Spill

[spɪl]

解释:

(noun.) a sudden drop from an upright position; 'he had a nasty spill on the ice'.

(noun.) the act of allowing a fluid to escape.

(noun.) liquid that is spilled; 'clean up the spills'.

(verb.) reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail).

(verb.) reveal information; 'If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!'; 'The former employee spilled all the details'.

(verb.) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; 'spill the beans all over the table'.

(verb.) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities; 'shed tears'; 'spill blood'; 'God shed His grace on Thee'.

(verb.) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; 'spill the milk'; 'splatter water'.

(verb.) flow, run or fall out and become lost; 'The milk spilled across the floor'; 'The wine spilled onto the table'.

科琳录入--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

(n.) A slender piece of anything.

(n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.

(n.) A metallic rod or pin.

(n.) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.

(n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

(n.) A little sum of money.

(v. t.) To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

(v. t.) To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.

(v. t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.

(v. t.) To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.

(v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

(v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.

编辑:路易斯

同义词及近义词：

v. a. Shed, effuse, pour out.

手打:莫林

解释:

n. a small peg or pin to stop a hole: a thin strip of wood or twisted paper for lighting a candle a pipe &c.—n. Spill′ikin one of a number of small pieces of wood ivory &c. for playing a game with: the game played—also Spil′kin.

v.t. to allow to run out of a vessel: to shed: to waste: (coll.) to throw from a vehicle or the saddle: to empty the belly of a sail of wind for reefing.—v.i. to be shed: to be allowed to fall be lost or wasted:—pa.t. and pa.p. spilled spilt.—n. a fall a throw: a downpour.—ns. Spill′er; Spill′ing-line a rope for spilling the wind out of a square sail to facilitate reefing or furling; Spill′-stream a stream formed by overflow water a bayou; Spill′way a passage for overflow-water from a dam.

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