Quench vs Turnoff - What's the difference?
quench | turnoff |
To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light.)
To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
(physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
As nouns the difference between quench and turnoff
is that quench is (physics) the abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state while turnoff is a road or path that branches off from a main one.As a verb quench
is to satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.quench
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Verb
(es)- The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.
- I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.
- Then the MacManus went down. The sudden quench of the white light was how I knew it. -- Saul Bellow
- The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.