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单词 spout
释义
spout
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A spout is the narrow opening in the edge of a container that makes it easier to neatly pour its contents. A pitcher's spout helps you direct your orange juice into your glass.
Some spouts are indentations or lips, and others — like the spout on a teapot — are tubes. Another meaning of spout is "gush suddenly in a stream." If you filled your teapot too full, tea might spout from its spout. When someone figuratively spouts, she talks in a loud, animated way. The verb form of spout came first, from a Proto-Germanic root that also spawned the Middle Dutch spoiten and the Swedish sputa, both also meaning spout.
WORD FAMILY
spout: spouted, spouter, spouting, spouts+/spouter: spouters
USAGE EXAMPLES
Prime time needs more filthy-dirty, funny songs and way more lead characters whose spouting of gender studies buzzwords is both amusing and right on.
Slate(Dec 22, 2016)
Equipment: a low wooden table in the centre of the room; a black ceramic teapot on the table, steam rising from the spout.
Nature(Dec 07, 2016)
One advantage of being the putative leader of a great nation is that people pay attention, even when you’re spouting nonsense.
The New Yorker(Dec 01, 2016)
1v gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
gush, spirt, spurt
pump
flow intermittently
blow
spout moist air from the blowhole
whoosh
gush or squirt out
pour
flow in a spurt
2v talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
Syn|Hyper
jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave
mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
express in speech
3n an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
Hypo|Hyper
gargoyle
a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
nose, nozzle
a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
showerhead
a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather
opening
a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
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