Cistern in a sentence as a noun

Needing to clean out a toilet cistern is a failure of design.

The instructions called to cut two rods inside the cistern if this happens.

The smaller the cistern the more expensive per gallon it is.

The cable tie is presumably so it doesn't shift when the cistern empties and refills when flushing.

I've seen older houses that had a way to store rainwater collected from the roof into a cistern in the basement.

That said your typical cistern can build up a lot of scale without affecting the performance of the toilet.

It lacked warm water for starters so it is a fairly casual hand wash and the water only ran while the cistern was refilling.

I used a water saving toilet in a holiday shack with a handbasin on the top which drained into the cistern below so the water got reused.

I think Google uses a technique that could be put in this setup: heat the water in the toilet cistern, flushing disposes the collected energy.

California already has a massive system of rain water capture and extra-large cisterns we call reservoirs.

As a general rule, such people are what is technically known in the industry as "nice", meaning they are unlikely to smash your toilet cistern while in a meth-induced frenzy.

Since clay is good enough for the cisterns, what's the advantage of using lead for those pipes?Since each individual detail is not trustworthy, I find it hard to put any faith in the overall account.

Usually, when I read a comment like this, I click through the profile looking for other terrible comments to flag, and usually when I do that, I end up wading through a cistern of **** and malevolence.

I think this find greatly weakens the hypothesis that fog collection was necessary in order for a group of up to 2,000 people, and that they could have survived on the limited springs and cistern storage of rain water.

Some projects I'm working on this summer include a biodigester to supplement my propane for cooking gas, a rocket mass heater to eliminate my propane, a backyard blacksmiths area, drip irrigation and cistern system, and more fencing for livestock.

Last but not least, my great grandfather told me that in July of 44, an american bomb exploded near our house, in the rear field, and a shapnel fragment broke a hole in the back courtyard door, raced across the yard, barely missing my mother's head by 20cm, then crashed into the water cistern.

Debris and other issues can cause the mechanism to fail to close, meaning water continually flows from the cistern and into the bowl.>> Older cisterns tend to use a siphon system, which works by pushing water upwards until it reaches a point at which it can flow into the bowl.

Cistern definitions

noun

a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid

See also: cisterna

noun

a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet

noun

an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater