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Effuse vs Efflux - What's the difference?

effuse | efflux |

In obsolete terms the difference between effuse and efflux

is that effuse is effusion; loss while efflux is to pass away.

As an adjective effuse

is poured out freely; profuse.

effuse

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Poured out freely; profuse.
  • * Barrow
    • So should our joy be very effuse .
  • Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
    • (Young)
  • (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.
    • an effuse inflorescence
  • (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

    • Verb

    (effus)
  • to emit; to give off
  • (figuratively) to gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something
  • To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
  • * Milton
    • With gushing blood effused .
  • to leak out through a small hole

    • Derived terms

    * effuser

    Noun

  • (obsolete) effusion; loss
  • * Shakespeare
    • Much effuse of blood.
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    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.