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Effluence vs Spout - What's the difference?

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Effluence is a related term of spout.


As nouns the difference between effluence and spout

is that effluence is the process of flowing out while spout is a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged.

As a verb spout is

to gush forth in a jet or stream.

effluence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of flowing out.

    • Synonyms

    * (process of flowing out) efflux, effluxion, outflow

    spout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged
    • I dropped my china teapot, and its spout has broken.
  • a stream of liquid
  • the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To gush forth in a jet or stream
    • Water spouts from a hole.
  • (ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
    • The whale spouted .
  • * Creech
    • The mighty whale spouts the tide.
  • To speak tediously or pompously.
  • To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Pray, spout some French, son.
  • (slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.
    • to spout a watch

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