Dictionary Definition
consumption
Noun
1 the process of taking food into the body
through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: ingestion, intake, uptake]
2 involving the lungs with progressive wasting of
the body [syn: pulmonary
tuberculosis, phthisis, wasting
disease, white
plague]
3 (economics) the utilization of economic goods
to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy
has increased steadily" [syn: economic
consumption, usance,
use,
use of goods and services]
4 the act of consuming something [syn: using up,
expenditure]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- The act of consuming
something.
- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- The amount consumed.
- gross national consumption
- pathology obsolete The wasting-away of the human body through disease, later specifically applied to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Translations
the act of consuming something
- Bulgarian: консумиране , изразходване
- Catalan: consum
- Czech: spotřeba , konzumace
- Finnish: kuluttaminen, kulutus
- French: consommer, consumer
- German: Konsum
- Hebrew: צריכה (tzrikha) (act of consuming goods)
- Japanese: 消費 (しょうひ, shōhi)
- Portuguese: consumo
- Russian: потребление (potreblénije)
- Spanish: consumir
the amount consumed
- Bulgarian: консумация
- Catalan: consum
- Czech: spotřeba
- Finnish: kulutus
- French: consommation
- German: Verbrauch , Verbrauchswert
- Russian: потребление (potreblénije)
- Spanish: consumo
tuberculosis
- Bulgarian: туберкулоза
- Catalan: tuberculosi
- Czech: tuberkulóza , souchotiny
- Finnish: tuberkuloosi
- French: tuberculose
- German: Schwindsucht
- Russian: чахотка (čakhótka)
- Turkish: tüberküloz
- Spanish: tuberculosis
Extensive Definition
Consumption may refer to:
- Consumption (economics)
- Consumption function, an economic formula
- Power consumption, in electrical engineering
Consumption may also refer to:
- Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease
- The ingestion of food and drink
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Sanforizing, TB, ablation, active use, aerogenic
tuberculosis, appetite,
appliance, application, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, cannibalism, carnage, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness,
cerebral tuberculosis, chewing, colliquation, corrosion, cropping, damnation, decimation, decrease, decrement, deglutition, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, disintegration, disorganization,
disruption,
disseminated tuberculosis, dissipation, dissolution, drain, drying, drying up, eating, emaceration, emaciation, employ, employment, epulation, erosion, evaporation, exercise, exertion, exhaustion, expenditure, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, good use, grazing, hard usage, hard use,
havoc, hecatomb, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness,
holocaust, hunger, ill use, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage, licking, loss, lupus vulgaris, manducation, marcescence, mastication, messing, misuse, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, parching, pasture, pasturing, pecking, perdition, phthisis, preshrinkage, pulmonary
tuberculosis, ravage,
regalement, relishing, rough usage,
ruin, ruination, rumination, savoring, scrofula, scrofuloderma, searing, shambles, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, slaughter, spoliation, tasting, thinning, tuberculosis, tuberculosis
cutis, tuberculosis luposa, tuberculous meningitis, undoing, usage, use, using, using up, vandalism, vegetarianism, wastage, waste, wasting, wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, white
plague, wilting,
withering, wolfing, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrong use