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Перевод: scavenging

[существительное]
продувка цилиндров; очистка ; выпуск ; выхлоп

Тезаурус:

1. Scavenging
2. Dark brown horses roamed freely, nosing round the caravans and grazing midst the rubbish, like black bears scavenging around National Park campsites in America.
3. The EUROMET project, with a budget of 400,000 ecus (480,000), has been given the job of building an EC meteorite mountain, and teams of hardy Euro-researchers are already out scavenging.
4. The contamination of land and water by such substances constitutes a pollution hazard that could be reduced by scavenging mechanisms which could provide a means of recycling these substances for industrial and agricultural use.
5. Incineration, for example, can effectively reduce the volume of rubbish but still leaves the problem of non-combustible material; covering with rocks is not an ideal solution because the rubbish may be uncovered by scavenging yaks, herders and climbers; incarceration in glacier crevasses is not recommended because it is likely that the rubbish will ultimately reappear.
6. Urban foxes are used to scavenging; they'd probably starve in the countryside."
7. The scavenging activities of soil microbes are of great importance to human welfare, but Waksman's studies were not orientated to medical applications.
8. This is not altogether surprising considering the factors militating against their preservation - break-up of skeletons after death, the necessity to have a skeleton incorporated with sediment, and the activities of predatory and scavenging animals to destroy remains.
9. Caracaras are smaller scavenging raptors from Central and South America.
10. Needless to say, this gives rise to considerable confusion, for it is not possible to distinguish the results of scavenging from predation on the bone modifications alone.
11. The white cells from the blood, the polymorphonuclear leucocytes or "pus cells", which are responsible for scavenging and consuming unwelcome intruders in the body, can be seen to have phagocytosed, or eaten, the bacteria, which thus become "intracellular".
12. Virtually all creatures, though, are capable of scavenging rare materials from the environment and accumulating them effectively by "mistake".
13. Esna, a series of dusty streets and alleys, is still asleep, apart from the odd scavenging tat-eared dog.