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exhaust 1. gases ejected from an engine as waste products 2. a. the expulsion of expanded gas or steam from an engine b. (as modifier): exhaust stroke 3. a. the parts of an engine through which the exhausted gases or steam pass b. (as modifier): exhaust valve exhaust [ig′zȯst] (mechanical engineering) The working substance discharged from an engine cylinder or turbine after performing work on the moving parts of the machine. The phase of the engine cycle concerned with this discharge. A duct for the escape of gases, fumes, and odors from an enclosure, sometimes equipped with an arrangement of fans. (science and technology) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. The tortoise--as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience--besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food; nor can the learned reader be ignorant, that in human nature, though here collected under one general name, is such prodigious variety, that a cook will have sooner gone through all the several species of animal and vegetable food in the world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject. |
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