The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exhaust \Ex*haust"\, a. [L. exhaustus, p. p.]
Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.
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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.
Port \Port\, n. [F. porte, L. porta, akin to portus; cf. AS. porte, fr. L. porta. See Port a harbor, and cf. Porte.]
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A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. [Archaic]
Him I accuse The city ports by this hath entered.
--Shak.Form their ivory port the cherubim Forth issuing.
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(Naut.) An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening.
Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water.
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(Mach.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.
Air port, Bridle port, etc. See under Air, Bridle, etc.
Port bar (Naut.), a bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale.
Port lid (Naut.), a lid or hanging for closing the portholes of a vessel.
Steam port, & Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the ports of the cylinder communicating with the valve or valves, for the entrance or exit of the steam, respectively.
Usage examples of "exhaust port".
The proton torpedo jammed itself right up the left engine's exhaust port and actually punched out through the cockpit before detonating.
Using the plans in Artoo's memory, they locate a weakness in the design -- a small thermal exhaust port.
Driven by the solid propellant engine just approaching full thrust, it plunged into the exhaust port of the number one engine and detonated.
A puny band of Rebels with outdated fighters found a weakness in your design--a thermal exhaust port that allowed a single X-wing pilot to strike a fatal blow.
The motors struggled for a moment, then roared into life, a column of black smoke blowing skyward from the louvered exhaust port alongside the main turret.
A bright white blast blew from the other ship, looking as if somebody had fired talcum powder out an exhaust port--but when it hit them it didn't feel like powder.
One proton torpedo might have killed a Death Star, but this thing had no shielded reactor exhaust port.
There was a belch of oily black smoke from the exhaust port in the side of the hull and then she settled to a regular beat.
It struck Riker that the asteroid-size creature seemed to be rotating, its plasma exhaust port slowly moving to point toward the planet.
The Hayuman glanced towards the brilliant light of the shuttle's exhaust port, fast disappearing over the curve of the planet.
The first is that we don't have an exhaust port to dump proton torps into.