different between spout vs sparger
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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sparger
English
Etymology
From sparge +? -er or equivalent. Compare French asperger (“to sprinkle”), Latin aspergere, spargere.
Noun
sparger (plural spargers)
- A vessel with a perforated cover for sprinkling a liquid.
- (chemistry) A device for sparging, or introducing bubbles.
- 2004, Yin Sun, Detection Technologies for Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Vapors (page 92)
- More importantly, the use of the delta tube prevents dangerous backsplashing of the agent that can occur when an impinging sparger is used improperly.
- 2004, Yin Sun, Detection Technologies for Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Vapors (page 92)
Anagrams
- grasper, regrasp
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