Definitions for landfill
ˈlændˌfɪlland·fill

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. landfillnoun

   a low area that has been filled in

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1. landfillnoun

   A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.

2. landfillnoun

   The material so disposed of.

3. landfillverb

   To dispose of garbage by burying it at a landfill site.

4. Etymology: land + fill

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1. Landfill

   A landfill site, also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, or dumping ground, is a site for the disposal of waste materials. Landfill is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of the waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s. In the past, refuse was simply left in piles or thrown into pits; in archeology this is known as a midden. Some landfill sites are used for waste management purposes, such as temporary storage, consolidation and transfer, or for various stages of processing waste material, such as sorting, treatment, or recycling. Unless they are stabilized, landfills may undergo severe shaking or soil liquefaction of the ground during an earthquake. Once full, the area over a landfill site may be reclaimed for other uses.

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1. Landfill

   A landfill site is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. Historically, landfills have been the most common methods of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world. Some landfills are also used for waste management purposes, such as the temporary storage, consolidation and transfer, or processing of waste material. A landfill also may refer to ground that has been filled in with rocks instead of waste materials, so that it can be used for a specific purpose, such as for building houses. Unless they are stabilized, these areas may experience severe shaking or liquefaction of the ground in a large earthquake.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of landfill in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of landfill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of landfill in a Sentence

1. Dean Dalla Valle:

   This is not about a dollar amount, this about a program to remediate, to restore and where we can't restore to compensate and also to leave some positive legacies behind, besides straight remediation, we are talking about actions like sewage, landfill, reforestation, water treatment.

2. Keith Freegard:

   We should separate and store plastic in a well-controlled landfill as a future mine.

3. Mike DeWine:

   Disposing of aborted fetuses from an abortion by sending them to a landfill is callous and completely inhumane, it is important the public be aware that these practices are taking place at these Ohio facilities.

4. Environmental Protection Administrator Greg Lovato.CNN:

   The reactive quality must be removed before going in a landfill, energy Department officials need to know what it is, how much of it there is, how it gets activated.

5. Shannon Johnstone:

   Throwing bodies into landfill after being injected with a barbiturate isn't good for the environment, my hope is that underlying that, we can figure out what to do to curb overpopulation from starting in first place.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=landfill
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Landfill
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=landfill