(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
(v. t.) 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.
(a.) Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.
(a.) Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.
(n.) The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
(n.) The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(2) The use of functional test with the ACTH administration demonstrated organic affection of the CNS to sharply aggravate the weakening and even the exhaustion of the functional reserves of the glomerular and the reticular zones of the adrenal cortex developing during thyrotoxicosis, and also the reserve possibilities of the sympathico-adrenal system.
(3) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(4) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
(5) 9 Women performed plantarflexion and dorsalflexion with maximum strength and at constant load of 60% MVC to exhaustion.
(6) The results suggest that, in PMA-stimulated neutrophils, cytosolic activation factors may be consumed or exhausted with an increasing period of time after the stimulation of neutrophils, and that the affinity of PMA-stimulated neutrophil NADPH oxidase to NADPH may almost be the same as that of control neutrophil oxidase.
(7) During heavy exercise at 65-75% of VO2 max, time till exhaustion correlates with the pre-exercise muscle glycogen concentration and exhaustion coincides with empty glycogen stores.
(8) Glycogen content of the rabbit vastus lateralis muscle was also significantly depleted after exhaustive, intermittent exercise.
(9) Currently, entitlement to CTC for families with one to three children is fully exhausted when gross household earnings reach about £26,000 and £40,000 a year respectively.
(10) Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO and 15 other strains of this species synthesized a polyester with 3-hydroxydecanoate as the main constituent (55 to 76 mol%) if the cells were cultivated in the presence of gluconate and if the nitrogen source was exhausted; 3-hydroxyhexanoate, 3-hydroxyoctanoate, and 3-hydroxydodecanoate were minor constituents of the polymer.
(11) It is concluded that acute intravenous injections of AVT augment the LH-releasing activity of LRH; chronic treatment for 48 h, however, with LRH + AVT leads to a significant depression of plasma LH perhaps due to an exhaustion of the releasable pool of LH in the anterior pituitary.
(12) On exhaustion of NADH, with residual oxygen, decay occurs in two phases to give a form in which haem b and flavin are oxidized.
(13) Their lipid metabolism did not seem to be affected at least partially by NO3- exhaustion.
(14) She was so exhausted from her trip to London she said she might stay there for 48 hours.
(15) Are we moving from a culture where MPs stayed in parliament until booted out, to one where many do five years and move on, frustrated and exhausted?
(16) The effect of various fuel additives on the ability of platinum-palladium catalytic converters to remove the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon components of automotive exhaust has been examined.
(17) Regional functional recovery following 2-minute CO was examined under two different conditions in eight dogs: patent coronary artery stenosis and fixed CSS that exhausted coronary reserve but did not cause a deficit in resting coronary flow or regional function.
(18) The reduction in the mechanical clearance in adult humans caused by exposure to high concentrations of diesel exhaust was found to be much less than that observed in rats.
(19) A timed sprint to exhaustion was performed after 45 min of exercise at 70% of VO2max, and a Wingate anaerobic test was used to measure total work and peak power.
(20) Oxygenator exhaust capnographic measurements systematically underestimated PaCO2 measured by a bench blood gas analyzer.
Turbocharger
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) By allowing corporates to make unlimited donations of this kind, the court gave birth to the so-called Super Pacs, which are turbocharged fundraising " political action committees " that support a candidate while remaining nominally independent of his or her campaign.
(2) There's been a turbocharged masculinity at the heart of British newspaper culture for decades.
(3) Whoever comes next will have to take this on in a very significant way.” A game-changer would be if the leader of a developed country came out firmly against prohibition, something that would turbocharge the drive for reform.
(4) The reason they fought so hard to move from Upton Park after 112 years was because they believe it will turbocharge their prospects.
(5) In IT planned obsolescence has been turbocharged by must-have software which is only upwardly compatible.
(6) Cohen’s recommendations show how to take that appeal and turbocharge it.
(7) Prime minister David Cameron said on Monday that an EU-US pact would "turbocharge the transatlantic economy" by delivering up to £10bn a year to the UK, or £380 to every British household.
(8) Football, the great and simple game played by clubs with working-class roots and deep local attachments, has been turbocharged by pay-TV into a globally expanding and increasingly consumerist sport, viewed by many of those who now work in it as a branch of the entertainment industry.
(9) The successful candidate will be expected to turbocharge not just the city but an entire region.
(10) I dip the stick in a glass of Cobra, the vibrations turbocharge its carbonation, and within two seconds I have Brad Pitt, ie a perfect head.
(11) The fact of the matter is that it’s not like [1999] or 2000, where we had a major budget surplus which allowed us to turbocharge income tax cuts as we were making a major tax mix switch,” he told the ABC’s Insiders program.
(12) Greg Clark from the Conservatives and Andrew Adonis from Labour are both doing some good thinking about how to turbocharge urban centres.
(13) The company halted sales of the diesel turbocharged direct injection (TDI) models affected after the scandal broke.
(14) It was this fight for freedom that directly led to a turbocharging of the decolonisation movement across Asia and Africa.
(15) Photograph: Tom Phillips for the Guardian Rosa is the latest addition to China’s rapidly growing squad of Brazilian footballers – a group Chinese managers hope will turbocharge their clubs’ rise to glory and boost President Xi Jinping’s bid to transform his country into a footballing superpower.
(16) Joining up with Salazar, and splitting with his long-time coach Alan Storey, in 2011 turbocharged an already impressive career.
(17) By chastising his colleagues and suggesting gender may be motivating their attacks Abbott has only turbocharged that resentment and the public discussion of the government’s disunity.
(18) For a long time, Sarah Lucas, who also has a show on in the capital, seemed like the bad girl of British sculpture, although her career was never turbocharged by market success like Altmejd's was.