different between transfuse vs effuse

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

transfuse (third-person singular simple present transfuses, present participle transfusing, simple past and past participle transfused)

1. (transitive, medicine) To administer a transfusion of.
   • 1952, Vincent Joseph Collins, Principles and Practice of Anesthesiology (page 461)

     A few years subsequent to his investigation, Richard Lower, also working on dogs, successfully tranfused the blood of one dog to that of another.

2. (transitive) To pour liquid from one vessel into another.
3. (transitive) To diffuse or permeate through something.

Translations

Anagrams

• refusants

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: transfusent, transfuses

Verb

transfuse

1. first-person singular present indicative of transfuser
2. third-person singular present indicative of transfuser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of transfuser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of transfuser
5. second-person singular imperative of transfuser

Italian

Verb

transfuse

1. third-person singular past historic of transfondere

transfuse

1. feminine plural of transfuso

Latin

Participle

tr?nsf?se

1. vocative masculine singular of tr?nsf?sus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French effuser, from Latin effusus, past participle of effundere (“to pour out”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /??fju?s/

• (verb) IPA^(key): /??fju?z/

Adjective

effuse (comparative more effuse, superlative most effuse)

1. Poured out freely; profuse.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Nativity of our Lord tidings of great Joy (sermon)

     So should our joy be very effuse.

2. Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal.
3. (botany) Spreading loosely, especially on one side.

4. (zoology) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading, as in certain shells.

Verb

effuse (third-person singular simple present effuses, present participle effusing, simple past and past participle effused)

1. (transitive) to emit; to give off
2. (figuratively) to gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something
3. (intransitive) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed.
4. (intransitive) to leak out through a small hole

Translations

Noun

effuse

1. (obsolete) effusion; loss

Derived terms

• effuser

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uze

Verb

effuse

1. third-person singular past historic of effondere

effuse f

1. plural of effuso

Latin

Participle

eff?se

1. vocative masculine singular of eff?sus

References

• effuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• effuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• effuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette