Consumption
[kən'sʌm(p)ʃ(ə)n] or [kən'sʌmpʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of consuming something.
(noun.) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating).
(noun.) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; 'the consumption of energy has increased steadily'.
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Definition
(n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
(n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
(n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Extinction, destruction, waste, expenditure.[2]. Phthisis, marasmus, atrophy, decline, tabes, gradual wasting, progressive emaciation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Decline, decay, expenditure, waste, decrement, lessening, decrease
ANT:Growth, development, enlargement, augmentation
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Definition
n. the act of using up or consuming—the converse of production—also Consumpt′; pulmonary consumption a more or less rapidly advancing process of lung destruction with progressive emaciation—phthisis tuberculosis.—adj. Consump′tive wasting away: inclined to the disease consumption.—adv. Consump′tively.—ns. Consump′tiveness a tendency to consumption; Consumptiv′ity.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you have consumption, denotes that you are exposing yourself to danger. Remain with your friends.
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Examples
- The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. Plato. The Republic.
- The ideas and methods of Murdoch and Lebon soon took definite shape, and coal smoke was piped from its place of origin to distant points of consumption. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But this great consumption is almost entirely supplied by France, Flanders, Holland, and Germany. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If it is employed in procuring present enjoyment, it is a stock reserved for immediate consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their consumption must increase as their mass increases, or rather in a much greater proportion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Finally, the fuel consumption is reduced, which in the case of the Eastern plants, with their relatively costly coke, is a very important consideration. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Watt saw that the alternate heating and cooling of the cylinder made the engine work slowly and caused an excessive consumption of steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The contractions and expansions set in motion the clockwork which marks the rate of consumption. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The actual average consumption of a steam engine is, however, 4 lbs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The first is that portion which is reserved for immediate consumption, and of which the characteristic is, that it affords no revenue or profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He estimated the consumption of fuel by a theoretically perfect air engine on Mr. Stirling's principle at 0·37 lbs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In tea and distilled spirits there has been a decrease, while the consumption of wines is the smallest of all and has varied but little. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The ratio of yield to consumption is the expression of the efficiency of the machine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are more used, and less cared for, and their consumption consequently increases in a greater proportion than their mass. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The increasing consumptions of East India goods in Europe is, it seems, so great, as to afford a gradual increase of employment to them all. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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