spill
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.
- 2.
(intransitive)To spread out or fall out, as above.
Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.
- 3.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of a crowd or people within a crowd) To overflow out of a designated area.
The crowd spilled onto Maple Avenue.
- 4.
(transitive)To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- 5.
To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- 6.
(intransitive, obsolete)To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
This winter’s weather it waxeth cold, / And frost it freezeth on every hill, / And Boreas blows his blast so bold / That all our cattle are like to spill.
- 7.
(also, figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, also figurative) To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
- 8.
(transitive)To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- 9.
(obsolete, slang, transitive)To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
- 10.
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- 11.
(nautical) 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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(Australian, transitive)(transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Any thing that has been spilled; the resulting mess.
- 2.
A fall or stumble.
The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
- 3.
(archaic)Synonym of taper, a thin stick, long wick, etc. used to transfer flame.
Đồng nghĩa: taper
- 4.
A slender piece of anything.
- 5.
(mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- 6.
(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
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(obsolete)A small sum of money.
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(Australian)(Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
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From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (to kill, destroy, waste), from *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (to spoil, kill, murder), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (to sunder, split, rend, tear).