SPILL
\spˈɪl], \spˈɪl], \s_p_ˈɪ_l]\
Definitions of SPILL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table"
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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"
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the act of allowing a fluid to escape
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liquid that is spilled; "clean up the spills"
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reveal information; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details"
By Princeton University
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cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table"
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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"
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the act of allowing a fluid to escape
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liquid that is spilled; "clean up the spills"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
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A slender piece of anything.
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A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
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A metallic rod or pin.
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A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
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One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
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A little sum of money.
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To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
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To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
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To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
By Oddity Software
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A slender piece of anything, as a wooden pin, a small metal rod, etc.; a thin strip of paper or wood used for lighting a lamp, etc.; the act or state of overflowing, scattering, falling out, or running over; that which has overflowed or scattered, etc.
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To cause or permit to run over or fall out of a vessel; to cause to be scattered, wasted, lost, etc., through such action; to cause to pour forth, as blood.
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To run over, fall out, be scattered, etc.
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Spilled, spilt.
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Spilling.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To allow to run out of a vessel: to shed: to waste.
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To be shed: to be allowed to fall, be lost, or wasted:-pa.t. and pa.p. spilled, spilt.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Theodore Tilton
- American journalist, verse-writer, editor, lecturer; born in New York city, Oct. 2, 1835. was long known as editor on the Independent(1856-72). established Golden Age(newspaper), but retired from it after two years. 1883 went abroad, where remained. Besides numerous essays fugitive pieces, he has published: "The Sexton's Tale, and Other Poems"(1867); "Sanctum Sanctorum; or, An Editor's Proof Sheets"(1869); "Tempest-Tossed", a romance(1873); "Thou I"(1880); "Suabian Stories",(1882). Died 1907.