English Dictionary

pollution

IPA（発音記号）

/pəˈl(j)uːʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古語

Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc. / Something that pollutes; a pollutant.

日本語の意味

有害な物質や騒音、光などによる環境や物体の汚染（物理的な汚染） / 何かが汚染を引き起こす原因となるもの、またはその状態

The city's pollution levels rose after the factory expanded production.

工場が生産を拡大した後、市の環境汚染の程度が高まった。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

Something that pollutes; a pollutant.

意味（3）

(now rare) 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 […].

意味（4）

(now archaic) The ejaculation of semen outside of sexual intercourse, especially a nocturnal emission.

When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution or Masturbation (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.

意味（5）

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.

pollutions （ plural ）