Suction
['sʌkʃ(ə)n] or ['sʌkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a force over an area produced by a pressure difference.
(verb.) empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction; 'suction the uterus in an abortion'.
(verb.) remove or draw away by the force of suction; 'the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs'.
Checker: Shelia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
Checker: Quincy
Definition
n. act or power of sucking: act of drawing as fluids by exhausting the air.—n. Suc′tion-pump the common house-pump—not the force-pump.—adj. Suctō′rial adapted for sucking: living by sucking—also Suctō′rious.
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Examples
- The separation of the water is further assisted by suction boxes which extend across close beneath the upper run of the belt and are connected to suction pumps. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The lower view shows a suction dredge, which operates on soft mud or sands, pumping the discharge through the pipe seen at the left of the illustration. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In practice the tube is known as the suction pipe, and its valve as the suction valve. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Wery good power o' suction, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller the elder, looking into the pot, when his first-born had set it down half empty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The pump or suction dredge operates by means of a flexible pipe connected with a powerful centrifugal pump. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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