喜樂美語
  1. 1（傷口）化膿的、受感染的。septic tank：化糞池（台灣就是這個詞，不是「敗血槽」）。

    A wound that is septic has bacteria in it. The skin may be red, hot, and swollen, and there may be . It is a medical-sounding adjective; in ordinary talk people often just say the wound is infected. There is another sense you will meet at least as often in everyday life: a septic tank, the large tank under a house that is not on city sewers. Bacteria in the tank break down the waste — same old idea of things rotting with tiny living things, now doing a useful job. In British slang, septic can mean an American (from septic tank rhyming with ). That is joke-slang, not the meaning this entry is for, and you can leave it aside in Taiwan unless you meet it in a British show.

From the word’s history

From Greek sēptikos 'characterized by putridity', from sēpō.

源自希臘文 sēptikos「腐爛的」，來自 sēpō「使腐爛」。

Wiktionary

組成From Ancient Greek sēptikós, “of rotting,” from the same family as sepsis.

同家族的字

  • sepsisthe noun for this kind of infection, same Greek root
  • septicaemiawhen that infection is in the blood
  • antiseptica substance that fights septic infection

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

septicadj詞源 1/ˈsep.tɪ̝k/

  • 1

    Of or pertaining to sepsis.

  • 2

    Causing sepsis or putrefaction.

  • 3

    Of or pertaining to sewage or the disposal of sewage.

    • septic tank
    • a septic system

septicnoun詞源 1/ˈsep.tɪ̝k/

  • 1

    A substance that causes sepsis or putrefaction.

    • 1750, John Pringle, Further Experiments on Substances Resisting Putrefaction, in 1809, Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson (editors), The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume X: 1750—1755, page 86, But, in the prosecution of this subject, he had met with very few real septics; and found many substances, commonly accounted such, of a quite opposite nature.
  • 2

    datedmedicinesciencesA person who has sepsis.

    • Acid-base balance data revealed moderately abnormal metabolic balance for both septics and nonseptics (in either direction) with normal respiratory balance or mild alkalosis.
  • 3

    A septic tank; a system for the disposal of sewage into a septic tank, a septic system.

    • The question is whether there are any spatial differences in how septics impact water quality, and whether these spatial variations should be considered when regulating septic improvement or removal.

septicnoun詞源 2/ˈsep.tɪ̝k/

  • 1

    mathematicssciencesA mathematical object (function, curve, surface, etc.) of degree seven.

    • Enriques states that it is possible to construct a family of septics with a singular curve of degree 7 and genus 4 having a triple point that degenerates to the above configuration[…].
    • Now consider the two septics C = U⁷ᵢ₌₁Cᵢ, D = U⁷ᵢ₌₁Dᵢ and note that for i = 1,2,3,4,5,6 the lines Cᵢ and Dᵢ are parallel, so that the intersection of two septics S' consists of 6⁶^([sic]) + 6 + 1 = 43 points and it is the singular set of a foliation of degree 6.

septicadj詞源 2/ˈsep.tɪ̝k/

  • 1

    mathematicssciencesOf the seventh degree or order.

septicnoun詞源 3/ˈsep.tɪ̝k/

  • 1

    slurslangAn American, a Yank.

    • Typical septic. Can't understand why the rest of the world thinks he's a fuck-knuckle.
    • “Didn′t enjoy the septics,” he says jokingly about the Americans.

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