Spill
[spɪl]
Definition
(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'.
Typed by Corinne--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Shed, effuse, pour out.
Editor: Maureen
Definition
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.
Edited by Elsie
Examples
- Don't let it spill. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Once I had a spill in France when I attempted it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Bill, Bill, for dear God's sake, for your own, for mine, stop before you spill my blood! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He went into the cave with her and brought out the two sacks, carrying them held together in both arms so that nothing could spill from the slits. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In your laboratory experiments you may be unfortunate enough to spill acid on your body or clothing; if so, quickly apply ammonia. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He had the soldiers, those poor slaves who hire out their own blood and spill other folk's for money. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She hit me with the pillow and spilled the whiskey and soda. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Then, still holding the safeconduct, the control patrol came over, shouting, to the truck driver whose load was spilled. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I put my Saint Anthony back in the capsule, spilled the thin gold chain together and put it all in my breast pocket. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She felt she had fallen to the ground and was spilled out, like water on the earth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I opened the capsule and spilled him out into my hand. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If we could have packed the brute off with Georgiana;--but however; that's spilled milk. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is almost impossible to carry a lamp without spilling the oil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Pilar has taught me to roll them very well, tight and neat and not spilling. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- On the chimney were long spills for lighting them. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But you see it spills all over the drawer. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The donkeys fell down and spilt us over their heads occasionally, but there was nothing for it but to mount and hurry on again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I spilt half of what was in the glass, I said. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Sir Percival filled another glass from the decanter so awkwardly that he upset it and spilt all the wine over the table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Missis has spilt lots dat ar way, said Dinah, coming uneasily to the drawers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So you've been spilt, eh? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Referring to some event of the past, he said: Spilt milk doesn't interest me. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Norton