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Building dictionary for the letter S - Page 12
Sewage
Any liquid home waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or solution. Sewage may include chemicals in solution; ground, surface, or storm water may be added as it is admitted to or passes through the sewers.
Sewage treatment
Any process to which sewage is subjected to remove or alter its objectionable constituents by reduction in the organic and bacterial content, rendering it less offensive and dangerous.
Sewage disposal
The treatment and dispersal of sewage.
Sewage ejector
A plumbing device used to raise sewage to a higher elevation.
Sewage treatment plant
Structures and appurtenances that receive raw sewage and bring about a reduction in organic and bacterial content of the waste so as to render it less dangerous and less odorous.
Sewer
(1) Generally, an underground conduit in which waste matter is carried in a liquid medium. (2) A pipeline in which sewage is conveyed.
Sewer gas
See sewage gas.
Sewer pipe
The piping used in a sewer.
Sewer trap
See building trap
Sewerage
The entire works required to collect, treat, and dispose of sewage, including the sewer system, pumping stations, and treatment plant.
Shade
The degree to which a color is mixed with black to decrease illumination, or darken it.
Shaft
(1) That portion of a column between the base and the capital. (2) An elevator well. (3) A pit dug from the ground surface to a tunnel to furnish access and ventilation. (4) Any enclosed vertical space in a building used for utilities or ventilation. (5) Any cylindrical rod connecting moving parts in a machine.
Shake
(1) Roofing or sidewall material produced from wood, usually cedar, with at least one surface having a grain split face. (2) A crack in timber due to natural causes.
Shale
A laminated and fissile sedimentary rock, the constituent particles of which are principally clay and silt.
Shank
(1) The main body of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener extending between the head and the point. (2) The usually metal part of a drill or other tool that connects the working head to the handle. (3) In a Doric frieze, a plain space between channels of a triglyph.
Shanty
A small wooden building, usually temporary and haphazardly constructed.
Shape
(1) A solid section, other than flat product, rod, or wire sections, furnished in straight lengths and usually made by extrusion; but sometimes fabricated by drawing. (2) A solid section other than regular rod, bar, plate, sheet, strip, or flat wire. It may be oval, half oval, half round, triangular, pentagonal, or of any special section');">cross section furnished in straight lengths. (3) A wrought product that is long in relation to the dimensions of its section');">cross section, which is of a form other than that of sheet, plate, rod, bar, tube, or wire. (4) To give a profile or detail to a piece of work, such as providing a board with a head or rounded edge. (5) To work on a piece of wood or other material to make it conform to a predetermined desired or required pattern, or to render from its surface a specific texture or degree of smoothness.
Sharp sand
Coarse sand made up of particles of angular shape.
Shatterproof glass
See laminated glass
Shaving
A very thin slice of wood removed in dressing, and used in some types of panels.
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