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Definition of spout in English: spoutnoun spaʊtspaʊt 1A tube or lip projecting from a container, through which liquid can be poured. （盛液体的容器的）嘴 a teapot with a chipped spout 壶嘴有缺口的茶壶。 Example sentencesExamples - Previously, we packaged our product in a paperboard carton that had a pour spout with a screw-on cap.
- I found a used milker inflation tube fits snugly over a 1-quart plastic oil can and makes a pour spout for hard-to-reach transmissions on combines.
- This modern, round building does resemble an upturned funnel with spout mounting to the heavens.
- A good number of dairy manufacturers still use cartons, many of which sport vivid colors and graphics along with convenient closures and spouts.
- Once the boxes are filled, a pour spout is installed on the top of the package.
- ‘Instead of a spout in the center, it is on the corner, making it easier to tip and pour, as opposed to lifting the bottle and turning it on its side to pour,’ says Ayers.
- Paper gable-top cartons are filled and sealed with advanced equipment that uses extended shelf-life technology and has the capability of applying convenient pour spouts to half-gallon cartons.
- We bought 80 used galvanized buckets with covers and spouts from a sugarmaker who had changed from traditional buckets to plastic pipeline.
- Worse still, because the button was on the side, you would naturally tilt the mug back, then open the spout, and the coffee volcano would erupt in your face.
- By holding the container over the opening of the spray tank or holding tank while rinsing, the rinse water can be captured as it drains from the container spout.
- The ‘fountain’ of Cacao is no baroque extravaganza but a simple vertical spout at the center of the pool of melted chocolate.
- Oftentimes, the only thing binding these teapots together is the fact that they each have a handle, spout and lid.
- There was steam hissing from a dozen little spouts and a thick green gas hid the floor.
Synonyms nozzle, lip, rose technical sparkler, spile 2A stream of liquid issuing from somewhere with great force. （急速喷出的）水流，水柱 the tall spouts of geysers 间歇性喷泉所喷出的高水柱。 Example sentencesExamples - After a quick ineffectual glance up at Anderson's house, she ran towards the driveway, splashing spouts of mud and rainwater up at her jeans.
Synonyms stream, spurt, squirt, spray, fountain - 2.1 The plume of water vapour ejected from the blowhole of a whale.
（鲸鱼从呼吸孔中喷出的）水柱 the spout of an occasional whale 偶尔游过的鲸鱼喷出的水柱。 Example sentencesExamples - When you're not scanning the ocean with your binoculars for a whale spout to the west, you can watch squirrels and birds scamper about to the east.
- Not long after this, the Jungfrau lowers boats again; they have seen the spout of a Fin Back, a whale impossible to capture due to its swimming speed, and mistake it for a Sperm Whale.
- It is dangerous to approach the thing too closely, but Ishmael hypothesizes that the spout is nothing but mist, the effect of a whale thinking about Eternity.
- It is last seen pursuing a wave that the men aboard have mistaken for a whale spout.
- But although the ship moves quickly, and the men are eager to find the whale making the spout, they are unable to see it again.
3A pipe or trough through which water may be carried away or from which it can flow out. 出水管，排水沟 Example sentencesExamples - Roofs are of corrugated iron drained by copper spouts and downpipes.
- Kids just love climbing along and jumping into water spouts, especially if the spouts are sometimes unpredictable.
- The arms of the double-row colonnade embrace a circular fountain with a brass spout cast from an old terra-cotta finial on the nearby Wrigley Building, one of Chicago's most cherished older buildings.
- Outcroppings on both sides of the building serve as drain spouts.
- 3.1 A sloping trough for conveying grain, coal, etc. to a lower level; a chute.
（由高向低的）运货斜槽，滑槽，滑道 - 3.2historical A lift in a pawnshop used to convey pawned items up for storage.
〈史〉（当铺中将抵押品传送到存放处的）升降车
verb spaʊtspaʊt [with object]1Send out (liquid) forcibly in a stream. 喷出（液体） volcanoes spouted ash and lava 火山喷发出火山灰和熔岩。 Synonyms propel, project, send forth, eject, deliver, discharge, fire, shoot, blast, catapult, launch, release, force, push, impel, ram - 1.1no object, with adverbial (of a liquid) flow out forcibly in a stream.
喷出（液体） blood was spouting from the cuts on my hand 鲜血从我手上的伤口涌出来。 Synonyms spurt, gush, spew, pour, stream, rush, erupt, surge, shoot, pump, squirt, spray, flow, issue disgorge, discharge, emit, belch forth - 1.2 (of a whale or dolphin) eject (water vapour and air) through its blowhole.
（鲸鱼，海豚）从呼吸孔中喷出水柱 Example sentencesExamples - The artist's contribution was another flag installation - the old South African flag and the ANC flag knotted together, placed in a fountain in the center of Paris that had dolphins and lions spouting water.
2Express (one's views or ideas) in a lengthy, declamatory, and unreflecting way. 滔滔不绝地讲，喋喋不休地说 he was spouting platitudes about our furry friends 他喋喋不休地讲着有关我们猫儿狗儿朋友的那一套老生常谈。 Example sentencesExamples - And the next time your friend spouts off about how smart he is at booking travel, suggest that there might be an opening in the reservation center of the Web service you're using.
- While the attendant is gone, Macbeth spouts off about the danger that Banquo poses to Macbeth's position as king.
- I think when you bump into people who like to spout off, you intuitively know it's coming from some inner hurt.
- It would be silly for me to contend that only professional economists should comment upon economics: I am not a professional economist myself, and I'll spout off on the subject at the drop of a hat.
- There's more than one occasion that will have most people smirking if not laughing while listening to the young Larry spout out terribly embarrassing or inappropriate statements.
- You are relegated to spouting opinion, and nothing more.
- With all this in mind, I wish I liked the film more, but even nine years on, Jesse and Celine still strike me as a pair of self-involved, faux intellectuals spouting empty platitudes.
- Will you please flail around like a zombie and spout gibberish in one of the worst fantasy movies ever?
- When you're speaking on behalf of other people you cease to be spouting your own views.
- He just spouts Marxist platitudes and courts his women in a thoroughly conventional way.
- How else would he have learned to spout such preposterous notions as universal love?
- Billy's father Stan is a quiet character, who nonetheless often spouts unintentionally humorous lines.
- However, I am underqualified to spout off about them in any depth.
- It may be that, as one character spouts, ‘All we ever really own in life is our pain,’ but you have to feel it to own it.
- I don't care if I'm spouting clichés, because that's the way it was.
- So when Andy got a chance to spout off about farming on the local NPR station, he jumped.
- Mr. Kudlow and the bulls can spout propaganda all they want, but it is not going to change underlying fundamentals.
- She spouts fountains of ridiculous psychobabble but has the firmest grasp on reality.
- Constantly bemoaning his lot, he spouts an endless supply of cruel put-downs, although few of them have much effect.
- On two continents, they incontinently spout platitudes, nonsense, tall tales, or pseudopoetic fantasies.
Synonyms hold forth, sound off, go on, talk at length, expatiate, pontificate, declaim, orate, rant, sermonize informal mouth off, speechify, spiel rare perorate
Phrasesput something up the spout dated, informal Pawn something. 〈英，非正式，旧〉典当东西
1informal No longer working or likely to be useful or successful. 失效的，报废的；成功无望 his petrol gauge is up the spout Example sentencesExamples - The publisher's ability to fill those orders is up the spout - they're having to ship directly from printer to bookshop.
- The internet access at work was up the spout almost all day.
- Some of them are half way through their course and their qualifications will go up the spout.
- Indeed, right now, there are tens of thousands of people unable to indulge in a little online flirting - and all because MSN's service is up the spout.
- Of course, the alternative is that the authorities turn a blind eye to drug use in brothels, and then your whole criminal justice system goes up the spout.
- Now, with the roads clogged, the trains up the spout and hot desking presenting a daily strain of competing for your actual workstation, the thought of staying at home to work has never been more appealing.
- Plan A went up the spout in eight minutes with Jason Price's seventh goal in six games since joining from Brentford, who thought he was a defender.
- By the time you have eventually caught one, appointments in town have been missed and one's careful planning for the day has gone up the spout.
Synonyms damaged, faulty, defective, unsound faulty, damaged, broken, defective, unsound 2informal (of a woman) pregnant. （女人）怀孕的 Example sentencesExamples - I hear Daly is now up the spout through her unholy union with Kaye.
- Turn again to this lot, and their sympathetic reaction to some self-proclaimed religious freak who has been put up the spout out of wedlock.
- ‘I'm up the spout so you'd better hike child benefit,’ were not the words used, which is a pity as it would have livened things up a little.
Synonyms expecting a baby, having a baby, with a baby on the way, having a child, expectant, carrying a child pregnant, expecting a baby, having a baby, with a baby on the way, having a child, expectant, carrying a child 3informal (of a bullet or cartridge) in the barrel of a gun and ready to be fired. （子弹，弹药筒）上了膛的 Example sentencesExamples - Fully loaded with its seven-round magazine, plus one up the spout, the P - 32 weighs a feathery 9.4 ounces, yet packs respectable firepower that can be unleashed with a pull of its DAO trigger.
- And keep the safety catch off and a round up the spout.
- Any time an armed officer perceived sufficient danger to draw the gun, he or she would chamber a round if there wasn't one up the spout already.
- There's a full mag and empty chamber, and I recommend one up the spout until we cross the river.
Derivativesnoun ˈspaʊtəˈspaʊdər A response one of my Zen teachers often used when confronted by an emptiness spouter was: ‘Does emptiness feel pain?’ Example sentencesExamples - What really interests me about rhetoric like this is that the spouter sees homosexuality as a vice; by that he is intimating that it is a very bad thing, and the choice of the weak, but also it is enjoyable.
- If you still prefer the soil-less method, I would encourage you to invest in a spouter that has multiple layers and trays with drainage holes.
adjective The big problem is that tendency of liquids coming out of a wide mouth from a full container to adhere to the sides and dribble off the bottom (like trying to slowly drain liquid from a full, spoutless stock pot). Example sentencesExamples - In a spoutless container, the blade extends from the top lip horizontally inside the container for up to two inches, then diagonally down to the inside of the container.
- It turns out, by the way, that the way to use the spoutless teapot is one of those important life lessons - you pick up the pot in one hand, pull the lid back slightly with the other, and pour with an outward appearance of confidence.
- What are those sets of handleless saucepans and of spoutless teapots?
- The use of the spoutless cup should continue for 3 weeks also.
OriginMiddle English (as a verb): from Middle Dutch spouten, from an imitative base shared by Old Norse spýta 'to spit'. spit from Old English: The root of the Old English word spit imitated the sound of someone spitting out saliva from their mouth. Spit in the sense of spit-roast is from another Old English word meaning ‘thin, pointed rod’, and the spit of land came from this. When we notice that someone looks exactly like someone else we can say that they are the spit of or the spitting image of the other person. This last phrase is an altered form of an earlier version, spit and image, early examples of which, from the 1600s, describe a man as being so like another that he could have been spat out of the latter's mouth. Another explanation is based on the idea of a person apparently being formed, perhaps by witchcraft, from the spit of another, so great is the similarity between them. Easier to explain is the expression spit and sawdust, used to describe an old-fashioned or unpretentious pub. This recalls the former practice of sprinkling the floor of the pub with a layer of sawdust, to soak up spillages in general and customers' spit in particular. Spout (Middle English) shares a root.
Rhymesabout, bout, clout, devout, doubt, down-and-out, drought, flout, gout, grout, knout, lout, mahout, misdoubt, nowt, out, out-and-out, owt, pout, Prout, right about, rout, scout, shout, snout, sprout, stout, thereabout, thereout, throughout, timeout, tout, trout, way-out, without Definition of spout in US English: spoutnounspaʊtspout 1A tube or lip projecting from a container, through which liquid can be poured. （盛液体的容器的）嘴 a teapot with a chipped spout 壶嘴有缺口的茶壶。 Example sentencesExamples - Oftentimes, the only thing binding these teapots together is the fact that they each have a handle, spout and lid.
- Previously, we packaged our product in a paperboard carton that had a pour spout with a screw-on cap.
- The ‘fountain’ of Cacao is no baroque extravaganza but a simple vertical spout at the center of the pool of melted chocolate.
- A good number of dairy manufacturers still use cartons, many of which sport vivid colors and graphics along with convenient closures and spouts.
- Paper gable-top cartons are filled and sealed with advanced equipment that uses extended shelf-life technology and has the capability of applying convenient pour spouts to half-gallon cartons.
- Worse still, because the button was on the side, you would naturally tilt the mug back, then open the spout, and the coffee volcano would erupt in your face.
- We bought 80 used galvanized buckets with covers and spouts from a sugarmaker who had changed from traditional buckets to plastic pipeline.
- Once the boxes are filled, a pour spout is installed on the top of the package.
- By holding the container over the opening of the spray tank or holding tank while rinsing, the rinse water can be captured as it drains from the container spout.
- There was steam hissing from a dozen little spouts and a thick green gas hid the floor.
- ‘Instead of a spout in the center, it is on the corner, making it easier to tip and pour, as opposed to lifting the bottle and turning it on its side to pour,’ says Ayers.
- This modern, round building does resemble an upturned funnel with spout mounting to the heavens.
- I found a used milker inflation tube fits snugly over a 1-quart plastic oil can and makes a pour spout for hard-to-reach transmissions on combines.
2A stream of liquid issuing from somewhere with great force. （急速喷出的）水流，水柱 the tall spouts of geysers 间歇性喷泉所喷出的高水柱。 Example sentencesExamples - After a quick ineffectual glance up at Anderson's house, she ran towards the driveway, splashing spouts of mud and rainwater up at her jeans.
Synonyms stream, spurt, squirt, spray, fountain - 2.1 The plume of water vapor ejected from the blowhole of a whale.
（鲸鱼从呼吸孔中喷出的）水柱 the spout of an occasional whale 偶尔游过的鲸鱼喷出的水柱。 Example sentencesExamples - When you're not scanning the ocean with your binoculars for a whale spout to the west, you can watch squirrels and birds scamper about to the east.
- It is dangerous to approach the thing too closely, but Ishmael hypothesizes that the spout is nothing but mist, the effect of a whale thinking about Eternity.
- But although the ship moves quickly, and the men are eager to find the whale making the spout, they are unable to see it again.
- It is last seen pursuing a wave that the men aboard have mistaken for a whale spout.
- Not long after this, the Jungfrau lowers boats again; they have seen the spout of a Fin Back, a whale impossible to capture due to its swimming speed, and mistake it for a Sperm Whale.
3A pipe or trough through which water may be carried away or from which it can flow out. 出水管，排水沟 Example sentencesExamples - The arms of the double-row colonnade embrace a circular fountain with a brass spout cast from an old terra-cotta finial on the nearby Wrigley Building, one of Chicago's most cherished older buildings.
- Outcroppings on both sides of the building serve as drain spouts.
- Roofs are of corrugated iron drained by copper spouts and downpipes.
- Kids just love climbing along and jumping into water spouts, especially if the spouts are sometimes unpredictable.
- 3.1 A sloping trough for conveying something to a lower level; a chute.
（由高向低的）运货斜槽，滑槽，滑道 - 3.2historical A lift in a pawnshop used to convey pawned items up for storage.
〈史〉（当铺中将抵押品传送到存放处的）升降车
verbspaʊtspout [with object]1Send out (liquid) forcibly in a stream. 喷出（液体） volcanoes spouted ash and lava 火山喷发出火山灰和熔岩。 Synonyms propel, project, send forth, eject, deliver, discharge, fire, shoot, blast, catapult, launch, release, force, push, impel, ram - 1.1no object, with adverbial (of a liquid) flow out forcibly in a stream.
喷出（液体） blood was spouting from the cuts on my hand 鲜血从我手上的伤口涌出来。 Synonyms spurt, gush, spew, pour, stream, rush, erupt, surge, shoot, pump, squirt, spray, flow, issue - 1.2 (of a whale or dolphin) eject (water vapor and air) through its blowhole.
（鲸鱼，海豚）从呼吸孔中喷出水柱 Example sentencesExamples - The artist's contribution was another flag installation - the old South African flag and the ANC flag knotted together, placed in a fountain in the center of Paris that had dolphins and lions spouting water.
2Express (one's views or ideas) in a lengthy, declamatory, and unreflecting way. 滔滔不绝地讲，喋喋不休地说 he was spouting platitudes about animal rights 他喋喋不休地讲着有关我们猫儿狗儿朋友的那一套老生常谈。 no object they like to spout off at each other Example sentencesExamples - It would be silly for me to contend that only professional economists should comment upon economics: I am not a professional economist myself, and I'll spout off on the subject at the drop of a hat.
- It may be that, as one character spouts, ‘All we ever really own in life is our pain,’ but you have to feel it to own it.
- When you're speaking on behalf of other people you cease to be spouting your own views.
- Billy's father Stan is a quiet character, who nonetheless often spouts unintentionally humorous lines.
- On two continents, they incontinently spout platitudes, nonsense, tall tales, or pseudopoetic fantasies.
- I think when you bump into people who like to spout off, you intuitively know it's coming from some inner hurt.
- You are relegated to spouting opinion, and nothing more.
- And the next time your friend spouts off about how smart he is at booking travel, suggest that there might be an opening in the reservation center of the Web service you're using.
- He just spouts Marxist platitudes and courts his women in a thoroughly conventional way.
- Mr. Kudlow and the bulls can spout propaganda all they want, but it is not going to change underlying fundamentals.
- Will you please flail around like a zombie and spout gibberish in one of the worst fantasy movies ever?
- However, I am underqualified to spout off about them in any depth.
- Constantly bemoaning his lot, he spouts an endless supply of cruel put-downs, although few of them have much effect.
- So when Andy got a chance to spout off about farming on the local NPR station, he jumped.
- She spouts fountains of ridiculous psychobabble but has the firmest grasp on reality.
- There's more than one occasion that will have most people smirking if not laughing while listening to the young Larry spout out terribly embarrassing or inappropriate statements.
- With all this in mind, I wish I liked the film more, but even nine years on, Jesse and Celine still strike me as a pair of self-involved, faux intellectuals spouting empty platitudes.
- While the attendant is gone, Macbeth spouts off about the danger that Banquo poses to Macbeth's position as king.
- I don't care if I'm spouting clichés, because that's the way it was.
- How else would he have learned to spout such preposterous notions as universal love?
Synonyms hold forth, sound off, go on, talk at length, expatiate, pontificate, declaim, orate, rant, sermonize
Phrases1informal No longer working, or unlikely to be useful or successful. 失效的，报废的；成功无望 Example sentencesExamples - Of course, the alternative is that the authorities turn a blind eye to drug use in brothels, and then your whole criminal justice system goes up the spout.
- The internet access at work was up the spout almost all day.
- By the time you have eventually caught one, appointments in town have been missed and one's careful planning for the day has gone up the spout.
- Indeed, right now, there are tens of thousands of people unable to indulge in a little online flirting - and all because MSN's service is up the spout.
- Plan A went up the spout in eight minutes with Jason Price's seventh goal in six games since joining from Brentford, who thought he was a defender.
- Now, with the roads clogged, the trains up the spout and hot desking presenting a daily strain of competing for your actual workstation, the thought of staying at home to work has never been more appealing.
- The publisher's ability to fill those orders is up the spout - they're having to ship directly from printer to bookshop.
- Some of them are half way through their course and their qualifications will go up the spout.
Synonyms damaged, faulty, defective, unsound faulty, damaged, broken, defective, unsound 2informal (of a woman) pregnant. （女人）怀孕的 Example sentencesExamples - ‘I'm up the spout so you'd better hike child benefit,’ were not the words used, which is a pity as it would have livened things up a little.
- I hear Daly is now up the spout through her unholy union with Kaye.
- Turn again to this lot, and their sympathetic reaction to some self-proclaimed religious freak who has been put up the spout out of wedlock.
Synonyms expecting a baby, having a baby, with a baby on the way, having a child, expectant, carrying a child pregnant, expecting a baby, having a baby, with a baby on the way, having a child, expectant, carrying a child by Friday, half his belongings were up the spout
OriginMiddle English (as a verb): from Middle Dutch spouten, from an imitative base shared by Old Norse spýta ‘to spit’. |