Sewage vs Manure - What's the difference?
sewage | manure |
A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
(obsolete) sewerage.
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
* Surrey
* John Donne
To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
* Shakespeare
Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
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Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not.
* Sir Humphry Davy
As nouns the difference between sewage and manure
is that sewage is a suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed while manure is animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.As a verb manure is
to cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.sewage
English
Noun
Synonyms
* wastewaterDerived terms
* raw sewageSee also
* slop * sludge * sewer system * sewage treatment * waste managementmanure
English
Verb
(manur)- to whom we gave the strand for to manure
- Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
- The farmer manured his fallow field.
- The blood of English shall manure the ground.
Derived terms
* manurableSee also
* to fertilizeNoun
- Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure ; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.
