| 单词 | spout |
| 释义 | spout (once / 1264 pages) vn 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 FAMILYspout: spouted, spouter, spouting, spouts+/spouter: spouters USAGE EXAMPLESPrime 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 blowspout moist air from the blowhole whooshgush 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, nozzlea projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged showerheada perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather opening a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made |
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