Word Finder - consumption

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The act of eating, drinking or using.

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The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.

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The amount consumed.

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gross national consumption

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The act of consuming or destroying.

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The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.

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The wasting away of the human body through disease.

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Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

There was a rising worldwide consumption of consumer goods.

The export trade, however, is decreasing considerably, while the home consumption is increasing.

He died of consumption on the 25th of September 1 777.

Since then special laws have hampered development, some provinces, as for instance Sardinia, being allowed to manufacture for their own consumption but not for export.

Natural gas is largely used in the United States, and for some time, owing to defective methods of storage, delivery and consumption, great waste occurred.

Certain districts are distinguished for particular kinds of fruit, which form an important article of commerce both for inland consumption and for export.

Identity of the Food of Animals and Plants.rt is evidently to the actual seats of consumption of food, and of consequent nutrition and increase of living substance, that we should turn when we wish to inquire what are the nutritive materials of plants.

The former apply principally to successions, stamps, registrations, mortgages, &c.; the latter to distilleries, breweries, explosives, native sugar and matches, though the customs revenue and octrois upon articles of general consumption, such as corn, wine, spirits, meat, flour, petroleum butter, tea, coffee and sugar, may be considered as belonging to thu class.

Four out of the five essays are elaborate and powerful solutions of perplexing technical problems - the distribution of the gains of international commerce, the influence of consumption on production, the definition of productive and unproductive labour, the precise relations between profits and wages.

It is estimated that the amount thus used in India exclusive of the consumption of mills is equivalent to about 400,000 bales.

Of the total sugar consumption of the country in1899-1904Louisiana produced somewhat more than a fifteenth.

Consumption of Kohat salt is restricted, on account of its paying less duty, to the tracts lying to the north of the Indus and to the frontier tribes.

Louis, by his researches on pulmonary consumption and typhoid fever, had the chief merit of refuting the doctrines of Broussais.

Consumption is not uncommon.

Rice is grown in irrigated lands near the rivers and in the swamps, and also in rude clearings in the interior; sugar-cane of superior quality in Sambas and Montrado; cotton, sometimes exported in small quantities, on the banks of the Negara, a tributary of the Barito; tobacco, used very largely now in the production of cigars, in various parts of northern Borneo; and tobacco for native consumption, which is of small commercial importance, is cultivated in most parts of the island.

Values can therefore be accumulated only by being reproduced in the course or, as often happens, by the very act of consumption; hence his distinction between reproductive and unproductive consumption.

Lowness of price has not been the only factor in increasing the rate of consumption.

The value of the oranges exported from Jaffa in 1906 was £162,000; this amount increases annually, and of course in addition a considerable quantity is retained for home consumption.

Cheese and butter are manufactured in large quantities for home consumption.

Only government manufactures and manufactures for local consumption are at all large.

Consumption.-It is only natural that the consumption of wine should be greatest in the countries where it is produced on the largest scale, but the discrepancy between the consumption of different countries is little short of astonishing.

It qualifies as a consumption tax because it is collected from consumers.

Most cars achieve optimal power and fuel consumption between 2000 and 3500 RPM.

It isn't always easy to figure out your estimated fuel consumption and costs, but there are plenty of sites that will help you come up with an accurate estimate based on your car and its rated gas mileage.

Fuel calculators will help you figure out your car's precise fuel consumption, but you need to collect some information before you can get started with the online calculators.

The sports concept of this vehicle will combine AWD technologies with hybrid technologies to produce a vehicle that offers better performance and energy consumption.

Consumers complained about the poor fuel economy of the V6, and engineers worked to improve the fuel consumption for this model.

Maybe you should consider avoiding having red Kool Aid beverages at home, or limiting their consumption to rooms that do not have carpet.

Unlike the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet does not encourage excessive consumption of saturated fats, such as those found in bacon, cheeses and butter.

South Beach also allows for greater consumption of vegetables than Atkins, primarily ones that rank low on the glycemic index.

Although it allows more fat consumption than some diets, that's not to say that quantities are unlimited.

I dramatically cut down on my sugar consumption after only two weeks.

The diet does not encourage excessive consumption of saturated fats, such as those found in bacon, cheeses and butter.

It also allows for greater consumption of vegetables, primarily ones that rank low on the glycemic index.

Quite. Although it allows more fat consumption than some diets, that's not to say that quantities are unlimited.

Limit fat intake, however, because too much fat of any type increases calorie consumption, which may induce weight gain.

The glycemic index is based on the principle that the over consumption of processed carbohydrates is bad for the body.

Naturally, balance is key even when it comes to the consumption of healthy fresh foods.

In addition, the plan authorizes the consumption of as much red meat, poultry, fried foods and high fat foods as you want.

As the total annual export of oats is now less than three million bushels the home consumption is large, and this is an advantage in maintaining the fertility of the soil.

Large flocks of geese are kept in the moist lowlands; their flesh is salted for domestic consumption during the winter, and their feathers are prepared for sale.

A little later, about 1868, successful experiments were made with gas as a manufacturing fuel, and in 1872 the gas industry was fairly well established near Titusville by drilling a well and piping the gas for consumption both as fuel and light.

One of the most universal articles of consumption in Tibet is the Chinese brick-tea, which even passes as currency.

In agriculture, European plants have not been successful, and of native products the supply is only sufficient for the home consumption.

The grain crop suffices only for a few months' local consumption; but considerable quantities of olive oil of good quality are produced.

This process, which is as yet imperfectly understood, is attended by the consumption of oxygen, the liberation of energy in the form of heat, and the exhalation of carbon dioxide and water vapour.

There are some very evident disadvantages of excessive height; for instance, that the weight of an excessively high column of solid coke, ore and limestone tends to crush the coke and jam the charge in the lower and narrowing part of the furnace, and that the frictional resistance of a long column calls for a greater consumption of power for driving the blast up through it.

He was ordained to the curacy of St Thomas's, Dublin, but, being threatened with consumption, went after two years to Malaga.

The best taxes, he says, are those levied on consumption, especially on Taxation luxuries, for these are least heavily felt.

On the 18th of May 1807 the duc de Montpensier died at Christchurch in Hampshire, where he had been taken for change of air, of consumption.