pollution

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.

   “Pollution levels are almost always higher in cities rather than the countryside, what with the cars, industry and so on.”

2. isim Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
3. isim The desecration of something holy or sacred; defilement, profanation.

   “Men who attend the Altar, and should most / Endevor Peace: thir strife pollution brings / Upon the Temple it self […].”

4. isim The ejaculation of semen outside of sexual intercourse, especially a nocturnal emission.

   “According to Billuart and other theologians, pollution in sleep is not sin, unless voluntarily caused; if, however, it begins in sleep, and is completed in the half-waking state, with a sense of pleasure, it is a venial sin.”

5. isim Moral or spiritual corruption; impurity, degradation, defilement.

   “She condescended to wait on them at Pemberley, in spite of that pollution which its woods had received.”