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Suction   /sˈəkʃən/   Listen
Suction

noun
1.
A force over an area produced by a pressure difference.
2.
The act of sucking.  Synonyms: suck, sucking.
verb
1.
Remove or draw away by the force of suction.
2.
Empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction.



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"Suction" Quotes from Famous Books



... various stages of its existence, bound in a seaman-like manner with pieces of tarred yarn. He slowly filled this object, and proceeded to inform it in a husky voice that he was "blowed." The pipe was, apparently, in a similar condition, as it refused absolutely to answer to the powerful suction applied to it. ...
— The Slave Of The Lamp • Henry Seton Merriman

... clear to the knees in a weaving, shifting mass. It circled his imprisoned limbs like great moving ropes, pulling him downward with a suction ...
— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood

... the workers in brass, a few years ago, could not be kept alive more than two years because they breathed brass filings. When —— installed, at great expense, suction machines to place beside the men to keep them from breathing brass, some one said, "Well surely you will admit this time, ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee

... homestead in all heavens, but to the moral power which we ache to exercise. To-day I am a poor starveling of Nature, sucking many a dry straw, but so sure as God I shall stream like the sun. The meanest creature is a promise of such power, for in each is some radiation as well as suction. Man grows, indeed, faster than he can be filled, and so is forever empty; but if power is never a plenum, it is never drawn dry, and at least the mantling foam of it fills the cup. Our expectation is that bead on the draught of being, and boils ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864 • Various

... voyage. The science of thermodynamics has been brought to as great perfection as possible. Not alone is the heating thoroughly up to modern science requirements but the ventilation as well, by means of thermo tanks, suction valves and exhaust fans. All foul air is expelled and fresh currents sent through all ...
— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing


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