Shortage vs Exhaustion - What's the difference?
shortage | exhaustion | Related terms |
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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, title= The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
(dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
(maths) An exhaustive procedure
Shortage is a related term of exhaustion.
As nouns the difference between shortage and exhaustion
is that shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount while exhaustion is the point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.shortage
English
Noun
(wikipedia shortage) (en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
Antonyms
* glut * mountain (as in butter mountain)See also
* drought * famine * ration * rationingexhaustion
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion , prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
