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Flow vs Spout - What's the difference?

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Flow is a synonym of spout.


In lang=en terms the difference between flow and spout

is that flow is to discharge excessive blood from the uterus while spout is to gush forth in a jet or stream.

As nouns the difference between flow and spout

is that flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts while spout is a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged.

As verbs the difference between flow and spout

is that flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another while spout is to gush forth in a jet or stream.

flow

English

Noun

  • A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
  • The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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  • The rising movement of the tide.
  • Smoothness or continuity.
  • The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
  • (psychology) The state of being at one with.
  • Menstruation fluid

    • Antonyms

    * (movement of the tide) ebb

    Related terms

    * antiflow * dark flow * ebb and flow * flowable * inflow * midflow * outflow * postflow * preflow * reflow * reflowable

    External links

    * (wikipedia "flow") *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move as a fluid from one position to another.
    • Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
    Tears flow from the eyes.
  • To proceed; to issue forth.
    • Wealth flows from industry and economy.
  • * Milton
    • Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
  • To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
    • The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
  • * Dryden
    • Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
  • To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
  • * Bible, Joel iii. 18
    • In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
  • * Prof. Wilson
    • the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
  • To hang loosely and wave.
    • a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
  • * A. Hamilton
    • the imperial purple flowing in his train
  • To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
    • The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
  • (computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
  • To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  • To cover with varnish.
  • To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

    • Anagrams

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    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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