Consume vs E - What's the difference?
consume | e |
To use.
To eat.
To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
To destroy completely.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew vi. 20
(obsolete) To waste away slowly.
* Shakespeare
* 1899 , Kate Chopin, The Awakening :
The fifth letter of the .
(label) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459
Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
close-mid front unrounded vowel
(l)
(label) electron
Image:Latin E.png, Capital and lowercase versions of E , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter E.png, Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur
Image:Uncial e.png, Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e
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As a verb consume
is .As a letter e is
the letter e with a circumflex.consume
English
Verb
(consum)- The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
- Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
- Desire consumed him.
- The building was consumed by fire.
- If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.
- Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume .
- Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.
- He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.
Synonyms
* (use) burn (of energy ), use, use up * (eat) devour, eat, swallow * (occupy) occupy, overcome, take over * (destroy) annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze (of a building ), wipe outDerived terms
* consumere
Translingual
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See also
(Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * SeeSymbol
(Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)- 1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10-6
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