Quenched vs Turnoff - What's the difference?
quenched | turnoff |
(quench)
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 a verb quenched
is (quench).As a noun turnoff is
a road or path that branches off from a main one.quenched
English
Verb
(head)- I quenched my thirst with soup.
quench
English
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.