different between spout vs sprinkler
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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sprinkler
English
Etymology
sprinkle +? -er
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?sp?i?kl?/
Noun
sprinkler (plural sprinklers)
- Anything that sprinkles.
- An irrigation device that sprays water into the air whilst moving back and forth.
- A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.
- Coordinate terms: drencher, fire extinguisher
- (preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer places one hand on the head behind the ear, with elbow bent, stretches the other arm forwards and mimics the motions of an irrigation sprinkler with a rotary head.
Translations
Verb
sprinkler (third-person singular simple present sprinklers, present participle sprinklering, simple past and past participle sprinklered)
- (transitive) To fit with automatic sprinklers for fire prevention.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English sprinkler
Noun
sprinkler m (definite singular sprinkleren, indefinite plural sprinklere, definite plural sprinklerne)
- (firefighting) a sprinkler
See also
- sprinklar (Nynorsk)
References
- “sprinkler” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From English sprinkler.
Noun
sprinkler n (plural sprinklere)
- sprinkler
Declension
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- what sprinkler should i buy
- what sprinklers should i use
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