different between plunge vs spill

English

Etymology

From Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative to throw a leaded line, from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Verb

plunge (third-person singular simple present plunges, present participle plunging, simple past and past participle plunged)

1. (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.

2. (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.

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4. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
5. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.

6. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
7. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
   • 1654, Joseph Hall, Select Thoughts, or Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit

     some wild colt, which […] flings and plunges

8. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
9. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

Translations

Noun

plunge (plural plunges)

1. the act of plunging or submerging
2. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)

   to take the water with a plunge

   A plunge into the sea

3. (dated) A swimming pool
4. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
5. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
6. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty

Translations

References

• plunge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “plunge”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• pungle

English

Etymology

From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijan? (“to spoil, kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”).

Cognate with Dutch spillen (“to use needlessly, waste”), French gaspiller ("to waste, squander" < Germanic), Bavarian spillen (“to split, cleave, splinter”), Danish spille (“to spill, waste”), Swedish spilla (“to spill, waste”), Icelandic spilla (“to contaminate, spoil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Verb

spill (third-person singular simple present spills, present participle spilling, simple past and past participle spilled or spilt)

1. (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.

2. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.

   • He was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.

3. (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
4. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
   • 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie

     They [the colours] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.

   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     Spill not the morning (the quintessence of day) in recreations.

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

   • That thou wilt suffer innocence to spill.

6. (transitive) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     to revenge his blood so justly spilt

7. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
   • 2007, Eric Flint, ?David Weber, 1634: The Baltic War

     Then, not thirty feet beyond, a sudden panicky lunge to the side by his horse spilled him from the saddle.

8. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
9. (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
10. (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
11. (transitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.

12. (of a knot) To come undone.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

spill (plural spills)

1. (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
2. A fall or stumble.

   The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.

3. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
   • 2008, Elizabeth Bear, Ink and Steel: A Novel of the Promethean Age:

     Kit froze with the pipe between his teeth, the relit spill pressed to the weed within it.

4. A slender piece of anything.
   1. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
   2. A metallic rod or pin.
5. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
6. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
7. (obsolete) A small sum of money.

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8. (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:spill.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• pills

Gothic

Romanization

spill

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Luxembourgish

Verb

spill

1. second-person singular imperative of spillen

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English spillan.

Verb

spill

1. Alternative form of spillen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• spell

Etymology 1

From the verb spille

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

spill n (definite singular spillet, indefinite plural spill, definite plural spilla or spillene)

1. a game (or part of a game, e.g., a hand, a round); equipment for a game (e.g., deck of cards, set of dice, board, men, pieces, etc.)
2. play, playing

   ballen er ute av spill - the ball is out of play

3. gambling; card-playing
4. musical instrument (in compounds such as trekkspill (“accordion”))
5. stage play
6. flickering, play, sparkling (of flames, lights, colors, eyes, a smile)

Derived terms

See also

• spel (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Verb

spill

1. imperative of spille

References

• “spill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

spill n

1. waste, unusable surplus material
2. a spill (a mess of something spilled, dropped or leaked)

Declension

Verb

spill

1. imperative of spilla.