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Pump's drawing force
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suction
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. remove or draw away by the force of suction; "the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs" empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction; "suction the uterus in an abortion"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "act or process of sucking," from Late Latin suctionem (nominative suctio ), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin sugere "to suck" (see sup (v.2)). As "action produced by a vacuum" from 1650s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suction \Suc"tion\, n. [L. sugere, suctum, to suck; cf. OF. suction. See Suck , v. t.] The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. Suction chamber , the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers. Suction ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Suction is the third studio album by noise rock band Feedtime , released in 1989 by Rough Trade Records .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the suction of the vacuum cleaner EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her reclining wheelchair, a chest respirator, and a small end table for her suction machine stood by. ▪ Just to be safe, he carries a suction device to draw the ...
Usage examples of suction.
He brought out and raised a section of ladder that looked too frail to hold anybody but had humongous suction cups on it and came out of a kind of black suctioned base.
But while Marchand pressed back against the wall, fighting the suction threatening to pull him loose, Eduard rode the front of the subway train away from him, hurtling from the tunnel and back out into the night.
She could hear the sound of her pussy suctioning him back in with every outstroke, could smell the scent of her own arousal.
The sound of her wet flesh suctioning him back in on every outstroke aroused her just as it always did.
The scene suggested wholesale horror and confusion, men diving from the decks and trying to outswim burning oil or the suction of a great ship going under and overcrowded lifeboats circled by sharks.
Theatre and were now lying, surrounded by postoperative equipment--drainage tubes, suction pumps and the like--fighting, albeit unconsciously, for their lives, unaware that the nurses were fighting even harder.
The women on board had all undergone a little cellular reprofiling procedure to make suction tube use more convenient and less prone to slippage.
They fell simultaneously with a thud that jarred the bathyscaphe, sending up a dark spreading cloud of black viscous-looking mud: for two moments of eternity nothing happened, the bolt was shot, the last hope was gone, when, all in a second, the scaphe trembled, broke suction aft and started to rise.
A man was there, struggling to free himself from the suction beneath the Strid, swept down, doubtless, but a moment before his arrival, perhaps as he stood with his back to the current.
She started the truck, put on her seatbelt, pulled the GPS out of her backpack, unfolded the little suction cup thingy and slapped it on the windshield.
They come equipped with a scalpel, suction pump, and tourniquet, you know.
The thin webs on its feet must each have been three feet across, and there must have been some kind of valvular action to break the suction created as its weight came on each pad in turn.
Juniper Suction is all about how Barleycorn kidnapped some young girl called Persephone, okay?
Heather quietly entered an exclusive West Hollywood surgical clinic and underwent a breast augmentation, a blepharoplasty, a rhinoplasty, a complete rhytidectomy, a chin implant, and suction lipectomies of the thighs, abdomen, and buttocks.
LPNs can give tube feedings, suction patients, do sterile dressings and colostomy care, monitor IVs, and initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, although in such an emergency an LPN is expected to call someone else to follow through.