spout

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
    — I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
  2. A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
  3. A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
    — A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.
  4. A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
    — […] the river rushes over the Auchinlilie Lin or Spout, a tremendous chataract^([sic]); after which it proceeds in a more quiet course, and is navigable to the village of Carron Shore.
  5. A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
    — The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up.
  6. A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
    — He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea.
  7. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
  8. A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off. Australia
动词 v.
  1. To gush forth in a jet or stream intransitive
    — Water spouts from a hole.
  2. To eject water or liquid in a jet. ambitransitive
    — The whale spouted.
  3. To speak tediously or pompously. intransitive
  4. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. transitive
    — Pray, spout some French, son.
  5. To pawn; to pledge. dated,slang,transitive
    — to spout a watch

词形变化

spouts plural spouts present,singular,third-person spouting participle,present spouted participle,past spouted past

词汇关系

衍生词
aspout bespout downspout landspout lick spout outspout rainspout sandspout spouter spoutfish spouthole spoutless spoutlike sputter upspout up the spout waterspout spout off spout out
并列词
nozzle

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew.
词源 2
From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew.
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