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What (who) is Consume - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Consuming; Consumption (disambiguation); Consume
consume
¦ verb
1. eat, drink, or ingest.
use up.
(especially of a fire) completely destroy.
2. buy (goods or services) for personal use.
3. (of a feeling) absorb all of the attention and energy of.
Derivatives
consuming adjective
consumingly adverb
Origin
ME: from L. consumere, from con- 'altogether' + sumere 'take up'.
consume
(consumes, consuming, consumed)
1.
If you consume something, you eat or drink it. (FORMAL)
Many people experienced a drop in their cholesterol levels when they consumed oat bran.
VERB: V n
2.
To consume an amount of fuel, energy, or time means to use it up.
Some of the most efficient refrigerators consume 70 percent less electricity than traditional models.
VERB: V n
3.
If a feeling or idea consumes you, it affects you very strongly indeed.
The memories consumed him.
VERB: V n
4.
Wikipedia
Consumption
Consumption may refer to:
- Resource consumption
- Tuberculosis, an infectious disease, historically known as consumption
- Consumption (ecology), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms
- Consumption (economics), the purchasing of newly produced goods for current use also defined as the consuming of products
- Consumption function, an economic formula
- Consumption (sociology) of resources, associated with social class, identity, group membership, and age
Examples of use of Consume
1. Africans consume 37 liters of water a day on average; Americans consume 420 liters a day.
2. Hungry adults miss more work and consume more health care.
3. They consume more resources and recycle less than women.
4. But does it follow that we should not consume them?
5. Most significantly, the plants consume large amounts of energy.