"septic tank" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: septic tanks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} septic tank (plural septic tanks)
  1. A small-scale watertight treatment system for domestic sewage in which the flow is slowed to allow sedimentation and sludge digestion by bacteria to take place. Coordinate_terms (domestic sewage system): cesspit, cesspool Translations (watertight treatment system for domestic sewage): 化糞池 (Chinese Mandarin), 化粪池 (huàfènchí) (Chinese Mandarin), septik [masculine] (Czech), septic tank (Dutch), septische tank (Dutch), septische put (Dutch), sakokaivo (english: underground) (Finnish), saostussäiliö (english: above ground) (Finnish), septitankki (english: small scale, as in vehicle) (Finnish), fosse septique [feminine] (French), Klärgrube [feminine] (German), βόθρος (vóthros) [masculine] (Greek), fossa biologica [feminine] (Italian), 浄化槽 (jōkasō) (alt: じょうかそう) (Japanese), septiktank [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), septiktank [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), szambo [neuter] (Polish), fossa [feminine] (Portuguese), fossa séptica [feminine] (Portuguese), се́птик (sɛ́ptik) [masculine] (Russian), отстойник (otstojnik) [masculine] (Russian), fosa séptica [feminine] (Spanish), poso negro (Tagalog), posa septika (Tagalog), foseptik (Turkish), lağım çukuru (Turkish), אָפּגאַנגגרוב (opganggrub) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-septic_tank-en-noun-U4u8azc6 Disambiguation of 'domestic sewage system': 94 6 Disambiguation of 'watertight treatment system for domestic sewage': 99 1
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang, Australian rhyming slang) Yank (American person). Tags: Australian, Cockney, slang Synonyms (rhyming slang for Yank): Seppo, seppo Derived forms: Seppo, seppo
    Sense id: en-septic_tank-en-noun-Wyi4hDph Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 76 Disambiguation of 'rhyming slang for Yank': 8 92

Inflected forms

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