suction : Idioms & Phrases

• the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers.

Webster 1913

• noun a cup-shaped device (made of rubber, glass, or plastic) that produces a partial vacuum; used to adhere or draw something to a surface
  

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• noun a method of induced abortion; prior to the 14th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix
  vacuum aspiration.
  

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• noun lipectomy (especially for cosmetic purposes) in which excess fatty tissue is removed from under the skin by suction
  liposuction.
  

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• the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively.

Webster 1913

• noun a pump for raising fluids by suction
  

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• the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. See Illust. of Pump.

Webster 1913

• noun a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
  click.
  

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