What does spout mean?
Definitions for spout
spaʊtspout
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Princeton's WordNet
spoutverb
an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
spurt, spirt, gush, spoutverb
gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
"water gushed forth"
rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, raveverb
talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
Wiktionary
spoutnoun
a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged
I dropped my china teapot, and its spout has broken.
spoutnoun
a stream of liquid
spoutnoun
the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale
spoutverb
to gush forth in a stream
spoutverb
to speak tediously
Etymology: Compare Swedish spruta a squirt, a syringe.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Spoutnoun
Etymology: from spuyt, Dutch.
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.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.
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.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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
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
Spoutverb
to utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner
Spoutverb
to pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch
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
Spoutverb
to eject water or liquid in a jet
Spoutverb
to utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner
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
Spoutverb
a trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle
Spoutverb
a discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout
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 Dictionary
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 Terms
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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The numerical value of spout in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
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The numerical value of spout in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of spout in a Sentence
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.
The challenge with new language models is they blend fact and fiction, it spreads misinformation effectively. It cannot understand the content. So it can spout out completely logical sounding content, but incorrect. And it delivers it with complete confidence.
There is not a mayor in this country that is happy with the pace of change, including me, there's so much incentive to spout off a magic wand fix that doesn't exist. These are issues that are systemic and can't be solved with a hashtag or a catchphrase or even a single policy because the causes are so deeply rooted. ... It takes work and time.
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.
Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.
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- صنبورArabic
- raig, brollador, brocCatalan, Valencian
- speien, Tülle, spritzenGerman
- στόμιοGreek
- pico, chorro, chorrearSpanish
- vesipatsas, suihkuttaa, jaaritella, vesisuihku, kaatonokka, nokka, suihku, syöstä, paasataFinnish
- jaillir, bec verseur, siphonFrench
- spúaIcelandic
- beccuccio, zampillare, getto, sgorgareItalian
- 噴出口, 噴射, 噴き出す, 噴くJapanese
- 주둥이Korean
- canālisLatin
- kōrere, pupuhaMāori
- wylew, dzióbek, rozwodzić się, lać sięPolish
- bicaPortuguese
- pukyuy, ch'iwkachiyQuechua
- [[выбра́сывать]] [[струя, фонта́н, разглаго́льствовать, [[вы́бросить]] [[струя, но́сик, бры́згать, [[заби́ть]] [[струя, [[бить]] [[струя, хлы́нуть, го́рлышко, струя́, пото́к, струи́тьсяRussian
- pip, hällpipSwedish
- พวยThai
- emzikTurkish
- Vòi phunVietnamese
- 喷口Chinese
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