Sy Montgomery

To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.

American Writer

Tom Robbins

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

American Author

Oksana Masters

I wear my prosthetics legs every day, and when I train in the gym, I call them my Lamborghini, because both legs and sockets, which extend up to my hips to keep the legs on via a suction seal, cost about $305,815.

American Athlete

Barbara Corcoran

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

American Businesswoman

Robin Wright

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

American Actress

Suction as a force often involves a physical action that causes a vacuum.

Physical Action

Suction happens even when you can't see the force, like in syringes or toilets.

Not Always Visible

Don't confuse 'suction' with 'adhesion'; suction involves vacuum force, not sticky surfaces.

Common Misuse

As a verb, 'suction' implies that a vacuum is created to exert the pulling force.

Creating Vacuum

When used as a verb, it usually suggests movement towards the source of vacuum.

Direction Specific

In medical settings, 'suction' is precise, often to remove unwanted substances.

Medical Precision

Referring to medical instruments, 'suction' implies a device designed for specific health-related functions.

Medical Device

When used in its medical sense, it often appears in technical discussions or healthcare settings.

Technical Context

In dental or surgical contexts, 'suction' is used to maintain cleanliness and visibility.

Hygiene Focus

 it supported his idea that weight was the deciding factor. A variation on the experiment used two tubes with one having a large bubble at the top. If Galileo's interpretation had been correct, the bigger vacuum in the second tube should have exerted more suction and lifted the mercury higher. But the level in both tubes was the same.

The history of the...

 pretty snug to its customer in order to suck away the liquid waste to a separate tank suction is the key it sounds like suction is very very important making sure that the material gets taken away and into the commode and doesn't create a problem in the cabinet so one thing that helps us is our checklist why don't

Space Toilet PIPE Known...

 for all sorts of purposes. That includes vacuum-packed food that stays fresh longer, and the vacuums inside early light bulbs that protected filaments from degrading. These vacuums are generally created with some version of what a vacuum cleaner does using high-powered pumps that create enough suction

Is it possible to create...

 So blood shift -- how does it work? The capillaries in the lungs become engorged with blood -- which is caused by the suction -- so the lungs can harden and protect the whole chest cavity from being crushed. It prevents the two walls of the lungs from collapsing,

The Exhilarating Peace...

 Sperm whales use echolocation to hunt these squid for food, but even against this gigantic animal, squid can put up an impressive fight. Scientists know this because on the bodies of washed-up whales, they frequently find huge, round suction scars,

How squids outsmart...

 door get into any room you'd have a body unlike any other on earth if you get hungry you could use one of your 240 suction cups to grab a meal no matter how many yoga classes a human takes he'll never be this flexible

Octopus Squeeze PIPE...

 inching its way up by alternately attaching the suction cups on its mouth and pelvic fins. To find water while on land, the mummichog, like most amphibious fishes, is on the lookout for reflective surfaces.

The fish that walk on...

 was poking the stick beside where the suction is sitting and I think it's getting buried and mother yeah this pretty deep Dennis tries to lift the

Thirsty Beast PIPE Yukon...

 using the mouth to mouth such suction which was unheard of during that period and evidently had helped he was captured at that battle

Children of U.S. Civil...

 his cavernous jaws create a suction effect when he strikes he swallows his prey whole