different between blowhole vs spout

English

Etymology

blow +? hole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl??h??l/

Noun

blowhole (plural blowholes)

1. The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe.
2. A vent for the escape of gas.
3. A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled.
4. (metallurgy) An unintended cavity filled with air in a casting product.
5. (computer hardware) A vertical opening in the top of computer cases, that let hot air, primarily from the CPU heat sink, escape quickly.

Translations

Verb

blowhole (third-person singular simple present blowholes, present participle blowholing, simple past and past participle blowholed)

1. (metallurgy, transitive, intransitive) To fill or be filled with air in an unintended cavity.

English

Etymology

From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from *sp?watjan?. Compare Swedish spruta a squirt, a syringe. See also spit, spew.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /sp??t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

spout (plural spouts)

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 stream of liquid.
   • 2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood (page 160)

     A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.

3. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.

Coordinate terms

• (tube through which liquid is discharged): nozzle

Translations

Verb

spout (third-person singular simple present spouts, present participle spouting, simple past and past participle spouted)

1. (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream

   Water spouts from a hole.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.

   The whale spouted.

   • 1697, Thomas Creech, The Whale

     The mighty whale […] spouts the tide.

3. (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
4. (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

   • Pray, spout some French, son.

5. (transitive, slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.

   to spout a watch

Translations

Anagrams

• POTUS, USPTO, pouts, putos, stoup, tupos, upsot