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spill - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cause or allow (a substance) to run or fall out of a container.
- intransitive verb To scatter (objects) from containment.
- intransitive verb To shed (blood).
- intransitive verb To relieve the pressure of wind on (a sail).
- intransitive verb To cause or allow (wind) to be lost from a sail.
- intransitive verb To cause to fall.
- intransitive verb Informal To disclose (something previously unknown); divulge.
- intransitive verb To run or fall out of a container or containment.
- intransitive verb To come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily.
- intransitive verb To pour out or spread beyond limits.
- noun The act of spilling.
- noun An amount spilled.
- noun A fall, as from a horse.
- noun A spillway.
- noun A piece of wood or rolled paper used to light a fire.
- noun A small peg or rod, especially one used as a plug; a spile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A throw or fall, as from a saddle or a vehicle.
- noun A downpour; a flood.
- To inlay, diversify, or piece out with spills, splinters, or chips; cover with small patches resembling spills. In the quotation it denotes inlaying with small pieces of ivory.
- noun A splinter; a chip.
- noun A little bar or pin; a peg.
- noun A slip or strip of wood or paper meant for use as a lamplighter.
- noun A small peg or pin for stopping a cask; a spile: as, a vent-hole stopped with a spill.
- noun The spindle of a spinning-wheel.
- noun A trifling sum of money; a small fee.
- To destroy; kill; slay.
- To injure; mar; spoil; ruin.
- To waste; squander; spend.
- To suffer or cause to flow out or become lost; shed: used especially of blood, as in wilful killing.
- To suffer to fall or run out accidentally and wastefully, and not as by pouring: said of fluids or of substances in fine grains or powder, such as flour or sand: as, to
spill wine; to spill salt. - To let out; let leak out; divulge: said of matters concealed.
- Nautical, to discharge the wind from, as from the belly of a sail, in order to furl or reef it.
- To throw, as from the saddle or a vehicle; overthrow.
- Synonyms Splash, etc. See
slop . - To kill; slay; destroy; spread ruin.
- To come to ruin or destruction; perish; die.
- To be wasteful or prodigal.
- To run out and become shed or wasted.
- noun plural The thin layers or filaments of cinder in wrought-iron bars of poor quality due to imperfect working of the metal in squeezer, hammer, or roll treatment.
- To brace or stay a drift or adit with piles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
- noun A slender piece of anything.
- noun A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- noun A metallic rod or pin.
- noun A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
- noun (Mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- noun obsolete A little sum of money.
- transitive verb obsolete To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- transitive verb obsolete To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English spillen, to shed blood, to spill, from Old English spillan, to kill.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English spille.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Old English spillan.
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Examples
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"I think the spill is a game changer," said William Reilly, co-chairman of the president's oil spill commission tasked with examining policy for offshore drilling in light of what went wrong with the Macondo well.
Will the oil spill make a drop of difference regarding our attitudes? Steven Mufson 2010
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"I think the spill is a game changer," said William Reilly, co-chairman of the president's oil spill commission tasked with examining policy for offshore drilling in light of what went wrong with the Macondo well.
Will the oil spill make a drop of difference regarding our attitudes? Steven Mufson 2010
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Hurricanes are an act of nature, but this spill is an act of men.
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Some of Obama's top officials said Sunday that the spill is a potential catastrophe and defended the administration's response so far against complaints it has reacted too slowly.
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As Mother Jones environmental reporter Kate Sheppard recently noted: “The base fine for a spill is $1,100 a barrel, but it can go as high as $4,300 a barrel if a federal court determines that the spill was the result of gross negligence by the responsible party.”
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"I think the spill is a game changer," said William Reilly, co-chairman of the president's oil spill commission tasked with examining policy for offshore drilling in light of what went wrong with the Macondo well.
Will the oil spill make a drop of difference regarding our attitudes? Steven Mufson 2010
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A "spill" is when you have something, and then lose it - like water from a bucket, or oil from the Exxon Valdez.
Oil spill could sap appetite for Obama's offshore drilling plans 2010
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The incoming leader, who takes over Friday as CEO of a company struggling with the aftermath of a record oil spill, is ousting entrenched leaders, restructuring the organization and reassessing how employees earn their pay.
Rating BP's management shakeup Jena McGregor 2010
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The oil spill is a situation where you don't see what worries you the most.
Reflections from the Gulf of Mexico Leslie Tamura 2010
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Already, this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.
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Words with the same meaning
- Mystik tape
- Scotch tape
- accident
- acknowledge
- adhesive tape
- admit
- admit everything
- allow
- alluvion
- alluvium
- avow
- babble
- band
- bandage
- batten
- be indiscreet
- be unguarded
- belt
- betray
- betray a confidence
- blab
- blabber
- blurt
- blurt out
- brand
- broach
- bung
- butane lighter
- capsizal
- capsize
- cascade
- cataclysm
- cataract
- cellophane tape
- check valve
- cigarette lighter
- cloth tape
- cock
- come clean
- concede
- confess
- consume
- cop a plea
- cork
- cropper
- culbute
- deface
- deluge
- dive
- dribble
- drip
- drop
- engulf
- engulfment
- exhaust
- expend
- fall
- fascia
- faucet
- fillet
- firebrand
- flambeau
- flint
- flint and steel
- flood
- flop
- forced landing
- friction tape
- girdle
- give away
- grant
- header
- igniter
- inform
- inform on
- injure
- inlay
- inundate
- inundation
- lath
- leak
- leakage
- let
- let drop
- let fall
- let on
- let slip
- lid
- light
- lighter
- ligula
- ligule
- list
- lose
- mar
- masking tape
- open up
- out with it
- outpouring
- overbrim
- overfill
- overflow
- overflowing
- overrun
- overrunning
- overset
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- own
- own up
- peach
- peg
- perish
- pin
- plank
- plastic tape
- plead guilty
- plug
- plunge
- portfire
- pour out
- pour over
- pratfall
- rat
- reveal a secret
- revolution
- ribband
- ribbon
- run
- run over
- sea cock
- shed
- shred
- sing
- slat
- slip
- slop
- slosh
- somersault
- somerset
- sparker
- spatter
- spend
- spigot
- spike
- spile
- spill it
- spill out
- spill over
- spill the beans
- spillage
- spit it out
- splash
- spline
- splinter
- sprawl
- spray
- squab
- squeal
- stool
- stop
- stopgap
- stopper
- stopple
- strake
- strap
- strip
- strop
- stumble
- submerge
- submersion
- subversion
- swamp
- sweep
- taenia
- talk
- tap
- tape
- tape measure
- tapeline
- taper
- tattle
- tattle on
- tell all
- tell on
- tell secrets
- tell tales
- tell the truth
- the Deluge
- the Flood
- throw out
- ticker tape
- torch
- trip
- tumble
- turnover
- upset
- upturn
- use up
- valve
- washout
- waste
- whelm
- whelming
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Variants
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Words with the same terminal sound
- Bastille
- Belleville
- Bill
- Brazil
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- Gil
- Gill
- Hill
- Jill
- Lil
- Lille
- Mill
- Mille
- Phil
- Seville
- Sill
- Still
- Tamil
- Will
- bastille
- bil
- bill
- brazil
- brill
- chill
- dill
- distil
- distill
- downhill
- drill
- fil
- fill
- fril
- frill
- fulfill
- gill
- goodwill
- grill
- grille
- hill
- il
- ill
- instill
- jill
- kill
- knill
- krill
- lil
- lill
- mil
- mill
- nil
- nill
- overbill
- phil
- pil
- pill
- prill
- quill
- refill
- rill
- shill
- shrill
- sil
- sill
- skill
- stil
- still
- swill
- thill
- thrill
- til
- till
- trill
- twill
- until
- uphill
- wil
- will
- zill
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