Word Finder - scavenging

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To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material

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To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities

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To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle

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To feed on carrion or refuse

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The act of searching through refuse for useful material.

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Our scavengings at the rubbish dump often yielded items of value.

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That eats carrion

Many of them already roam the streets, scavenging from garbage bins for food.

The decay of this catch attracts scavenging organisms such as crustaceans, many of which can be commercially important species.

An absence of scavenging birds may suggest that the site was kept relatively clean at this stage of occupation.

Peasant woman scavenging for usable fuel on a state-owned coal mine slag heap that over-shadows her village.

Jackals are opportunistic feeders who are equally at home hunting small antelope or scavenging at larger kills.

In addition to non-enzymatic scavenging, ascorbate also detoxifies H 2 O 2 through the enzymatic reaction of ascorbate peroxidase (APX ).

It may well be that T.rex was an opportunist flesh eater, combining scavenging carrion with active predation.

Peasant scavenging for coal with his son on a state-owned coal mine slag heap.

They also provide the solution to the problems of scooping or scavenging that polyurethane squeegees create with larger apertures.

This should protect it from scavenging animals · Try to keep rubbish to a minimum.

Disease control Diseases are the major limiting factor for improving productivity in scavenging systems.

Again, in Oporto there is an area which combines every possible sanitary defect - dense overcrowding, great poverty, no light, no air, no drainage, no scavenging, water brought in buckets.

The act of 1894, as we have seen, not only established the Local Government Board, consisting of the secretary for Scotland, the solicitor-general, the under-secretary and three appointed members - a vice-president, a lawyer and a medical officer of public health - but also replaced the parochial boards by parish councils, empowered to deal among other things with poor relief, lunacy, vaccination, libraries, baths, recreation grounds, disused churchyards, rights of way, parochial endowments, and the formation of special lighting and scavenging districts.