Exhaust vs Urge - What's the difference?
exhaust | urge |
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.
To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
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.
To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
(chemistry) 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 system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
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Short for .
(obsolete) Exhausted; used up.
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
* Alexander Pope
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
* Shakespeare
To provoke; to exasperate.
* Shakespeare
To press hard upon; to follow closely.
* Alexander Pope
To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
(obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
To press onward or forward.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
As nouns the difference between exhaust and urge
is that exhaust is a system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system while urge is gopher (a small burrowing furry rodent).As a verb exhaust
is 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.As an adjective exhaust
is (obsolete) exhausted; used up.exhaust
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Verb
(en verb)- A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. --Motley.
Synonyms
* spend, consume * tire out, weary * See alsoNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
Derived terms
* exhaust draught * exhaust fan * exhaustless * exhaust nozzle * exhaust pipe * exhaust port * exhaust purifier * exhaust steam * exhaust system * exhaust valveAdjective
(-)External links
* * *urge
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Verb
(urg)- through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight
- My brother never / Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
- Urge not my father's anger.
- Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
- to urge''' an argument; to '''urge the necessity of a case
- to urge an ore with intense heat
