different between exhaustless vs exhaust

English

Etymology

exhaust +? -less

Adjective

exhaustless (comparative more exhaustless, superlative most exhaustless)

1. Unable to be exhausted; having an endless supply; inexhaustible.
2. (of an automobile or similar machine) Not producing exhaust; nonpolluting.
   • 1969, Machine Design, volume 41, page 60

     These obstacles preclude near-future solutions for exhaustless vehicles, or those having an exhaust with greatly reduced toxicity.

   • 1971, John R. Wish, Marketing and social issues: an action reader, John Wiley & Sons

     We need an exhaustless automobile, a noiseless and versatile airplane. We need new methods of reducing and coping with wastes—radioactive, sewage, gaseous, and liquid.

   • 1973, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Stadtsysteme (?ISBN)

     The car is at the same time the greatest producer of noise and the greatest polluter, and thus responsible for the rapidly accelerating debasement of the human environment. The long overdue noiseless and exhaustless automobile would ...

   • 1979, Cars and Parts, volume 22, page 13

     After he had finished he drove it over to Newton and started parading back and forth in the exhaustless car in front of the Stanley plant. Not a single whisp of steam could be seen, exhausting out any exhaust pipe. In fact he had no exhaust pipe ...

   • 2014, Matthew Johnson, Irregular Verbs, ChiZine (?ISBN)

     Trying to figure out the technology behind its operation—he had seen exhaustless vehicles in another Outline, apparently run on broadcast power ...

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaur?re (“to draw out, drink up, empty, exhaust”), from ex (“out”) + haur?re (“to draw (especially water), drain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z??st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Verb

exhaust (third-person singular simple present exhausts, present participle exhausting, simple past and past participle exhausted)

1. (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely

2. (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents

3. (transitive, figuratively) To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end

4. (transitive) to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy
5. (transitive) To bring out or develop completely
6. (transitive) to discuss thoroughly or completely

7. (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives

Synonyms

• spend, consume
• tire out, weary
• See also Thesaurus:fatigue

Related terms

• exhausted
• exhausting
• exhaustion
• exhaustive
• exhaustible

Translations

Noun

exhaust (plural exhausts)

1. A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
2. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
3. The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
4. An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
5. exhaust gas.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ?????? (igz?z)
• ? Hebrew: ????????? (egzóz)
• ? Persian: ??????

Adjective

exhaust (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Exhausted; used up.

Further reading

• exhaust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exhaust in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• exhaust at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin exhaustus.

Adjective

exhaust (feminine exhausta, masculine plural exhausts or exhaustos, feminine plural exhaustes)

1. out of (no longer in possession of)
2. exhausted

Related terms

• exhaurir
• exhaustió
• exhaustiu

Further reading

• “exhaust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “exhaust” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “exhaust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “exhaust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.