Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of evacuating or the condition of being evacuated.
- n. Physiology Discharge of waste materials from the excretory passages of the body, especially from the bowels.
- n. Physiology The material so discharged.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of evacuating or exhausting; the act of emptying or clearing of contents; clearance by removal or withdrawal, as of an army or garrison: as, the evacuation of the bowels; the evacuation of a theater, or of a besieged town.
- n. A diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means; depletion.
- n. Abolition.
- n. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means: as, dark-colored evacuations.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
- n. Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
- n. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- n. The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
- n. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
- n. Abolition; nullification.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.
- n. (Mil.) Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc.
- n. (Med.) Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- n. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
- n. obsolete Abolition; nullification.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- n. the act of removing the contents of something
- n. the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
Examples
“This is the first time I am using the term 'evacuation,' " the governor said, the Associated Press reported.”
The Wall Street Journal: Bangkok Evacuates Two Flooding Districts
“This is the first time I am using the term 'evacuation,' the first time I'm really asking you to leave," Sukhumbhand said.”
“This is the first time I am using the term evacuation, the first time I'm really asking you to leave.”
“When you hear the word 'evacuation center,' you have little flashes of bad things from movies," said Ms. Gonzalez, who lives in Coney Island, one of the low-lying areas in that were under the city's mandatory evacuation order.”
“Typhoons aside, the word "evacuation" is one with which Japan has been increasingly forced to familiarise itself over the past six months due to other unrelated but significantly more deadly natural disasters.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“He said that what he called "evacuation theology," or the idea that "Jesus is your ticket to somewhere else," is dangerous because it can cause people to miss Christ's message about how to live in such harmony with God that you are creating a heaven on Earth.”
“The next section covers what we call the evacuation and rescue, that if a train does get stuck in a tunnel, what are the learning points and what needs to be done?”
“An association for Tamils in Switzerland, the Tamil Forum, released a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemning what it called the evacuation of civilians in Sri Lanka and their placing in "army detention camps".”
“The evac insurance with Triple AAA also covers a certain amount for evacuation from the country if the State Department should issue a warning that US citizens return to their home country.”
“The evacuation is not the intended or directly willed result, but the side effect, of some legitimate procedure.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘evacuation’.
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Air Travel
This list started with me looking up 'non revs' as a friend in the travel industry posted a cartoon about 'non rev' travel... and hey, non rev needed a list.
non-rev, terminal, arrival, takeoff, landing, taxi-ing, runway, IATA, plane, departure, airplane, jet and 106 more...
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SEDE - military operations
Iran-Iraq War, prevention, increase of readi..., replacement of wa..., rise of readiness, stabilisation, build up, basic training, defence procurement, force modernisation, full mobilisation, grueling training and 387 more...
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Everything Comes Down to Poo
poop, poo, feces, excrement, shit, crap, dung, droppings, guano, manure, waste, stool and 6 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Words from "The Ghost Map"
"The Ghost Map", by steven Johnson, is a fascinating account of the (successful) investigation by two men, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, into the means by which cholera is transmitted, following t...
ghost map, epidemiology, dot map, voronoi diagram, index case, cholera, experimentum crucis, vibrio cholerae, microbe, germ theory, public health, animalcula and 61 more...
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pynchonesque
fondue, codicil, variorum, blowgun, disk jockey, malfunctioning, convoluted, grabassing, tranquilizers, hieroglyphic, hypodermic, diffusion and 83 more...
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Time
turmoil, evacuation, underscore, spike, truism, heist, inept
Tweets
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