exhaust : Idioms & Phrases

• a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through.

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• noun a fan that moves air out of an enclosure
  

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• a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it.

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• noun gases ejected from an engine as waste products
  exhaust; fumes.
  

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• noun metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
  hood.
  

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• noun a manifold that receives exhaust gases from the cylinders and conducts them to the exhaust pipe
  

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• (Steam Engine), the blast orifice or nozzle.

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• noun a pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler
  

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• (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser.

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• (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes.

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• (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. Knight.

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• (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston.

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• noun system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged
  exhaust.
  

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• noun a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold
  

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• (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder.

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• . (Physics) See under Receiver.

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• (Steam Eng.), a blast pipe with an adjustable opening.

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