Germinate vs Spout - What's the difference?
germinate | spout |
To sprout or produce buds.
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To cause to grow.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged
a stream of liquid
the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale
To gush forth in a jet or stream
(ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
* Creech
To speak tediously or pompously.
To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.
As verbs the difference between germinate and spout
is that germinate is to sprout or produce buds while spout is to gush forth in a jet or stream.As a noun spout is
a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged.germinate
English
Verb
- (Francis Bacon)
citation, passage=These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.}}
Anagrams
* ----spout
English
Noun
(en noun)- I dropped my china teapot, and its spout has broken.
Verb
(en verb)- Water spouts from a hole.
- The whale spouted .
- The mighty whale spouts the tide.
- Pray, spout some French, son.
- to spout a watch