Tucker vs Exhaust - What's the difference?
tucker | exhaust |
(countable) One who or that which tucks.
* 1914 , US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conciliation, Arbitration, and Sanitation in the Dress and Waist Industry of New York City'', ''Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 145 ,
*:: Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers', laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the ' tuckers on account of the recent controversy.
*:: Complaint of the union was sustained. Tuckers were paid the amount of money they were deprived of through being discriminated against, $158.90.
(uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.
(countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
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(obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.
To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
(chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.
A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
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Short for .
(obsolete) Exhausted; used up.
As a proper noun tucker
is ; equivalent to fuller.As a verb exhaust is
to draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.As a noun exhaust is
a system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.As an adjective exhaust is
(obsolete) exhausted; used up.tucker
English
Etymology 1
(en)Derived terms
* tucker outNoun
(tucker)page 108,
- Nature of Grievance:
- Determination:
Derived terms
* bush tuckerSee also
* best bib and tucker * tucker fuckerEtymology 2
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)unnumbered page,
- “And, ma?am,” he continued, “the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one.”
- “I think I can explain that circumstance, sir. Agnes and Catherine Johnstone were invited to take tea with some friends at Lowton last Thursday, and I gave them leave to put on clean tuckers for the occasion.”
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- “Now let us go home, and never mind Aunt March to-day. We can run down there any time, and it?s really a pity to trail through the dust in our best bibs and tuckers , when we are tired and cross.”
exhaust
English
Verb
(en verb)- A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. --Motley.
Synonyms
* spend, consume * tire out, weary * See alsoNoun
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