different between spout vs drain
spout
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)
- A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
- I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
- A stream of liquid.
- 2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood (page 160)
- A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.
- 2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood (page 160)
- 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)
- (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
- Water spouts from a hole.
- (transitive, intransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
- The whale spouted.
- 1697, Thomas Creech, The Whale
- The mighty whale […] spouts the tide.
- (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
- (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
- Pray, spout some French, son.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.
- to spout a watch
Translations
Anagrams
- POTUS, USPTO, pouts, putos, stoup, tupos, upsot
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drain
English
Alternative forms
- drein (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English dreinen, from Old English dr?ahnian (“to drain, strain, filter”), from Proto-Germanic *drauhn?n? (“to strain, sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, parched”). Akin to Old English dr?gian (“to dry up”), Old English dr?gaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English dr??e (“dry”). More at dry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?e?n/, IPA(key): /d??e?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
drain (plural drains)
- (chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- (chiefly Britain) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- (vulgar) An act of urination.
- (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (pinball) An outhole.
- (Britain, slang, dated) A drink.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes
- When the play was over, we came out together, and I said, "We've been very companionable and agreeable, and perhaps you wouldn't object to a drain?"
- 1966, Henry Mayhew, ?Peter Quennell, London's Underworld (page 48)
- What did she want with money, except now and then for a drain of white satin.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
drain (third-person singular simple present drains, present participle draining, simple past and past participle drained)
- (intransitive) To lose liquid.
- The clogged sink drained slowly.
- Knock knock.
Who's there?
Dwayne.
Dwayne who?
Drain the bathtub, I'm drowning.
- (intransitive) To flow gradually.
- The water of low ground drains off.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.
- Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.
- (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
- They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
- (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
- The stress of this job is really draining me.
- (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
- (transitive, obsolete) To filter.
- (intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
Derived terms
- drainable
- drainage
- drain away
- draining (adjective)
- drain out
- drain the lizard (vulgar)
- drain the main vain
Descendants
- ? French: drainer (see there for further descendants)
Translations
Anagrams
- Darin, Drina, Indra, Nadir, Nardi, Ndari, Radin, dinar, nadir, ranid
Cimbrian
Numeral
drain
- dative of drai
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