Leakage vs Consume - What's the difference?
leakage | consume |
an act of leaking, or something that leaks
the amount lost due to a leak
an undesirable flow of electric current through insulation
loss of retail stock, especially due to theft
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
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 :
As a noun leakage
is an act of leaking, or something that leaks.As a verb consume is
to use.leakage
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Noun
consume
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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.