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spill
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)
- (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
- (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
- He was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.
- (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- 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.
- 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
- That thou wilt suffer innocence to spill.
- (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
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- (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.
- 2007, Eric Flint, ?David Weber, 1634: The Baltic War
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- (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.
- (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- (transitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- (of a knot) To come undone.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
spill (plural spills)
- (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
- A fall or stumble.
- The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
- 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.
- 2008, Elizabeth Bear, Ink and Steel: A Novel of the Promethean Age:
- A slender piece of anything.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- (obsolete) A small sum of money.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ayliffe to this entry?)
- (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
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Luxembourgish
Verb
spill
- second-person singular imperative of spillen
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English spillan.
Verb
spill
- 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)
- 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.)
- play, playing
- ballen er ute av spill - the ball is out of play
- gambling; card-playing
- musical instrument (in compounds such as trekkspill (“accordion”))
- stage play
- flickering, play, sparkling (of flames, lights, colors, eyes, a smile)
Derived terms
See also
- spel (Nynorsk)
Etymology 2
Verb
spill
- imperative of spille
References
- “spill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
spill n
- waste, unusable surplus material
- a spill (a mess of something spilled, dropped or leaked)
Declension
Verb
spill
- imperative of spilla.
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bleed
English
Etymology
From Middle English bleden, from Old English bl?dan (“to bleed”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?þijan? (“to bleed”), from *bl?þ? (“blood”). Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bli?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
Verb
bleed (third-person singular simple present bleeds, present participle bleeding, simple past and past participle bled)
- (intransitive, of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
- (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
- (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
- (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
- (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
- (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
- (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
- And so Sir Trystrames bledde bothe the over-shete and the neyther-shete, and the pylowes and the hede-shete
- (intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
- To lose sap, gum, or juice.
- To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
- (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
- (publishing, advertising, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
- 1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising (page 35)
- Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]
- 2004, Dorothy A. Bowles, ?Diane L. Borden, Creative Editing (page 361)
- Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.
- 1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising (page 35)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
bleed (plural bleeds)
- An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
- (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
- (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- bleed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- bleed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Lebed, bedel, debel
Plautdietsch
Adjective
bleed
- shy, coy
- modest
- withdrawn
- timid, reticent, reluctant
Derived terms
- Bleedheit
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