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 consuming [kәn'su:miŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 消费的

  1. The act or process of consuming.
    消耗消耗的行为或过程
  2. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
    贪吃的吃掉或想吃大量的食物；狼吞虎咽的
  3. He was consuming his final libation.
    他正在喝着他的最后一杯酒。


consuming
[ adj ]
very intense
<adj.all>
politics is his consuming passionoverwhelming joy


Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Consumed} (k[o^]n*s[=u]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Consuming}.]
[L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con-
+ sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. See {Redeem}.]
To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire;
to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to
devour.

If he were putting to my house the brand
That shall consume it. --Shak.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth consume. --Matt. vi. 20
(Rev. Ver.).

Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. --Ex.
xxxii. 10.

Syn: To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust;
spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.

consuming \consuming\ adj.
taking up most of one's attention; ardent; as, politics is
his consuming passion.

Syn: overwhelming.
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. But those laws don't specifically apply to airlines, and suing, of course, is often expensive and time consuming.
  2. The fine print was still being haggled over yesterday evening. Among other things, consuming countries have been arguing for a defined role on the committee, which will co-ordinate producers' supply plans in the light of expected market conditions.
  3. "Pre-hearing conferences are becoming more numerous and more time consuming," the Big Board memo notes.
  4. A huge silver stockpile at exchanges, refiners, consuming industries and government warehouses of at least 617 million ounces is the market depressant, says Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. in a report.
  5. Mr. Sette said the organization's consuming nations, which include the U.S. and all western European countries, indicated they would be ready to consider extra measures if they thought the situation justified them.
  6. The drug bill, which Parliament is expected to pass in September, imposes fines for consuming narcotics in public, discarding syringes or allowing drug use in public places like bars and discos.
  7. "In the past few months there has been an enormous transfer of wealth from the many oil consuming nations, including the United States, to the few oil producing nations," Lieberman said.
  8. Japan has hoarded crude oil in the months following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, despite agreement among most consuming nations to draw down stockpiles and ease supply problems, a senior Energy Department official claims.
  9. Packer also admitted to consuming the remains of the five men in order to survive.
  10. The idea would be to halt directives deemed to damage businesses' ability to compete internationally. Investing - not consuming - the 'recovery dividend'.
  11. By consuming both the steam and the electricity, an industrial or commercial concern has a built-in efficiency advantage over traditional power plants, which simply vent their steam.
  12. But the oilmen may get short shrift from an administration enjoying the macro-economic tonic of low oil prices. It is no surprise that consuming countries are winners from low oil prices while producers feel the pain.
  13. 'Supplying this information will be a time consuming task, and the penalties for any mistakes could be severe,' he said.
  14. Palladin was one of 34 witnesses Tuesday at a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing in a debate over whether calves destined to become cuts of milk-fed veal ought to spend their short lives in a freer state consuming more than just liquid.
  15. The Virginia Department of Health advised in May against consuming fish caught from the river near Front Royal.
  16. The major wool consuming countries have expressed for stockpile disposal caused particular anxienty, but the Australian Government has only relented to the extent of postponing their introduction until July 1994.
  17. Horseradish eaten during traditional Passover dinners can pose a health hazard, says a Jewish doctor whose father collapsed after consuming an olive-sized serving of the bitter herb.
  18. But James C. Sanders, president of the Beer Institute, said that the Surgeon General's attack had become an annual harbinger of the Halloween season and that there was no indication that more minors were consuming alcoholic spirits.
  19. "No success is possible if the consuming countries do not achieve a substantial reduction in demand," he said.
  20. The researchers said many smokers may fail to quit smoking because they inadvertently render the nicotine gum ineffective by consuming slightly acidic food and drinks at the same time they chew the gum.
  21. Moreover, he notes that Anheuser-Busch has spent millions on its "Know When to Say When" ad campaign, designed to foster responsibility among the consuming public.
  22. It sees only half the equation, people consuming valuable resources, and gives no thought to the nature of resources themselves or their relation to the people that ultimately create and give them value.
  23. The microbes then kill the crickets by consuming body fat.
  24. Abraham Van Oberbeeke, the Dutch spokesman for consuming nations, called the result a "milestone."
  25. There were no indications that representatives of producing and consuming nations at the organization's talks in London over the past week are any closer to finding a means to counter excessive supplies on the market, analysts said.
  26. The task was time consuming because a maze of structures, pipes, wiring and other materials had to be moved out of the way in the cramped aft section of the orbiter before workers from engine-maker Rocketdyne could get to the faulty valve.
  27. "Prices will undoubtedly go higher, possibly reaching $40 to $50 per barrel in the absence of action by consuming nations," said Philip Verleger, an oil analyst for the Institute of International Economics.
  28. Once assembled, the army ate him out of house and home, consuming up to 10,000 pounds of hay and 700 pounds of corn a day.
  29. "It's time consuming, and it also costs money," says Kenneth Sheridan, president of the mortgage banking unit of Southeast Banking Corp. in Miami.
  30. Celeste Georgakis, senior analyst at Cargill Investor Services, added that large coffee stocks in consuming countries continue to hold down prices.
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