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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a force over an area produced by a pressure difference;

2. the act of sucking;
[syn: sucking, suck, suction]


VERB (2)

1. remove or draw away by the force of suction;
- Example: "the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs"

2. empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction;
- Example: "suction the uterus in an abortion"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Suction \Suc"tion\, n. [L. sugere, suctum, to suck; cf. OF. suction. See Suck, v. t.] The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. [1913 Webster] Suction chamber, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers. Suction pipe, Suction valve, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively. Suction pump, the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. See Illust. of Pump. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

suction n 1: a force over an area produced by a pressure difference 2: the act of sucking [syn: sucking, suck, suction] v 1: remove or draw away by the force of suction; "the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs" 2: empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction; "suction the uterus in an abortion"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "suction": aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching, cupping, drafting, drag, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, favor, inhalation, inhalement, inside track, inspiration, interest, milking, phlebotomy, pipetting, pull, pumping, siphoning, sniff, sniffle, snuff, snuffle, special favor, suck, sucking, tapping, venesection