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Outflow   /ˈaʊtflˌoʊ/   Listen
Outflow

noun
1.
The discharge of a fluid from some container.  Synonyms: escape, leak, leakage.  "He had to clean up the leak"
2.
The process of flowing out.  Synonyms: effluence, efflux.
3.
A natural flow of ground water.  Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outpouring, spring.






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"Outflow" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cabouy, whose outflow forms a tributary of the Ouysse, is a cottage where a man lives whose destiny I have often envied. When he is tired of fishing or shooting, he works in his thriving little vineyard, which he increases every year. The river is as much his own as if it belonged to him; he gets all he wants by ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker

... fresh air will of itself rush in at the other end to take its place. My plan is to sink a shaft at the farther end of the mine, and to build an air-tight box at the surface opening, completely closing it, except for an outflow pipe. Then I shall put one of the big ironclad fans into that box upside down. When it is set spinning it will suck air out of the mine, and fresh air will rush in at the main shaft to take the place ...
— A Captain in the Ranks - A Romance of Affairs • George Cary Eggleston

... to think; when thought returned, I was afraid to move. All at once the face of Mary Osborne dawned out of the vision before me—how different, how glorified from its waking condition! It was perfectly lovely—transfigured by the unchecked outflow of feeling. The recognition brought me to my senses at once. I did not waste a single thought in speculating how the mistake had occurred, for there was not a moment to be lost. I must be wise to shield her, and chiefly, as much ...
— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald



Words linked to "Outflow" :   influx, geological formation, hot spring, discharge, geyser, Fountain of Youth, formation, thermal spring, inflow, run, flow



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