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# spout

«spout» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short tube or lip on a teapot, kettle or jug that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a spout, spouts); verb (spout, spouts, spouted, spouting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A spout is a short tube or lip on a teapot, kettle or jug that liquid is poured out of. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#m1)

2) A spout is a strong stream of liquid, such as a whale's spout of water and air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#m2)

3) To spout is to come or send out liquid in a strong stream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#m3)

4) (informal) To spout is to talk a lot, often saying silly or boring things: «He spouts nonsense». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#m4)

5) «Up the spout» (UK, informal) means ruined or wasted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, the spout is the part of the teapot or watering can you pour from. In nature lessons, a whale's spout is the cloud of breath it blows out of its blowhole. In stories, a fountain spouts water. Informally, people complain that someone «spouts rubbish». Phrases: «water spout», «spout nonsense», «up the spout».

### examples

- Tea poured from the spout of the teapot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#x1)
- The watering can has a long spout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#x2)
- We saw a whale's spout far out at sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#x3)
- Water spouted from the broken pipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#x4)
- The fountain spouts water high into the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#x5)
- He's always spouting nonsense about aliens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#x6)
- The rain made all our plans go up the spout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#x7)
- The fountains spouted forth the most delicious wine, and whoever bought a penny loaf at the baker's received six large buns, full of raisins, as a present. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/#x8)

### note

Noun is countable; verb is regular (spouted). «Spout nonsense» is informal and a bit rude about someone. «Waterspout» (one word) is also a tornado over water.

### In the corpora

- [Whales breathe through a blowhole on top of the head, and the spout is warm wet breath forming a cloud of mist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spout» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spout/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.