Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which, brings forth,
elicits , orextracts .
Etymologies
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Examples
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An operation at the Indian River Inlet in Delaware is using a massive portable eductor (a dredging pump) to suck up offshore sand deposits.
Robert Dalrymple: Get Ready for Extreme Weather Jeff Howe 2008
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If nevertheless this theory should ever become established, a stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether; which stimulus may consist of sensation or volition, as in the electric eel, as well as in the appulses of external bodies; and by drawing off the charges of vital fluid may occasion the contraction or motions of the muscular fibres, and organs of sense.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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MOUNT LAUREL - A handful of children watched as Pat Gurgul, a Paws Farm Nature Center eductor, mixed common household ingredients together to make slime.
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MOUNT LAUREL - A handful of children watched as Pat Gurgul, a Paws Farm Nature Center eductor, mixed common household ingredients together to make slime.
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