exhaust
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider.
Proto-Italic *auzjō
Latin hauriō
Latin exhauriō
Latin exhaustusder.
English exhaust
From Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaurīre (“to draw out, drink up, empty, exhaust”), from ex (“out”) + haurīre (“to draw (especially water), drain”).
Inflected forms:
form: exhausts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exhausting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exhausted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exhausted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: exhausts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The water was exhausted out of the well.
Moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
gloss: To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to exhaust a well
to exhaust a treasury
It takes approximately 8 to 9 minutes to exhaust the tank of air and fill it with water.
gloss: To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or use until the supply comes to an end.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
literally
transitive
examples: My grandfather seemingly never exhausts his supply of bad jokes.
to exhaust one's resources
to exhaust all possibilities
You're exhausting my patience.
I exhausted my strength walking up the hill.
gloss: To tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The marathon exhausted me.
It is a branch that climbs for 11½ miles into the picturesque Wealden hills until, apparently exhausted by the effort, it terminates a mile short of the village of Hawkhurst.
gloss: To discuss thoroughly or completely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That subject has already been exhausted.
gloss: To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether
gloss: To expel (as exhaust).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Infections can be reduced further if outside air is exhausted after a single use, rather than re-circulated.
They [the doors between two clean rooms] get connected, and then high-pressure air blasts out anything in between: all the outside atmosphere is exhausted by fresh, clean air.
gloss: To discharge or escape (as exhaust).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Steam from both high pressure cylinders exhausts through the respective receiver pipes into cylinders.
Figure 7.13e shows a 4/2 valve that normally has the pressure applied to output 4 while output 3 exhausts through the exhaust port. When activated, the pressure switches to output 3 while output 4 exhausts through the exhaust port.
gloss: A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
pos: noun
gloss: The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
pos: noun
examples: A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.
gloss: The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
pos: noun
examples: If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
gloss: An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
pos: noun
gloss: Exhaust gas.
pos: noun
Synonyms: spend
consume
tire out
weary
tucker
Related words: exhausted
exhaustible
exhausting
exhaustion
exhaustive
Derived words: data exhaust
diesel exhaust
diesel exhaust fluid
digital exhaust
exhaust draught
exhauster
exhaust fan
exhaust-free
exhaust gas
exhaustless
exhaustment
exhaust nozzle
exhaust pipe
exhaust port
exhaust purifier
exhaust steam
exhaust system
exhausture
exhaust valve
exhaust velocity
multiexhaust
nonexhaust
non-exhaust
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