Exhaust
[ɪg'zɔːst;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɔst]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged.
(noun.) gases ejected from an engine as waste products.
(verb.) wear out completely; 'This kind of work exhausts me'; 'I'm beat'; 'He was all washed up after the exam'.
(verb.) eliminate (a substance); 'combustion products are exhausted in the engine'; 'the plant releases a gas'.
(verb.) use up the whole supply of; 'We have exhausted the food supplies'.
錄入:莫伊拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
(v. t.) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
(v. t.) To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
(v. t.) To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
(v. t.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.
(a.) Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.
(a.) Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.
(n.) The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
(n.) The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
贝妮塔整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Drain, empty.[2]. Expend, spend, waste, squander, consume, destroy, lavish, dissipate, fritter away, run out.[3]. Prostrate, cripple, weaken, enervate, debilitate, disable, deprive of strength, wear out.
整理:普雷斯利
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Empty, spend, consume, debilitate, waste, void, drain, weaken, weary
ANT:Fill, replenish, augment, invigorate, refresh
亨廷顿編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to draw out the whole of: to use the whole strength of: to wear or tire out: to treat of or develop completely.—n. the exit of steam from the cylinder when it has done its work in propelling the piston—escaping by the exhaust-pipe and regulated by the exhaust-valve.—p.adj. Exhaust′ed drawn out: emptied: consumed: tired out.—n. Exhaust′er he who or that which exhausts.—adj. Exhaust′ible that may be exhausted.—n. Exhaust′ion act of exhausting or consuming: state of being exhausted: extreme fatigue.—adjs. Exhaust′ive tending to exhaust; Exhaust′less that cannot be exhausted.
手打:南希
例句/造句/用法:
- The boiler was tubular, and the exhaust steam was carried into the chimney by a pipe in front of the smoke stack as shown. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is a poor form of social service that would exhaust the resources of science and philanthropy to care for the former without making any special provision fo r the latter. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The exhaust valve is then closed, the inlet valve opened, and another cycle of four strokes begins. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In many cases the combined use of both exhaust and compression pumps is necessary to secure the desired result; as, for example, in pneumatic dispatch tubes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He whispered to the General to put his hand on the frame of the motor, watch the exhaust, and note the coincident tremor. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But methods remain the personal concern, approach, and attack of an individual, and no catalogue can ever exhaust their diversity of form and tint. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Plants need other foods besides nitrogen, and they exhaust the soil not only of nitrogen, but also of phosphorus and potash, since large quantities of these are necessary for plant life. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The sign Bell out of order is usually due to the fact that the battery is either temporarily or permanently exhausted. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Being dressed, I went down; not travel-worn and exhausted, but tidy and refreshed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Mine, I confess, are exhausted. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The system of labor would have soon exhausted the soil and left the people poor. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Having a ready-made existence on their own account, their relation to mind is exhausted in what they furnish it to acquire. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Das war ausgezeichnet, das war famos--' 'Wirklich famos,' echoed his exhausted daughters, faintly. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- My beloved, so he wrote to me at last, my spirits and health fail me; they are worn out and exhausted, with this close confinement. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It was an hour of exhausting work. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- By compressing or exhausting air through this tube it is obvious that the lever, N, will be raised or depressed, and the clockwork set going accordingly. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I had a series of vacuum-pumps worked by mercury and used for exhausting experimental incandescent lamps. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Though warm-hearted and sympathetic, she was not nervous; powerful emotions could rouse and sway without exhausting her spirit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The antiseptic treatment of wounds, by which the long and exhausting suppuration is avoided, is among the most notable of the latter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They went on to exhausting conflicts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Enormous Demand for Cork Exhausting the Supply. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- An electric blower exhausts all of the moisture from the air. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- If I had only myself to think of, I should prefer the sharp pains to the frightful dreaMs. But the physical suffering exhausts me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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