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Efflux vs Spout - What's the difference?

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Efflux is a related term of spout.


As nouns the difference between efflux and spout

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

As verbs the difference between efflux and spout

is that efflux is to run out while spout is to gush forth in a jet or stream.

efflux

English

Noun

(es)
  • The process of flowing out.
    • We all age through the efflux of time.
    The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
  • * 1832 , Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening , page 398,
    • It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux .
  • * 1988 , Elizabeth Sagey, Degree of closure in complwx segments'', Norval Smith, Harry van der Hulst (editors), ''Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes , Part 1, Linguistic Models 12a, page 176,
    • The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
  • * 2003 , Awtar Krishan, Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells'', R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan (editors), ''Advanced Flow Cytometry: Applications in Biological Research , page 55,
    • By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.
  • That which has flowed out.
    • the efflux of a boil
  • * Thomson
    • Prime cheerer, light! Efflux divine.
  • * 1963 , Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity , page 31,
    • Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes' following a double way, ascending and descending. From the earth and sea arise ' effluxes , some dry, others moist.

    Synonyms

    * (process of flowing out) outflow, effluxion, effluence * (that which has flowed out) outflow

    Verb

    (es)
  • To run out.
  • To flow forth.
  • (obsolete) To pass away.

    • 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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