English-Thai Dictionary

consumption

N การ บริโภค  ingestion intake uptake kan-bo-ri-pok

 

consumption

N การ ใช้ หมด ไป  expenditure using up kan-chai-mod-pai

 

consumption

N ปริมาณ การ บริโภค  pa-ri-man-kan-bo-ri-pok

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONSUMPTION

n.[L. See Consume. ] 1. The act of consuming; waste; destruction by burning, eating, devouring, scattering, dissipation, slow decay, or by passing away, as time; as the consumption of fuel, of food, of commodities or estate, of time, etc.
2. The state of being wasted, or diminished.
Etna and Vesuvius have not suffered any considerable diminution or consumption.
3. In medicine, a wasting of flesh; a gradual decay or diminution of the body; a word of extensive signification. But particularly, the disease called phthisis pulmonalis, pulmonic consumption, a disease seated in the lungs, attended with hectic fever, cough, etc.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CONSUMPTION

Con *sump "tion, n.. Etym: [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.]

 

1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc. ; decay; destruction. Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke.

 

2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

 

3. (Med. )

 

Defn: A progressive wasting away of the body; esp. , that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc. ; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med. ),inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

 

Syn. -- Decline; waste; decay. See Decline.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

consumption

con sump tion |kənˈsəm (p )SHən kənˈsəm (p )ʃən | ▶noun 1 the using up of a resource: industrialized countries should reduce their energy consumption. • the eating, drinking, or ingesting of something: liquor is sold for consumption off the premises. • an amount of something that is used up or ingested: a daily consumption of 15 cigarettes. • the purchase and use of goods and services by the public: an article for mass consumption. • the reception of information or entertainment, esp. by a mass audience: his confidential speech was not meant for public consumption. 2 dated a wasting disease, esp. pulmonary tuberculosis. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin consumptio (n- ), from the verb consumere (see consume ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

consumption

con |sump ¦tion |kənˈsʌm (p )ʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the action of using up a resource: industrialized countries should reduce their energy consumption. • the action of eating or drinking something: liquor is sold for consumption off the premises. • [ in sing. ] an amount of something which is used up or ingested: a daily consumption of 15 cigarettes. • the purchase of goods and services by the public. • the reception of information or entertainment by a mass audience: his confidential speech was not meant for public consumption. 2 dated a wasting disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin consumptio (n- ), from the verb consumere (see consume ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

consumption

consumption noun 1 food unfit for human consumption: eating, drinking, ingestion. 2 the consumption of fossil fuels: use, using up, utilization, expending, depletion; waste, squandering, dissipation.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

consumption

consumption noun 1 the fish were declared unfit for human consumption: eating, devouring, ingestion, swallowing, gobbling (up ); drinking, imbibing; formal manducation. 2 the consumption of fossil fuels: using up, use, utilization, expending, expenditure; depletion, exhaustion; waste, wasting, squander, squandering, draining, dissipation, dissipating. 3 archaic his mother had died of consumption: tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, TB, wasting disease, emaciation; archaic phthisis.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

consumption

con sump tion /kənsʌ́m (p )ʃ (ə )n /→consume 名詞 U 1 (時間 エネルギーなどの )消費 , 消耗 , 使い果たすこと (↔production ); 〖時に a ～〗消費量 [額 ]▸ reduce [increase ] electricity [energy ] consumption 電気 [エネルギー ]消費 (量 )を減らす [増やす ]2 ｟かたく ｠飲食 ; (体内 )摂取 (量 )▸ alcohol consumption アルコール摂取 ▸ These meats are considered safe for human consumption .これらの肉は人間が食べても安全であると考えられている 3 〘経 〙(財 サービスなどの )消費, 購入 ▸ a measure to boost consumption 大衆消費拡大策 4 ｟古 ｠肺結核 (!tuberculosisの俗称; 消耗性の病気であることから ) .5 (腐朽 破壊による )消失 , 消耗 .for p ù blic cons ú mption 〈情報 娯楽などが 〉大衆のための .～́ d ù ty [t à x ]消費税 .～́ g ò ods ＝consumer goods .