Definitions for spout
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spoutverb

   an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain

2. spurt, spirt, gush, spoutverb

   gush forth in a sudden stream or jet

   "water gushed forth"

3. rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, raveverb

   talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spoutnoun

   a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged

   I dropped my china teapot, and its spout has broken.

2. spoutnoun

   a stream of liquid

3. spoutnoun

   the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale

4. spoutverb

   to gush forth in a stream

5. spoutverb

   to speak tediously

6. Etymology: Compare Swedish spruta a squirt, a syringe.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spoutnoun

   Etymology: from spuyt, Dutch.

   1. A pipe, or mouth of a pipe or vessel out of which any thing is poured.

   She gasping to begin some speech, her eyes
   Became two spouts. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   In whales that breathe, lest the water should get unto the lungs, an ejection thereof is contrived by a fistula or spout at the head. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

   If you chance it to lack,
   Be it claret or sack,
   I’ll make this snout
   To deal it about,
   Or this to run out,
   As it were from a spout. Ben Jonson.

   As waters did in storms, now pitch runs out,
   As lead, when a fir’d church becomes one spout. John Donne.

   In Gaza they couch vessels of earth in their walls to gather the wind from the top, and to pass it down in spouts into rooms. Francis Bacon.

   Let the water be fed by some higher than the pool, and delivered into it by fair spouts, and then discharged by some equality of bores that it stay little. Francis Bacon.

   In this single cathedral the very spouts are loaded with ornaments. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide,
   And China’s earth receives the smoking tide. Alexander Pope.

   2. Water falling in a body; a cataract, such as is seen in the hot climates when clouds sometimes discharge all their water at once.

   Not the dreadful spout,
   Which shipmen do the hurricano call,
   Constring’d in mass by the almighty sun,
   Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune’s ear
   In his descent, than shall my prompted sword
   Falling on Diomede. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.

   The force of these motions pressing more in some places than in others, there would fall not showers, but great spouts or cascades of water. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

2. To Spoutverb

   To pour with violence, or in a collected body as from a spout.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   We will bear home that lusty blood again,
   Which here we came to spout against your town. William Shakespeare.

   I intend two fountains, the one that sprinkleth or spouteth water, the other a fair receipt of water. Francis Bacon.

   She swims in blood, and blood does spouting throw
   To heav’n, that heav’n mens cruelties might know. Edmund Waller.

   Next on his belly floats the mighty whale;
   He twists his back, and rears his threatning tail:
   He spouts the tide. Thomas Creech.

3. To Spoutverb

   To issue as from a spout.

   They laid them down hard by the murmuring musick of certain waters, which spouted out of the side of the hills. Philip Sidney.

   No hands cou’d force it thence, so fixt it stood,
   Till out it rush’d, expell’d by streams of spouting blood. Dryd.

   It spouts up out of deep wells, and flies forth at the tops of them, upon the face of the ground. John Woodward.

   All the glittering hill
   Is bright with spouting rills. James Thomson, Autumn.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spout

   A spout is a small opening or tube-like structure through which liquid can be poured or through which it can flow out. It's typically found on teapots, jugs, pitchers or similar containers. In terms of waterspouts or spouts in natural settings, it generally refers to pressurized flow of water or other fluids from a particular source.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spoutverb

   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. Spoutverb

   to utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner

3. Spoutverb

   to pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch

4. Spoutverb

   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. Spoutverb

   to eject water or liquid in a jet

6. Spoutverb

   to utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner

7. Spoutverb

   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. Spoutverb

   a trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle

9. Spoutverb

   a discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout

10. Etymology: [Cf. Sw. sputa, spruta, to spout, D. spuit a spout, spuiten to spout, and E. spurt, sprit, v., sprout, sputter; or perhaps akin to E. spit to eject from the mouth.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spout

   spowt, v.t. to throw out, as from a pipe: to utter volubly: to pawn, pledge.—v.i. to issue with violence, as from a pipe: to speak volubly, to speechify.—n. the projecting mouth of a vessel from which a stream issues: a pipe for conducting a liquid: a term applied to the blowing or breathing of whales and other cetaceans.—ns. Spout′er, one who, or that which, spouts: a speechifier: a South Sea whale, a skilful whaler; Spout′-hole, an orifice for discharging a liquid, a whale's spiracle.—adj. Spout′less, wanting a spout. [Skeat explains that spout, like speak, has lost an r, thus standing for sprout, the r being preserved in spurt, with nearly the same sense as spout. Sw. sputa for spruta, to squirt; Dut. spuiten.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spout

   A term applied to the blowing or breathing of whales and other cetaceans. The expired air, highly charged with moisture from the lungs, has frequently been mistaken for a stream of water. (See also WATER-SPOUT.)

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Anagrams for spout »

1. POTUS

2. pouts

3. stoup

4. tupos

5. upsot

6. USPTO

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of spout in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of spout in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of spout in a Sentence

1. Hillary Clinton:

   You encouraged espionage against our people. You are willing to spout the Russian President Vladimir Putin line, sign up for Russian President Vladimir Putin wish list : break up NATO, do whatever Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to do, you continue to get help from Russian President Vladimir Putin because Russian President Vladimir Putin has a very clear favorite in this race.

2. Ilhan Omar:

   The truth is that Islamophobia pervades our culture, our politics and even policy decisions, leading politicians in the Republican Party routinely spout hateful rhetoric about a religion that includes a diverse group of more than a billion peaceful worshipers around the world. This includes falsely claiming Muslims want to replace the Constitution and implement Sharia law, portraying Muslims as inherently violent.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   You encouraged espionage against President Putin and Russia people. You are willing to spout the Vladimir Putin line, sign up for Vladimir Putin wish list : break up NATO, do whatever Vladimir Putin wants to do, you continue to get help from Vladimir Putin because Vladimir Putin has a very clear favorite in this race.

4. Elie Honig:

   Whether it's Alex Jones or Rudy Giuliani or a 2020 election denier, it's one thing to spout conspiracy theories on a podcast or social media, but courts demand actual facts and evidence. And, importantly, courts can and will impose accountability and punish people who spread lies for illegal purposes.

5. Curt Levey of the Committee:

   It might have been enough before today for presidential candidates to spout the usual things about appointing someone who interprets rather than writes the law. I think you’ll have to say more now, each candidate will have to do something to show the base how they will avoid appointing another Roberts.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=spout
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Spout
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=spout
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spout
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=spout
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=spout