Exhaust
[ɪg'zɔːst;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɔst]
Definition
(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'.
Typist: Moira--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Checker: Presley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Empty, spend, consume, debilitate, waste, void, drain, weaken, weary
ANT:Fill, replenish, augment, invigorate, refresh
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Definition
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.
Editor: Nancy
Examples
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The exhaust valve is then closed, the inlet valve opened, and another cycle of four strokes begins. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He whispered to the General to put his hand on the frame of the motor, watch the exhaust, and note the coincident tremor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But methods remain the personal concern, approach, and attack of an individual, and no catalogue can ever exhaust their diversity of form and tint. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The sign Bell out of order is usually due to the fact that the battery is either temporarily or permanently exhausted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Being dressed, I went down; not travel-worn and exhausted, but tidy and refreshed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mine, I confess, are exhausted. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The system of labor would have soon exhausted the soil and left the people poor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Having a ready-made existence on their own account, their relation to mind is exhausted in what they furnish it to acquire. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Das war ausgezeichnet, das war famos--' 'Wirklich famos,' echoed his exhausted daughters, faintly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- 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. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It was an hour of exhausting work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- 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. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I had a series of vacuum-pumps worked by mercury and used for exhausting experimental incandescent lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Though warm-hearted and sympathetic, she was not nervous; powerful emotions could rouse and sway without exhausting her spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The antiseptic treatment of wounds, by which the long and exhausting suppuration is avoided, is among the most notable of the latter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They went on to exhausting conflicts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Enormous Demand for Cork Exhausting the Supply. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- An electric blower exhausts all of the moisture from the air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If I had only myself to think of, I should prefer the sharp pains to the frightful dreaMs. But the physical suffering exhausts me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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