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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exhaust
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exhausted sleep (=because you were very tired)
▪ He finally woke from an exhausted sleep.
exhaust sb's patience (=make someone lose patience)
▪ He turned away from me, as if I had exhausted his patience.
exhaust the possibilities (=try everything possible)
▪ I was determined not to give up until I had exhausted all the possibilities.
physically exhausted
▪ We were mentally and physically exhausted.
use up/exhaust a supply
▪ The diver had nearly used up his supply of oxygen.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
appeal
▪ The two Red Army leaders have now exhausted all avenues of appeal.
▪ It takes between 10 and 15 years to exhaust all appeals, and lack of defense attorneys can mean a two-year delay.
▪ His lawyers had exhausted appeals in the state courts, but Kirkpatrick had not filed for a stay in the federal system.
▪ The appeal would have to be filed within a year of exhausting state court appeals.
possibility
▪ Early weaning is only recommended if the baby is suffering quite badly and you have exhausted all other possibilities.
▪ Having exhausted all these possibilities, the ordering and challenging might become explicit.
▪ Have we therefore exhausted all possibilities of being clearer as to what we are talking about?
reserve
▪ When it has exhausted its reserves, it collapses suddenly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It exhausted him to talk for too long, but he loved hearing all the theater gossip.
▪ Over-intensive farming had exhausted the supply of nutrients in the soil.
▪ The effort of swimming against the current exhausted him.
▪ The organization has exhausted all its funds.
▪ The trip totally exhausted us.
▪ We are in danger of exhausting the world's oil supply.
▪ What will happen when we have exhausted all our natural resources?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As support funds are exhausted, more funds are deployed in protecting positions against the currency.
▪ Sooner or later most workers will be wired, and another moderator of inflation will then have been exhausted also.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ They are expected to halve pollution caused by large commercial vehicles, bringing them into line with regulations governing car exhaust emissions.
▪ Consider one example from the annals of air pollution: the effort to reduce the effects of car exhaust on the atmosphere.
▪ The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church.
▪ Puffs of hardened car exhaust linger in the air on busy streets.
▪ He said he only wanted to kill himself and claimed he ate rat poison and planned to inhale car exhaust fumes.
▪ It also makes car exhausts, ships and submarines.
▪ Benzene is found in petrol vapours and car exhaust fumes.
▪ Some scientists are concerned about long-term exposure to low levels of manganese oxides from car exhaust fumes.
emission
▪ They called for high power and torque, low smoke and exhaust emission levels, quiet, and good fuel economy.
▪ They are expected to halve pollution caused by large commercial vehicles, bringing them into line with regulations governing car exhaust emissions.
▪ It's also much quieter and even better behaved, by that we mean it burns cleaner with less exhaust emissions.
▪ It could only be concluded that the cause of the intense eye irritation was in some way related to vehicle exhaust emissions.
▪ This 1960 Act required the Surgeon General to undertake studies of the health effects of motor vehicle exhaust emissions.
▪ The exhaust emissions standards could only be met with current technology by installing three-way catalytic converters in petrol-driven vehicles.
▪ Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins, in particular lead.
▪ From Los Angeles to Athens, city authorities have tried to enact measures to limit exhaust emissions.
fumes
▪ Trailed by a cloud of exhaust fumes, he accelerated up the road.
▪ Some scientists are concerned about long-term exposure to low levels of manganese oxides from car exhaust fumes.
▪ The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church.
▪ The exhaust fumes from the cars and buses pour in through the open windows of our bus.
▪ The combination of early breakfast, exhaust fumes and nerves is a potent cocktail!
▪ He said he only wanted to kill himself and claimed he ate rat poison and planned to inhale car exhaust fumes.
▪ The so-called hybrid bus is virtually silent and produces fewer exhaust fumes.
▪ As his engines speeded up on the runway, a little flap would open on the ground to catch the exhaust fumes.
gas
▪ The exhaust gas is mixed with a little air from a small pump at a point just before it enters the canister.
▪ The column of burning exhaust gas strikes the ground and seems to spread out in all directions.
▪ The haze in the hangar was exhaust gas expelled during docking.
▪ The Tipo has a three-way catalytic converter and exhaust gas recirculation valve.
▪ A large exhaust gas pressure implies that there is not much flow to the gas.
gases
▪ Approximately 100,000 cars clog the narrow streets each day and exhaust gases are eroding the city's ancient monuments.
▪ Carbon dioxide, a principal ingredient of the exhaust gases made during combustion of hydrocarbons, has a molecular weight of 44.
▪ Furthermore, the exhaust gases have trouble exiting the engine bell in a smooth and linear flow.
▪ It comes from the action of sunlight on vehicle exhaust gases.
▪ This will eliminate virtually all harmful exhaust gases, except for the emission of CO2.
pipe
▪ Soon he switches his grip to the exhaust pipe, which starts coming away.
▪ She can transform oil drums, exhaust pipes and car wheels into fine musical instruments.
▪ A hosepipe was attached to the exhaust pipe leading into the interior of the van and the engine was still running.
▪ It may have been the way the exhaust pipe stained his boiler suit.
▪ An exhaust pipe for a car will fall into this exception.
▪ Brundle's trouble had been caused by a split exhaust pipe which overheated a shock absorber.
▪ Mechanics pushed our aircraft into a hangar and machined us a new stud for our exhaust pipe.
system
▪ It is thought he may have suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a faulty exhaust system.
▪ The clutch has also been strengthened and a full Force exhaust system in titanium is added.
▪ It's bolted to a purpose-made exhaust system and pumps air to the engine though a custom-built intercooler.
▪ Just use the S3 engine mounts and clutch plate and modified 110 exhaust system.
▪ The engine cases are now magnesium, as are the yokes, while the entire race-only exhaust system is titanium.
▪ And it has decided to make its own exhaust systems from now on.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And 86 to 90 percent comes from vehicle exhaust, evenly divided between diesel and gasoline engines.
▪ But recent work has revealed that adenosine is much more than mere cellular exhaust.
▪ Consider one example from the annals of air pollution: the effort to reduce the effects of car exhaust on the atmosphere.
▪ Divorced father-of-three Terry Liffen was found dead in his car with a hose pipe leading from the exhaust.
▪ It turned out to be only bus exhaust.
▪ The clutch has also been strengthened and a full Force exhaust system in titanium is added.
▪ This is detected with a special sensor in the exhaust manifold.
▪ Trailed by a cloud of exhaust fumes, he accelerated up the road.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exhaust

Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, n. (Steam Engine)

  1. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

  2. The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

Exhaust

Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhausted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhausting.] [L. exhaustus, p. p. of exhaurire; ex out + haurire, haustum, to draw, esp. water; perhaps akin to Icel. asua to sprinkle, pump.]

  1. 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.

  2. To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.

  3. 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.

    A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five.
    --Motley.

  4. To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.

  5. (Chem.) 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.

    Exhausted receiver. (Physics) See under Receiver.

    Syn: To spend; consume; tire out; weary.

Exhaust

Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, a. [L. exhaustus, p. p.]

  1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

  2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.

    Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through.

    Exhaust fan, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it.

    Exhaust nozzle, Exhaust orifice (Steam Engine), the blast orifice or nozzle.

    Exhaust pipe (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser.

    Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes.

    Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught.
    --Knight.

    Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston.

    Exhaust valve (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exhaust

1530s, "to draw off or out, to use up completely," from Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaurire "draw off, take away, use up, empty," from ex- "off" (see ex-) + haurire "to draw up" (as water), from PIE *aus- (3) "to draw water." Meaning "make weak or helpless, as by fatigue" is from 1630s. Related: Exhausted; exhausting.

exhaust

"waste gas," 1848, originally from steam engines, from exhaust (v.). In reference to internal combustion engines by 1896. Exhaust pipe is from 1889.

Wiktionary
exhaust

  1. (context obsolete English) Exhausted; used up. n. 1 A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system. 2 The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there. 3 The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose. v

  2. 1 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. 2 To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury. 3 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. 4 To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject. 5 (context chemistry English) 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.

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WordNet
exhaust

  1. n. gases ejected from an engine as waste products [syn: exhaust fumes, fumes]

  2. system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged [syn: exhaust system]

exhaust

  1. v. wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" [syn: wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out]

  2. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, run through, wipe out]

  3. deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" [syn: run down, play out, sap, tire]

  4. use up the whole supply of; "We have exhausted the food supplies"

  5. create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel, etc.) [syn: evacuate]

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Wikipedia
Exhaust

Exhaust or exhaustion may refer to:

Exhaust (band)

Exhaust is a trio from Montreal featuring bass, drums, tape and bass clarinet, that started in the mid-1990s. The members are Aidan Girt (drums), Gordon Krieger (bass/ bass clarinet) and Mike Zabitsky (tape loops). Their first release was the limited release cassette 230596. Their debut LP (later reissued on CD) was one of the first releases on the then-fledgling Constellation Records label. A second album, Enregistreur, was released in 2002. A third album Grenadilla Splinters was released December 2011.

Exhaust (album)

Exhaust is an album by Montreal based band Exhaust. It was released in 1998 on Constellation Records.

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Usage examples of "exhaust".

The valley wanted to get everything to market in one generation, indifferent to the fate of those who should come after-the passes through the mountains being choked by cars carrying to the coasts crops from increasing acreage of declining productivity or the products of swiftly disappearing forests or the output of mines that must soon be exhausted.

She might have struck her skin alight, her favorite trick spell, but she was too addled and exhausted.

The second hit the fuselage aft of the jet exhaust, cutting the aircraft in half.

Too exhausted and miserable to attempt idle conversation, Alec pressed into his corner without reply.

Chinese and Tibet and the mountain, finally dropping into an exhausted silence as alpenglow lit Everest orange.

He sniffed the air, the scent a mixture of diesel oil and diesel exhaust from the emergency generator, ozone from the electrical equipment, cooking oil, lubricating oils, and amines from the atmospheric control equipment.

Some kind of dire temperature inversion had clamped itself down over the city like a bell jar, trapping and concentrating the cocktail of dust, automobile exhaust, coal smoke, woodsmoke, manure smoke, and the ammoniated gasses that rose up from the stewn excreta of millions of people and animals.

When she had exhausted her amorous fury she threw herself into a bath, then came back, drank a bottle of Malmsey Madeira, and finally made her brutal lover drink till he fell on to the floor.

Perhaps the imagination of this earlier Ancred was exhausted by the begetting of his monster, for he was content to leave, almost unmolested, the terraced gardens and well-planted spinneys that had been laid out in the tradition of John Evelyn.

While Angekok had often slept, exhausted from his satanic ecstasies, I had explored this cavern and now it was my fervent hope that an underground stream might bear me from this fate.

Its waste is a wanton expenditure, which robs the blood of its richness and exhausts the body of its animating powers.

They show that sin and woe are not arbitrarily bounded by the limits of time and sense in the grave, and that nothing can ever exhaust or destroy the satisfaction of true life, faith in the love of God: it abides, blessed and eternal, in the uninterrupted blessedness and eternity of its Object.

A cheaper method, that of cramming victims into trucks and killing them with engine exhaust, was judged unsatisfactory because not enough victims could be asphyxiated at one time.

Marcus could see Azar was exhausted, for as she gathered the clothes, her limp was more pronounced.

For Bazil it was an exhausting ordeal, and his energy reserves were already low.