Leaking vs Efflux - What's the difference?
leaking | efflux | Related terms |
The act by which something leaks.
(in the plural) That which leaks out.
* 2007 , Lynne Conner, Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater (page 15)
The process of flowing out.
* 1832 , Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening ,
* 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,
* 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 ,
That which has flowed out.
* Thomson
* 1963 , Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity ,
To run out.
To flow forth.
(obsolete) To pass away.
Leaking is a related term of efflux.
As verbs the difference between leaking and efflux
is that leaking is while efflux is to run out.As nouns the difference between leaking and efflux
is that leaking is the act by which something leaks while efflux is the process of flowing out.leaking
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- on rainy nights the audience in the pit held up their umbrellas to screen themselves from the leakings through the roof.
Anagrams
*efflux
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Noun
(es)- We all age through the efflux of time.
- The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
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- It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux .
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- The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
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- By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.
- the efflux of a boil
- Prime cheerer, light! Efflux divine.
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- 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.
