Definitions of spout [ʊt]

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Definition of 'spout'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) spout
to discharge in a stream or jet:
volcanoes spouting ash and lava.

2.  spout
to state or declaim volubly or in a pompous manner:
spouting theories on foreign policy.

3. (v.i.) spout
to issue in a jet or continuous stream.

4.  spout
to issue forth with force, as liquid through a narrow orifice.

5.  spout
to speak volubly or pompously.

6. (n.) spout
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.

7.  spout
a trough or shoot for discharging or conveying grain, flour, etc.

8.  spout
a continuous stream of material discharged from or as if from a pipe.

9.  spout
a spring of water.

10.  spout
Archaic.

Etymology: (1300–50; (v.) ME, akin to D spuiten, ON sp&ymacr;ta to spit¹; (n.) ME spowt(e) pipe, akin to the n.)

Definition of 'spout'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) spout
an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain

2. (verb) spurt, spirt, gush, spout
gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
"water gushed forth"

3. (verb) rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave
talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

Definition of 'spout'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) spout
a tube on a container that you pour liquid out of
the spout on the watering can

2. (verb) spout
to force liquid out in a powerful stream
a volcano spouting lava

3. spout
to say a lot in a way that is annoying
He was spouting his usual political garbage.; Let her spout off - nobody's listening anyway.

Definition of 'spout'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) spout
to throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk

2. (verb) spout
to utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner

3. (verb) spout
to pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch

4. (verb) spout
to issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery

5. (verb) spout
to eject water or liquid in a jet

6. (verb) spout
to utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner

7. (verb) spout
that through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building

8. (verb) spout
a trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle

9. (verb) spout
a discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout

Translation of 'spout'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to throw out or be thrown out in a jet Water spouted from the hole in the tank.
Afrikaans: spuit	Arabic: يَنْبَجِس، يَنْطَلِق، يَن	Bulgarian: струя
Brazilian: jorrar	Czech: stříkat	German: herausspritzen
Danish: sprøjte ud	Greek: αναβλύζω, ξεχύνομαι	Estonian: purskama
Farsi: فوران كردن	Finnish: suihkuttaa, suihkuta	French: jaillir (de)
Hebrew: לִפרוֹץ	Hindi: फुहारे की भांति छूटना, छो	Croatian: izbacivati, rigati mlazom
Hungarian: (ki)lövell	Indonesian: menyemprot	Icelandic: spúa, sprauta
Italian: scaturire, sgorgare	Japanese: 吹き出す	Korean: 내뿜다
Lithuanian: čiurkšti	Latvian: []šļākt; []šļākties	Malay: menyembur
Dutch: spuiten	Norwegian: sprute, blåse	Polish: tryskać
Portuguese: jorrar	Romanian: aţâşni (din)	Russian: бить струёй
Slovak: striekať	Slovenian: (iz)brizgati	Serbian: šikljati
Swedish: spruta [ut]	Thai: พ่น	Turkish: fışkır(t)mak
Taiwanese: 噴出	Ukrainian: бити струменем; литися по	Urdu: پچکاری سے دھار نکالنا یا
Vietnamese: phun ra, bắn ra	Chinese: 喷出
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