recommended that more attempts should be made to subdivide measures of social deviancy by means of slang as there is some evidence of possible further differentiation of subcultural types by means of slang.
(9) It was a piece of rag on which was written a message describing a "TOS", jailhouse slang for "terminate on sight".
(10) But it emerged afterwards he was simply using snowboarding slang, meaning to "go big".
(11) It was the first time in my life I'd been around guys talking in slang and patois – stuff that had been passed down – and I was fascinated.
(12) In my role as a journalist working for TÊTU , the biggest French gay-oriented magazine, I used to think French society was mature enough to face such a debate without resorting to slanging matches.
(13) In Alain's work, the mixture of graceful, sometimes slightly quaint French, Congolese rhythm and Parisian street slang is very complex, but it is a complexity achieved by him as a writer.
(14) According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett.
(15) All the classic ingredients of tabloid fare are there: vast wealth, broken promises, honour, shame, "krysha" – Russian for "roof" but a slang term meaning "protection" – and a few chateaux, yachts and flamboyant women thrown in too.
(16) Richard McLaren receives ‘deluge’ of requests after Wada doping report Read more “I don’t want to get into a slanging match with the IOC about the way they’ve handled it.
(17) It turned into a slanging match in which the Iranians came to the assistance of the Russians.
(18) Indeed, the recent dustup about supposedly fixed parliamentary elections was essentially a slanging-match between the Blairite pressure group Progress (largely funded by Lord Sainsbury, and founded by people close to such über-New Labour types as Peter Mandelson), and the trade union Unite, whose leader Len McCluskey has recently been heard bemoaning the power held by "Oxbridge Blairites".
(19) Jungle don mature” [the jungle has matured] goes the Nigerian slang meaning: “the game is on.” It is a phrase on the lips of more than one Nigerian political commentator and aptly describes the tension as Africa’s most populous nation gears up for presidential elections just eight weeks away.
(20) Conrad also took Kimball to task for his lack of understanding of much of the slang Tsarnaev used in his tweets.