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Efflux vs Gush - What's the difference?

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Efflux is a related term of gush.


As nouns the difference between efflux and gush

is that efflux is the process of flowing out while gush is a sudden rapid outflow.

As verbs the difference between efflux and gush

is that efflux is to run out while gush is to flow forth suddenly, in great volume.

efflux

English

Noun

(es)
  • The process of flowing out.
    • We all age through the efflux of time.
    The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
  • * 1832 , Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening , page 398,
    • It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux .
  • * 1988 , Elizabeth Sagey, Degree of closure in complwx segments'', Norval Smith, Harry van der Hulst (editors), ''Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes , Part 1, Linguistic Models 12a, page 176,
    • The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
  • * 2003 , Awtar Krishan, Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells'', R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan (editors), ''Advanced Flow Cytometry: Applications in Biological Research , page 55,
    • By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.
  • That which has flowed out.
    • the efflux of a boil
  • * Thomson
    • Prime cheerer, light! Efflux divine.
  • * 1963 , Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity , page 31,
    • Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes' following a double way, ascending and descending. From the earth and sea arise ' effluxes , some dry, others moist.

    Synonyms

    * (process of flowing out) outflow, effluxion, effluence * (that which has flowed out) outflow

    Verb

    (es)
  • To run out.
  • To flow forth.
  • (obsolete) To pass away.

    • gush

    English

    (wikipedia gush)

    Noun

    (gushes)
  • A sudden rapid outflow.

    • Verb

  • To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.
  • * Spenser
    • A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound.
  • To make an excessive display of enthusiasm or sentiment.

    • Anagrams

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