different between emission vs spout

English

Etymology

First attested in 1607. From Middle French émission, from Latin ?missi? (“sending forth”), from ?mitt? (“send out”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mitt? (“send”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??m???n/, /??m??n?/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

emission (countable and uncountable, plural emissions)

1. Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.

2. The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.

Synonyms

• (act of sending out): issuance

Hyponyms

• nocturnal emission

Derived terms

• zero-emission

Related terms

• emission line
• emission nebula
• emissions test
• emit

Translations

References

• emission in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Misiones, simonies, simonise

Finnish

Noun

emission

1. Genitive singular form of emissio.

Friulian

Noun

emission f (plural emissions)

1. emission

Interlingua

Noun

emission (plural emissiones)

1. emission

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ?missi?.

Noun

emission f (plural emissions)

1. emission

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emi?sju?/

Noun

emission f

1. emission

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