英语词汇“spout”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	spout
释义	spout I. \ˈspau̇t, usu -au̇d.+V\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English spouten; akin to Middle Dutch spoiten to spout, Middle High German spiuzen to spit, Old Norse spȳta to spit, spȳja to spew — more at spew *transitive verb* 1. : to throw out (as liquid, vapor, granulated material, tiny objects) in a stream : eject in a jet < gleaming metal faucet that spouted clear water — Julian Dana > < farmhouse windows spouted flame and smoke — F.V.W.Mason > < wells spouted 200 barrels an hour — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < chewing snuff or spouting the brown residue into a tin pail — Earle Birney > — often used with out < machines of steel which spout out pins by the hundred million — G.B.Shaw > < causing the clams … to spout out tiny streams of water — American Guide Series: Maine > 2. : to speak or utter readily, volubly, and at length < fairly spouted technicalities — C.S.Forester > < spouted French like a Frenchman > < every cabdriver in town can spout facts and gossip — John Durant > often : to speak or utter in a pompous, oratorical, or grandiloquent manner : declaim < custom of these judges to spout extravagant … harangues from the bench — C.G.Bowers > < spouting Latin invective — F.L.Windolph > < always goes around spouting Shakespeare > < spouts tag ends of wisdom — Leslie Rees > 3. [spout (II) ] archaic : pawn 4. [spout (II) ] : to fit or furnish with a spout < had the roof repaired and the eaves spouted > < teapot poured badly, had not been properly spouted > *intransitive verb* 1. : to issue with force in a strong stream or jet (as of liquid or other material discharged violently through a narrow opening) : spurt < oil was spouting from Western lands — Van Wyck Brooks > < foamy bloody mucus spouted from her mouth and nose — Grace Reiten > < illuminated by flaming jets which seemed to spout from the trees — John Reed > < pure like a bubbling spring, a fountain spouting out — F.N.Souza > 2. : to eject liquid or other material in a jet < geyser was spouting freely > < waves were spouting high on the granite cliffs — C.L.Barrett > < he'd shy each time a clam spouted — G.W.Brace > specifically : blow 5b 3. : to talk or speak volubly or at length especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner : declaim < gave radio concerts, and politicians spouted into the strange instruments — F.L.Allen > < spout about science and rationalism — Harold Strauss > II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English spoute; akin to Middle Dutch spoite spout, Middle English spouten to spout 1. : a tube, pipe, or conductor through which a liquid is discharged or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another: as a. (1) : a pipe (as in a gargoyle) for carrying off water from the roof of a building (2) : downspout (3) : gutter 2a — usually used in plural b. : the part of a fountain or pump from which water issues c. (1) : a projecting tube or lip for guiding the flow of a liquid poured from a receptacle < broke the spout off the teapot > < soldered a new spout on the watering can > (2) : a hollow metal device inserted in a hole bored in a maple tree to conduct the sap into a detachable pail d. : blowhole 2 e. : nozzle 2. a. : a discharge or jet of water or other fluid matter from or as if from a pipe especially when ejected with some violence or when rising in a column < surging uprush of invisible spouts of warm air — William Beebe > as (1) : waterspout; also : a downpour of rain (2) : a spring of water (3) : the blowing of a whale b. : something appearing as if spouted out < a solitary dark spout of smoke — Eric Linklater > < violent spouts and gusts of burning oil — Nevil Shute > < a rising spout of debate on guns versus butter — Fortune > < a spout of blasphemies — G.K.Chesterton > 3. also spout fish : razor clam 4. a. : a usually enclosed trough or chute for conducting bulk materials (as flour, grain) to or from a receptacle b. : a trough for conducting molten metal from a furnace to a ladle c. (1) : a shoot or lift formerly used in a pawnbroker's shop for transferring pawned articles (2) archaic : pawnshop 5. : something resembling or suggestive of a spout on a roof or the spout of a vessel (as in discharging a liquid or in being in the shape of a pipe or a lip) < eyes became two spouts — Shakespeare > < nest high up in the hollow spout of the big fire-blackened gum — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > 6. : a rush of water to a lower level : cascade, waterfall • - up the spout
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