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Scavenger — (engl. Aasfresser) ist: Eine ehemalige schwedische Metalband, siehe The Arcane Order Alkylhalogenide wie 1,2 Dibromethan oder 1,2 Dichlorethan, die Bleiablagerungen im Motor (bei Verwendung verbleiten Benzins) verhindern Triazine zum Entfernen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Scavenger — Scav en*ger, n. [OE. scavager an officer with various duties, originally attending to scavage, fr. OE. & E. scavage. See {Scavage}, {Show}, v.] A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
scavenger — (n.) originally person hired to remove refuse from streets, from M.E. scawageour (late 14c.), London official in charge of collecting tax on goods sold by foreign merchants, from Anglo Fr. scawager, from scawage toll or duty on goods offered for… … Etymology dictionary
Scavenger — [ skævɪndʒə; englisch, eigentlich »Aasfresser«] der, (s)/ , Antiklopfmittel … Universal-Lexikon
scavenger — ► NOUN 1) a person or animal that scavenges. 2) Chemistry a substance that combines with and removes particular molecules, radicals, etc. ORIGIN originally denoting an official who collected scavage, a toll on foreign merchants goods, later a… … English terms dictionary
scavenger — [skav′in jər] n. [ME scavager < Anglo Fr scawage, inspection < NormFr escauwer, to inspect < Fl scawen or Frank scouwon, to peer at, observe, akin to OE sceawian, SHOW] 1. a person who gathers things that have been discarded by others,… … English World dictionary
Scavenger — For a person who scavenges, see Waste picker. For other uses, see Scavenger (disambiguation). Sarcophaga nodosa, a species of flesh fly feeding on decaying meat Scavenging is both a carnivorous and herbivorous feeding behavior in which individual … Wikipedia
scavenger — [15] A scavenger was originally a scavager – the extra n is the same as that intruded into messenger, passenger, etc. This was acquired from Anglo Norman scawager, and it started life as a term for an official whose job was to collect taxes… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
scavenger — [15] A scavenger was originally a scavager – the extra n is the same as that intruded into messenger, passenger, etc. This was acquired from Anglo Norman scawager, and it started life as a term for an official whose job was to collect taxes… … Word origins
Scavenger — Récupération informelle des déchets Pour les articles homonymes, voir Récupération des déchets et Chiffonnier. Ramasseurs de déchets dans un bidonvill … Wikipédia en Français
Scavenger 4 — Novastorm Novastorm Éditeur Psygnosis Développeur Psygnosis Date de sortie 1994 PlayStation 13 octobre 1995 (Europe)[1] … Wikipédia en Français
