| 单词 | consumption |
| 释义 | consumption (once / 347 pages) 1n 2n 3n Consumption means using, buying or eating something. If we don't reduce our energy consumption, we will run out of fuel. Conspicuous consumption is buying something to show off. Consumption is related to the verb consume, which means to eat, use, or buy. You will often read about consumption in terms of rate––how fast we are using up a particular resource. If you consume ten cookies in an hour, your rate of consumption is ten cookies an hour. Sustainable? Let's hope not. WORD FAMILYconsumption: consumptions+/consume: consumable, consumed, consumer, consumes, consuming, consumption, consumptive/consumed: unconsumed/consumer: consumerism, consumers/consuming: consumingly/consumptive: consumptively, consumptives/unconsumed: unconsumedly USAGE EXAMPLESMy female GP changed my condition to non-morbid obesity after I complained that the previous label, obesity due to excess food consumption, was inaccurate. New York Times(May 02, 2016) This is a common-sense effect: Increased oil supply leads to increased oil consumption. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) The financial center also remains an important transit and consumption hub for illegal ivory to China and the rest of Asia. Reuters(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n the act of consuming something Syn|Hypo|Hyper expenditure, using up burnup the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) depletion the act of decreasing something markedly 2n the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper ingestion, intake, uptake eating, feeding the act of consuming food deglutition, drink, swallowthe act of swallowing suck, sucking, suctionthe act of sucking drinking, imbibing, imbibitionthe act of consuming liquids mycophagythe practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild) bite, chompthe act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws browse, browsingthe act of feeding by continual nibbling coprophagia, coprophagyeating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity aerophagiaswallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence) draft, draught, gulp, swiga large and hurried swallow diningthe act of eating dinner engorgementeating ravenously or voraciously to satiation banqueting, feastingeating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) graze, grazingthe act of grazing lunchingthe act of eating lunch repletion, surfeiteating until excessively full suppingingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring, tastingtaking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality necrophagia, necrophagyfeeding on corpses or carrion omophagiathe eating of raw food scatophagythe eating of excrement or other filth gulping, guzzling, swillingthe drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly sipa small drink potationthe act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink) activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process an organic process that takes place in the body n (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing 3the consumption of energy has increased steadily Syn|Hypo|Hyper economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services conspicuous consumption buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth demand the ability and desire to purchase goods and services n a disease involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body Syn|Hyper phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague T.B., TB, tuberculosis infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) |
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