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# waterspout

«waterspout» in Mova's school dictionary: **a column of water shooting up or out, such as a spout or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (waterspouts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A waterspout is a column of water shooting up or out, such as a spout or a whirling tube of water over the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterspout/#m1)

2) A waterspout is also a spout on a roof or cliff that pours out water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterspout/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a fountain or whirling column of water, sometimes magic, which rises up or gushes from rock

### examples

- Was it a waterspout, or a heavy sea rolling suddenly upon them? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterspout/#x1)
- Springs of water flowed out of the cliff in thick waterspouts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterspout/#x2)
- The gushing waterspout took many strange forms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waterspout/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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