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Definition: Effusion |
EffusionNoun1. An unrestrained expression of emotion. 2. Flow under pressure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "effusion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Effusion \Ef*fu"sion\, noun. [Latin expression effusio: compare to the French expression effusion.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The escape of fluid into a part or tissue, as an exudation or a transudation. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | The flow of gas through holes which are sufficiently large for the velocity to be approximately proportional to the square root of the pressure difference. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The property of gases that allows them to pass through porous bodies; i.e., the flow of gases through larger holes than those to which diffusion is strictly applicable b. The emission of relatively fluid lava onto the Earth's surface; also,the rock so formed. CF:extrusion i.e., the flow of gases through larger holes than those to which diffusion is strictly applicable. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In chemistry, effusion is the process where individual particles flow through a hole so tiny they must go one at a time. Gases effuse, the rate at which they do so is dependent on their atomic radius. Gases composed of large particles effuse slower than gases composed of small particles. This is why a balloon filled full of the small diatomic molecule hydrogen will deflate, if left alone for a reasonable amount of time, faster than one of the larger diatomic molecule oxygen.
See also diffusion.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Effusion."
Synonyms: EffusionSynonyms: gush (n), outburst (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Egress | Noun: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush; (water in motion); outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling; Verb: defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge; (excretion). |
Ejection | Noun: ejection, emission, effusion, rejection, expulsion,exportation, eviction, extrusion, trajection; discharge. |
Excretion | Noun: excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, stools, crap; bloody flux; cacation; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation, exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology. |
Killing | Noun: killing. Verb: homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue. |
Speech | Noun: speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Effusion |
| English words defined with "effusion": Dry blow ♦ Ecchymose, Effluxion, Egophony ♦ Hemoothorax ♦ Spilth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "effusion": diffuse malignant mesothelioma ♦ Ewart's sign ♦ Lymphangiomyoma ♦ Peppermint ♦ revolution ♦ Sansom sign. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "effusion": Foison. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Effusion" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (effusion, issue, outpourings, spilling). |
| Domain | Title |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It was but an effusion of lively spirits |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The chest x-ray is used to diagnose a pneumothorax or the presence of fluid in the chest cavity (pleural effusion). (references) | |
Obstruction of the lymphatic vessels by the excess muscle growth can lead to leakage of fluid into the chest cavity (pleural effusion). (references) | ||
The second type is called otitis media with effusion (fluid), or OME. This means fluid and mucus stay trapped in the ear after the infection is over. OME makes it harder for the ear to fight new infections. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it -- this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed. The French revolution is of incalculable value to the Socialist of to-day; when he pulls the string actuating its bones its gestures are inexpressibly terrifying to gory tyrants suspected of fomenting law and order. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Happily for the interests of humanity, the hostilities with the Creeks were brought to a close soon after your adjournment, without that effusion of blood which at one time was apprehended as inevitable. |
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| "Effusion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Effusion" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "effusion". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ashdod | N/A | Biblical | Effusion |
| Ephes-dammim | N/A | Biblical | Effusion of blood |
| Iram | N/A | Biblical | The effusion of them |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "effusion": Otitis Media with Effusion ♦ pericardial effusion ♦ Pleural effusion ♦ poetic effusion ♦ Subdural Effusion. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pleural effusion | 184 | effusion joint small | 3 |
pericardial effusion | 50 | treatment of pleural effusion | 3 |
effusion | 42 | after effusion lobectomy | 3 |
effusion joint | 41 | effusion suprapatellar | 3 |
knee effusion | 18 | effusion parapneumonic | 2 |
otitis media with effusion | 15 | effusion hip | 2 |
effusion joint knee | 15 | ankle effusion | 2 |
malignant pleural effusion | 8 | adult effusion media otitis | 2 |
effusion plural | 7 | effusion plueral | 2 |
effusion pulmonary | 4 | pleural effusion information | 2 |
ear effusion middle | 3 | ear effusion | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "effusion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpërthim (access, blast, blowout, burst, conniption, detonation, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare up, furor, gush, gust, outbreak, outburst, output, paroxysm, report, Sally, tornado), shfrim (outburst, vent), rrjedhje (derivation, dotage, dribble, efflux, escape, flow, flowing, flux, leak, leakage, ooze, outflow), derdhje (cast, casting, debouchment, ejaculation, ejection, escape, inflow, influent, influx, outfall, outpouring, pour, spill). (various references) | |
Arabic | إندفاق, راقة, شىء مراق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ефузия, проливане, изтичане (discharge, effluence, efflux, escape, expiration, expiry, flow, fluxion, issuance, issue, leak, leakage, outflow, outgo, outlet, seepage, termination), изливане (casting, issue, outflow). (various references) | |
Czech | rozšíření (amplification, dilatation, dissemination, enlargement, expansion, extension, spread). (various references) | |
Danish | ekssudation, effusion, udflyden, udbrud (breakout, burn-through, burst, eruption, expression, outbreak). (various references) | |
Dutch | effusie. (various references) | |
Finnish | effuusio, vuodatus. (various references) | |
French | effusion. (various references) | |
German | erguss (bruise, contusion, ejaculation, emission, gush, outpour, outpouring). (various references) | |
Greek | διάχυση (diffusion, interfusion, permeation, pervasion, suffusion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שתית" (bleeding, flow, flux), "שתפכות (effluence, outpouring, overflow). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiömlés (discharge, effluence, effusiveness, overflow, spill, spillage, spilling), ontás (shedding), kifolyás (efflux, issue, leakage, ooze, outflow, spillage, spilling), ömlengés (gush, outpouring, raving). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ungkapan atau curahan hati. (various references) | |
Italian | versamento (deposit, outpour, payment, spilling). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 噴出 (eruption, gushing, spewing, spouting), 滲出 (extraction, exudation, percolation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"しゅつ (advance, extraction, exudation, infiltration, percolation, permeation, step forward), ふ"しゅつ (eruption, gushing, spewing, spouting). (various references) | |
Manx | thooilley (cloudburst, deluge, downfall, downpour, flood, flow, inundation, onrush, spate, stream, water-spout), deayrtey (brew, brew of tea, efflux, pour, pour out, run over, shed, shower, spill, spillage, stream). (various references) | |
Norwegian | utgytelse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | effusionay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | efusão (outflow, outpouring). (various references) | |
Romanian | emitere (ejection, emission, release), efuziune (gush), vãrsare (flow, influx, issue, spill). (various references) | |
Russian | излияние (gush, outpouring). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izlivanje (outflow, outpour, outpouring). (various references) | |
Spanish | efusión (outflow, outpouring, unction, warmth). (various references) | |
Swedish | utgjutning (extravasation). (various references) | |
Turkish | efüzyon, taşkınlık (abundance, boisterousness, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, excess, extravagance, exuberance, exuberancy, flush, frenzy, furor, furore, gush, intemperance, overflowing, rampancy, transport), içini dökme (effusiveness, outpour, outpouring), coşkunluk (abundance, colour, cyclone, ebullience, ebulliency, ecstasy, effusiveness, enthusiasm, exaltation, exuberance, exuberancy, fervor, fervour, flush, frenzy, vehemence, vibrancy), bolluk (abundance, affluence, ampleness, amplitude, bonanza, copiousness, cornucopia, effusiveness, exuberance, exuberancy, fleshpot, fleshpots, flood, fullness, fulness, glut, handsomeness, horn of plenty, lashings, looseness, luxuriance, luxuriancy, opulence, overflowing, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificness, prosperity, rankness, richness, store, stores, superfluity, wealth, wideness, width), akma (discharge, effluence, efflux, expulsion, flowing, flux, pour), akıtma, açılma (burst, clarification, dehiscence, deploy, deployment, dilatation, dilation, divergence, divergency, effusiveness, evolution, expanse, expansiveness, fade in, fading, opening, recrudescence, spreading, thaw). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виверження (ejaculation, ejecta, eructation, eruption, outing), пролиття (effuse). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tuôn ra (flood, fulmination, loose), sự tr o ra. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | effusio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Hebrews Chapter 9, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai scedon en aimati panta kaqarizetai kata ton nomon kai cwriV aimatekcusiaV ou ginetai afesiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et omnia paene in sanguine mundantur secundum legem et sine sanguinis fusione non fit remissio |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And almest alle thingis ben clensid in blood bi the lawe; and without scheding of blood remyssioun of synnes is not maad. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And almost all thynges are bye the lawe pourged with bloud and with out effusion of bloud is no remission. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And almost all things are by the law cleansed with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness. |
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| Language | Hebrews Chapter 9, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | Sa pagkatinuod, ubos sa kasugoan hapit ang tanang butang pagahinloon ug dugo, ug gawas sa pag-ula ug dugo walay mahimong pasaylo sa mga sala. |
| Croatian | I gotovo se sve po zakonu èisti krvlju i bez prolijevanja krvi nema oproštenja. |
| Danish | Og næsten alt bliver efter Loven renset med Blod, og uden Blods Udgydelse sker der ikke Forladelse. |
| Dutch | En alle dingen worden bijna door bloed gereinigd naar de wet, en zonder bloedstorting geschiedt geen vergeving. |
| Finnish | Niin puhdistetaan lain mukaan miltei kaikki verellä, ja ilman verenvuodatusta ei tapahdu anteeksiantamista. |
| French | Et presque tout, d`après la loi, est purifié avec du sang, et sans effusion de sang il n`y a pas de pardon. |
| German | Und es wird fast alles mit Blut gereinigt nach dem Gesetz; und ohne Blut vergießen geschieht keine Vergebung. |
| Haitian Creole | Dapre lalwa, san an mete prèske tout bagay nan kondisyon pou fè sèvis Bondye. Si san pa koule, nanpwen padon pou peche yo. |
| Hungarian | És csaknem minden vérrel tisztíttatik meg a törvény szerint, és vérontás nélkül nincsen bûnbocsánat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Memang menurut hukum agama Yahudi, hampir segala sesuatu disucikan dengan darah; dan dosa hanya bisa diampuni kalau ada penumpahan darah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahkan, menurut hukum Taurat hampir-hampir sekalian perkara disucikan dengan darah, dan lain daripada menumpahkan darah tiadalah ada ampun. |
| Italian | Secondo la legge, infatti, quasi tutte le cose vengono purificate con il sangue e senza spargimento di sangue non esiste perdono. |
| Maori | I runga hoki i te ture, e tata ana ka kiia, e purea ana nga mea katoa ki te toto; ki te kahore hoki he ringihanga toto, kahore he murunga hara. |
| Norwegian | Og næsten alt blir efter loven renset med blod, og uten blod blir utgydt, skjer ikke forlatelse. |
| Portuguese | E quase todas as coisas, segundo a lei, se purificam com sangue; e sem derramamento de sangue não há remissão. |
| Rumanian | Wi, dupq Lege, aproape totul este curqyit cu sknge; wi fqrq vqrsare de sknge, nu este iertare. |
| Russian | дБ Й ЧУЕ ПЮФЙ П ЪБЛПОХ ПЮЙЭБЕФУС ЛТПЧША, Й 'ЕЪ ТПМЙФЙС ЛТПЧЙ ОЕ 'ЩЧБЕФ ТПЭЕОЙС. |
| Shuar | Nu akupkamujai penké ishichik numpajainchu shiir awajsamniaiti. Túrasha numpajainchu Tunáa penké Asakárchamniaiti. |
| Swahili | Naam, kadiri ya Sheria karibu kila kitu chaweza kutakaswa kwa damu, na dhambi nazo zaondolewa tu ikiwa damu imemwagwa. |
| Swedish | Så renas enligt lagen nästan allting med blod, och utan att blod utgjutes gives ingen förlåtelse. |
| Uma | Ma'ala-mi ta'uli' hewa toi: ntuku' Atura Musa, neo' butu nyala-na kana rabohoi' hante raa'. Ane uma ria poraa', uma te'ampungi jeko' -ta. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "effusion": effusions. (additional references) | |
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"Effusion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defusion, Efisio, enfusion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-i-n-o-s-u" | |
-2 letters: fusion, infuse. | |
-3 letters: eosin, fiefs, fifes, fines, finos, foins, infos, neifs, noise, sniff, snuff. | |
-4 letters: effs, eons, fens, feus, fief, fife, fine, fino, fins, foes, foin, fons, funs, fuse, info, ions, neif, noes, nose, nous, offs, ones, onus, seif, sine, sone. | |
-5 letters: eff, efs, ens, eon, fen, feu, fie, fin, foe, fon, fou, fun. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-i-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: effusions. | |
+2 letters: effluxions. | |
+4 letters: buffooneries, overstuffing. | |
+5 letters: effectuations, inefficacious, nondiffusible, officiousness. | |
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