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Dirt vs Sewage - What's the difference?

dirt | sewage |

As nouns the difference between dirt and sewage

is that dirt is animal while sewage is a suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.

dirt

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • soil or earth
  • A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
  • Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
  • The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
  • Meanness; sordidness.
  • * Melmoth
  • honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
  • In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
  • Derived terms

    * dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
  • sewage

    English

    Noun

  • A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
  • (obsolete) sewerage.
  • Synonyms

    * wastewater

    Derived terms

    * raw sewage

    See also

    * slop * sludge * sewer system * sewage treatment * waste management