Definitions for sucking
suck·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 3 votes

1. sucking, suck, suctionnoun

   the act of sucking

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1. sucking

   Suction is the colloquial term to describe the air pressure differential between areas. Removing air from a space results in a pressure differential. Suction pressure is therefore limited by external air pressure. Even a perfect vacuum cannot suck with more pressure than is available in the surrounding environment. Suctions can form on the sea, for example, when a ship founders. When the pressure in one part of a physical system is reduced relative to another, the fluid in the higher pressure region will exert a force relative to the region of lowered pressure, referred to as pressure-gradient force. Pressure reduction may be static, as in a piston and cylinder arrangement, or dynamic, as in the case of a vacuum cleaner when air flow results in a reduced pressure region. When animals breathe, the diaphragm and muscles around the rib cage cause a change of volume in the lungs. The increased volume of the chest cavity decreases the pressure inside, creating an imbalance with the ambient air pressure, resulting in suction.

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1. Sucking

   of Suck

2. Suckingadjective

   drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:3.3 / 4 votes

1. sucking

   The action of the pump when the well is nearly dry, or at least so low at the pump-foot as to admit air.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sucking in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sucking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of sucking in a Sentence

1. Karl Marx:

   Capital is dead labor, which, ampire-like, Iives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

2. Andrew MacGinnitie:

   It's possible that sucking on a pacifier is correlated with other, more important factors that predispose or protect against allergens.

3. Al Gore:

   We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth, that’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees.

4. Larry Hardiman:

   The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

5. Steve Hilton:

   This is one of the worst national humiliations we've seen since we went cap in hand to the IMF in the 1970s, the truth is that China is a rogue state just as bad as Russia or Iran, and I just don't understand why we're sucking up to them rather than standing up to them as we should be.

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